In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series after a 108-year drought. General manager Theo Epstein explained why: “We will always spend more than half the time talking about the person rather than the player….We would ask our scouts to provide three detailed examples of how these young players faced adversity on the field and responded to it, and three examples of how they faced adversity off the field. Because baseball is built on failure. The old expression is that even the best hitter fails seven out of ten times.”
