Answers to pertinent questions throughout MLB as spring training nears
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of infants in Southern California never have seen the Dodgers win the World Series.
For the rest of us, thankfully, the drought is over. No longer must every spring training preview include the required references to 1988, and to Kirk Gibson.
But let's not do that 32-year wait again, OK? As the Dodgers prepare to defend their first World Series title in this century, and after they just signed Trevor Bauer for the highest annual salary in baseball history, can they become back-to-back champions?
No team has won the World Series in consecutive years since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998 to 2000. No National League team has won the World Series in consecutive years since the Cincinnati Reds in 1975-76, with a lineup that featured Hall of
