The Baseball Listicle Lineup for August 1-7, 2022
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past week
Issue #16
Third 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 1-7, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
A Salute To Vin Scully, by Dan Freedman, IBWAA Newsletter, 8/7/2022
The Trades that Made the Cards, Wax Pack Gods, 8/7/2022
Ten Who Missed: No. 3, Joey Votto, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/5/2022
Mourning the Loss of Vin Scully, by Molly Knight, The Long Game, 8/3/2022
Vin Scully, 1927-2022, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/3/2022
Every Prospect Traded By This Year's MLB Trade Deadline, by Benjamin Chase, IBWAA Newsletter, 8/3/2022
So Long, Soto, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/2/2022
The Power of Judge, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/2/2022
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:
He invented a cocktail ... and the knuckleball, by Michael Clair, 8/7/2022
Each team's biggest question after Trade Deadline, MLB.com writers, 8/7/2022
Breaking down accolades of inaugural Pirates HoF class, by Jim Lachimia, 8/7/2022
Do the Padres have the greatest trio in baseball history?, by Michael Clair, 8/2/2022
A deal unlike any other: 9 wild facts about Soto trade, by Sarah Langs 8/2/2022
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