Bruce Bochy: 3 Keys To Rangers Repeat

ARLINGTON — The last time an MLB team won back-to-back World Series championships, Evan Carter had yet to be born.

Carter, the Texas Rangers' rising star who helped the club win its first World Series title four months ago, was featured in a brief and unassuming social media post in which he says hello to fans from Globe Life Field, says he's excited about spring training, and signs off with "Let's run it back."

That's the plan, but it won't be easy.

It was 2000, and Bruce Bochy was managing the San Diego Padres. The New York Yankees, the last team to repeat, won their third consecutive championship.

"It's not easy to do," said Bochy, who has won four World Series titles, including three with the San Francisco Giants and 2023 with the Rangers. "It took a lot of years to get this one, and they've had some really good teams. They've been very close here. But now the challenge is to make sure that guys stay hungry, and I don't have any doubt about that. We saw it last year, how tough they were, and the resiliency of this team."

The competitive edge, or hunger, as Bochy called it, is only part of the equation for a team to repeat. Bochy won three titles in five seasons (2010, 2012, and 2014) with the Giants but never in back-to-back seasons.