The Baseball Listicle Lineup for Nov 26 - Dec 9, 2022
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past two weeks
Issue #50
Latest edition of this regular feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles. Somewhat similar to my own writing topics, I tend to like “listicles” the best—articles that are either written in list form or that make heavy use of lists and charts of data, players, rankings, etc. I’ll of course include other favorite baseball articles in these weekly round-ups, but you’ll find most will be of that type. I’ll especially be focusing on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself, but I sometimes do read articles from other sources too.
Here are my favorite articles for the week Nov 26 - Dec 9, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
Next Contemporary Baseball Player Ballot Will Definitely Be Different, by Dan Schlossberg, second article at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 12/9/2022
What Happened at the Winter Meetings, What Didn’t and What it Means for Los Angeles, by Howard Cole, at Off Base with Howard Cole, 12/8/2022
The Yankees Did What They Had to Do, by Joe Posnanski, at JoeBlogs, 12/7/2022
Rising To the Top, by G. Scott Thomas, at Baseball’s Best (and Worst), 12/6/2022
MVPs and the Hall of Fame, by Joe Posnanski, at JoeBlogs, 12/5/2022
5 Cheap Vintage Hobby Stocking Stuffers, by Wax Pack Gods, 12/4/2022
The Crime Dog's in the Hall of Fame!, by Joe Posnanski, at JoeBlogs, 12/4/2022
The best, the worst, the weirdest of 2022 times, by Jeff Kallman, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 12/2/2022
A Different Perspective, by G. Scott Thomas, at Baseball’s Best (and Worst), 11/29/2022
5 Traded Cards Burned Through Winter, by Wax Pack Gods, 11/27/2022
Reviewing 2012 Top 10 Prospects, by BallPark Buzz, 11/26/2022
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:
Every move of the 2022-23 offseason, tracked, by MLB.com writers, updated regularly
Biggest single-season win gains in divisional era, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 12/9/2022
Hot Stove shakes up Top 10 starting pitcher duos, by David Adler, 12/8/2022
1 thing each team can accomplish at Winter Meetings, by MLB.com writers, 12/5/2022
Here is the star-studded 2022 All-MLB Team, by Paul Casella, 12/5/2022
8 player-team reunions that would be fun to see, by Will Leitch, 12/3/2022
13 players who might benefit from change of scenery, by Anthony Castrovince, 11/30/2022
And finally, if you are interested in daily, yet quick-read, baseball-related email newsletters, you can’t go wrong with these three:
Baseball Reference Newsletter - recaps of yesterday's top performers, a look ahead at today's games, unique milestones and Stathead spotlights, and "On This Day" and "Born This Day" lists.
MLB Morning Lineup - links to the latest articles, videos, and more from MLB
Horsehide Trivia - a challenging baseball trivia question each day, from D. Bruce Brown