The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 1-15, 2024
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past two weeks
Issue #188
The latest edition of a regular feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles, many though not all in the form of “listicles”—articles framed around a list of some sort or other. I continue to focus this for now on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself.
Here are my favorite articles for the weeks July 1-15, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
Rest of Season First Base Rankings, by
at 7/15/2024Rest of Season Second Base Rankings, by
at 7/15/2024Top 25 SPs for the Second Half: Midseason SP Report, by
7/15/20245 Baseball Cards that Power-Peaked Early, at
7/14/2024On Yankees Managers & Champions, by Paul Semendinger,
7/13/2024What to do about Paul Skenes?, by
at 7/12/2024- 7/12/2024
Rest of Season Catcher Rankings, by
at 7/10/2024The Most Famous Stolen Base In MLB History, by Mark Kolier,
7/10/2024Hot and cold infielders, pitchers with control, and doubles-hitting machines, by
at 7/9/2024Eight Major Leaguers Who Hail from Chicago's South Suburbs, by Paul M. Banks, at
7/8/2024Rest of Season SP Rankings, by
at 7/8/2024The Five Sweetest Swings of All Time, by
at 7/8/20245 Baseball Cards Playing in the Shadows of Their Brothers, at
7/7/2024What Willie really left behind… namely, rip-roaring arguments over the greatest living former player, by Jeff Kallman, at
7/5/2024The Best Players at Every Position, by
at 7/3/2024Second Half Breakout Players to Target, by
at 7/3/2024Random Cooperstown: 10 Obscure Objects to See in the Baseball Hall of Fame, by
7/3/2024Pennant-bound teams, All-Star fever, and true quality starts, by
at 7/2/2024Minor League Baseball All-First Half Team, by Benjamin Chase, at
7/1/2024
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:
Rice, Rece, Schwarber and more highlight wild week of dinger data, by Sarah Langs, 7/12/2024
Answering all your burning Trade Deadline questions, by Mark Feinsand, 7/12/2024
Surprise! A look at 10 of the most unlikely 2024 All-Stars, by Manny Randhawa, 7/10/2024
Each team's best Draft pick of the past 10 years, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, 7/10/2024
Who are the youngest All-Stars in MLB history?, by Cole Jacobson, 7/9/2024
13 amazing stats and facts about this year's All-Star teams, by Sarah Langs, 7/8/2024
Active players with the most All-Star selections, by Manny Randhawa, 7/7/2024
Young Nats, five 100-win teams (!?) among top storylines, by Will Leitch, 7/5/2024
16 trade candidates whose stock is rising, by Mark Feinsand, 7/5/2024
Examining the trade market for starting pitching this season, by Mark Feinsand, 7/3/2024
Here's the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list, by Sam Dykstra, 7/1/2024
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