Sports fans love an underdog whatever the case, be it March Madness, any given Saturday for college football, all the way to the MLB postseason. Unless you are a fan of the Miami Marlins or another small market and/or low payroll MLB club waiting on pins and needs for the sweet deliverance of upcoming CBA negotiations in 2026. Because if that's you, then you need to think long and hard about taking as chalk an approach to the 2025 MLB playoffs as possible. The 2025 Dodgers might not have ended up ever looking like a threat to the 2001 Seattle Mariners for regular season win totals...but they are still expected to finish more successfully overall. That's the despair fans of the small payroll clubs that would benefit greatly from official salary constraints want fueling those CBA negotiations.