Dave Roberts expresses more excitement than ever before after back-to-back titles?!?! originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Last October, the Los Angeles Dodgers became the eighth team ever to repeat as World Series champions after a grueling seven-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays. They won their ninth championship in franchise history and third in six years.
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Even with all of the success during the mid-way point of the decade, manager Dave Roberts is still more excited about what’s ahead compared to their past victories.
“I’m more excited about this year than I was last year or the year prior… Guys are still hungry, and that’s scary for the rest of the league,” Roberts stated.
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If this is truly the case in Los Angeles, that is indeed a scary sight for the rest of the league, because ideally, it is very difficult to believe a team that has consistently been in the mix for a title is hungrier than ever, but when you look at the improvement they continue to make to the team every offseason the competitive nature is obviously still there.
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Last season, long-time Chicago Cub Kyle Tucker signed a four-year deal with the Dodgers after already hitting 20+ home runs and having multiple MVP candidates and future Hall of Famers, including Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, and Mookie Betts.
If the Dodgers win another World Series this season, they would join an even more elite list of teams to three-peat, becoming the third team ever to do so and the first since the New York Yankees did so from 1998-2000.
It was already going to be tough to knock the Dodgers off their pedestal. Still, with Roberts making a statement like that, it makes it even harder to defeat them as they are a championship team continuing to act like they have a chip on their shoulder.