The Los Angeles Dodgers are among the most envious teams in Major League Baseball, as the club routinely boasts one of the league’s best front offices and farm systems, in addition to a plethora of financial resources at their disposal.
Perhaps the Dodgers’ biggest competition in all three of those departments are the Chicago Cubs, who under the guidance of president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, have replenished its Minor League talent while simultaneously putting together a winning product that reached the finish line in 2016 — ending a 108-year World Series drought.
Todd Ricketts, a board of director for the Cubs, believes the Dodgers are the club’s biggest adversary to win another championship, per Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune:
For the past two seasons, the Dodgers and Cubs have separated themselves as arguably the two best teams in the National League.