The Baseball Listicle Lineup for Sep 21 - Sep 28, 2022
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past week
Issue #32
Tenth edition of this weekly 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 Sep 21-28, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
Here Comes the Judge, by Joe Posnanski, 9/27/2022
5 Baseball Cards Show Off Their Fall Fashion, by Wax Pack Gods, 9/25/2022
A Great Yankee…One of the Best, Ever!, by Paul Semendinger, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 9/23/2022
The Triple Dud, by Joe Posnanski, 9/22/2022
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com this past week:
These are the Statcast standout players in each category, by Andrew Simon, 9/26/2022
Every team's player eyeing a rebound in 2023, by Will Leitch, 9/26/2022
11 rookies poised to electrify on postseason stage, by David Adler, 9/26/2022
7 potential 50-homer hitters not named Judge, by Will Leitch, 9/24/2022
Pujols’ 700 home runs by the numbers, by Andrew Simon, 9/24/2022
Who's the best player from Venezuela?, MLB.com roundtable, 9/22/2022
22 bonkers stats from the ’22 season, by Anthony Castrovince, 9/22/2022
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