Texas Rangers Eyeing World Series Repeat Run | Deadspin.com

No team has successfully defended their World Series championship since the New York Yankees won three straight titles from 1998 to 2000. 

Since then, the 2009 Phillies are the only team to reach the World Series a year after winning it all, but the Phillies fell to the Yankees in that year’s Fall Classic.

With that in mind, the Texas Rangers faced long odds of running it back before the season even…