MESA, Ariz.— No baseball team has repeated as World Series champions since the New York Yankees reigned from 1998 through 2000.
There are reasons, starting with the fact that a title-winning team’s offseason is so short.
Jon Lester, a three-time World Series champion, thinks the Chicago Cubs have a few legs up on the situation. Young legs.
“The biggest positive on our side is we have so many young guys who aren’t banged up, who don’t have a lot of innings or at-bats,” said Lester, who helped Boston to titles in 2007 and 2013, as well as helping to anchor the Cubs’ rotation last year.