The Baseball Listicle Lineup for October 1-31, 2024
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past month.
Issue #203
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.
Rather than the past two weeks (as I usually cover), this time I’m including the entire month of October. The vast majority of baseball articles written recently were rightly focused on the day-to-day excitement of the 2024 playoffs. So looking beyond those, here are my other favorite articles for the weeks October 1-31, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
What is Bat Speed Useful For?, by
at 10/30/20245 Baseball Cards that Can't Forget October, at
10/27/2024Ex-Marlins Populate World Series Stage, by Sean Millerick at
10/26/2024A Hall of Fame Tour Like No Other!, by
at 10/25/2024Red Flag Hitters for 2025 - High Strikeout Rates, by
at 10/24/2024Fernando, by
at 10/23/20248 Baseball Cards that Do-Si-Do Through History, at
10/20/2024These Shortstops Should Be In Baseball Hall of Fame, by Paul Semindinger at
10/19/2024Box-office magic, by
at 10/18/2024A Brief History of Bay Area Major League Baseball Catchers, by Rich Campbell at
10/14/20245 Baseball Cards to Light Up Your October Skies, at
10/13/2024Players Eras Committee Should Pick For Pre-1980 Ballot, by Dan Schlossberg at
10/11/2024How bad were the White Sox, really?, by @G. Scott Thomas at
10/9/2024Unpacking Pete Rose's Complicated Legacy, by Mark Kolier at
10/9/20245 Baseball Cards that Gave Up the Hits, at
10/6/2024'I’m the Biggest Winner in the History of Sports', by
at 10/1/2024
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:
Left with bitter taste, five things Yanks need to do to get back here, by Will Leitch, 10/31/2024
Here are the top qualifying offer candidates, by Thomas Harrigan, 10/31/2024
Every time MVPs faced off in the World Series, by Brian Murphy, 10/31/2024
The Dodgers got their ring. Who needs one the most in 2025?, by Will Leitch, 10/31/2024
All of the 2024-2025 free agents, position by position, by MLB.com writers, 10/31/2024
Here were the top 10 moments of an epic postseason, by Anthony Castrovince, 10/31/2024
Predicting who will receive, accept qualifying offers, by Mike Petriello, 10/29/2024
Ranking the top 10 hitters in the World Series, by Andrew Simon, 10/24/2024
How many stars from '24 World Series will be HOFers?, by Anthony Castrovince, 10/24/2024
Who makes the all-time World Series MVP team?, by Jason Foster, 10/23/2024
Mind-boggling stats and facts about historic Yanks-Dodgers World Series, by Sarah Langs, 10/23/2024
Ranking World Series players based on prospect hype, by Jim Callis, 10/22/2024
Every organization's Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 10/17/2024
MLB Pipeline's 2024 All-Rookie Team, by Jonathan Mayo, 10/15/2024
Watch out for these 10 rookies in the postseason, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 10/1/2024