FORT MYERS — The opportunity for the Red Sox to win the World Series is as ripe as it can be.
Just look around the American League.
Skim past the half-dozen teams that don’t look competitive and focus on the few threatening foes.
The defending champion Houston Astros are the best team on paper, but they must contend with the World Series hangover after playing 18 postseason games and into November. The hangover is real. No team has won back-to-back titles since 2000, when the New York Yankees won their third straight.
The 2014 Red Sox felt the hangover.