Winning back-to-back World Series championship is not easy. Just ask half of the past 24 World Series winners which haven’t even made the playoffs the following season.
However, this offseason has set the Los Angeles Dodgers up for a potential title run and, on paper, they should win.
“It’s extremely difficult to win a World Series and it’s even more difficult to repeat as champion,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said to the Orange County Register. “During our offseason conversations as a staff, we agreed that the two biggest factors — beyond obviously how difficult it is to win — is, one, there is a kind of complacency that can consume a group after winning a World Series and, two, you have usually had to red-line your pitching in October in order to win those 11 games.