The Baseball Listicle Lineup for August 15-22, 2022
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past week
Issue #20
Fifth 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 August 15-22, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
Some Positive Perspectives On An Otherwise Dreary Cubs Season, by Brian Harl, IBWAA Newsletter, 8/22/2022
My Favorite Pennant Races, Card by Card, by Wax Pack Gods, 8/21/2022
Ten Who Missed: No. 1, Juan Marichal, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/19/2022
Best Batters of 2006-2010, by G.Scott Thomas, Baseball’s Best (and Worst), 8/19/2022
Let’s Make the National Pastime More… National, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/17/2022
Beyond those specific articles, be sure to check out the various baseball-related Substacks that I recommend.
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com this past week:
One thing we got wrong for each team in 2022, by MLB.com authors, 8/22/2022
The '23 free-agent class is going to be loaded, by Will Leitch, 8/20/2022
Watch for these milestones during the final stretch of 2022, by MLB.com authors, 8/18/2022
Here is the best player at every age, from 21-42, by Will Leitch, 8/18/2022
How the Orioles turned their franchise around, by Mike Petriello, 8/17/2022
1 difference-maker for each contender down the stretch, by Anthony Castrovince, 8/16/2022
Here are all of our No. 1 overall prospects, ranked, by Jonathan Mayo, 8/16/2022
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