that's because the Guardians are the new A's/Rays in that they don't spend outside of J-Ram and still win.
When did the AL Central become the poverty division?
Somehow the white Sox have never spent in free agency. They must be a small market team. Detroit stopped spending after trading away Verlander and let Miggy waste away and the Twins, well we are just a lowly mid to small market team who lost some millions in a cable TV deal so they couldn't bother to even keep rhe payroll the same because they'd just be too broke I guess