The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 24-31, 2022

My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past week

Issue #12

Second round of the new feature here at Now Taking the Field—a weekly roundup of my favorite other baseball articles (see first one from last Sunday here.) 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 July 24-31, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

Ten Who Missed: No. 4, Minnie Miñoso (7/29/2022)

Ten Who Missed: No. 4, Minnie Miñoso

Sealing the Deal, by G. Scott Thomas, Baseball's Best (and Worst) (7/26/2022)

Sealing the deal

Buck, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs (7/24/2022)

Buck

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:

• The 10 strangest trades in MLB history, by Anthony Castrovince, MLB.com (7/31/2022)

• 5 big trades that won't happen (but should), MLB.com (7/30/2022)

• Judge becomes 2nd-fastest to 200 HRs with No. 42, by Bryan Hoch, MLB.com (7/30/2022)

• Here are your NL and AL All-Stars for July, by Will Leitch, MLB.com (7/30/2022)

• Ohtani closing in on another legend's record, by Rhett Bolinger, MLB.com (7/29/2022)

• Here's one trade chip for every club, by Mark Feinsand, MLB.com (7/26/2022)

• 9 options for a power bat at the deadline, by Mike Petriello, MLB.com (7/25/2022)

• 15 in-season trades that led to the World Series, by Mark Feinsand, MLB.com (7/25/2022)

• Ranking all 8 playoff races, by Will Leitch, MLB.com (7/24/2022)

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