The Baseball Listicle Lineup for October 3-16, 2023

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

Issue #128

Latest edition of this 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.

Here are my favorite articles for the weeks October 3-16, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• A Tribute to Joey Votto's Time With the Cincinnati Reds, by Scott Flinchum, at

  Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter
  10/16/2023

• 5 'What's Going on Here?' Baseball Cards, by

  Wax Pack Gods
  10/15/2023

• Friday Rewind: The Hunger Games, by

  Joe Posnanski
  at
  JoeBlogs
  10/13/2023

• The Five Best Regular-Season Teams Were All Knocked out Early in the MLB Playoffs. Now What?, by

  Molly Knight
  at
  The Long Game
  10/13/2023

• Rush to Judgement, by G. Scott Thomas, at

  Baseball's Best (and Worst)
  10/11/2023

• 5 Terrifying Baseball Cards of Bespectacled Hurlers, by

  Wax Pack Gods
  10/8/2023

Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:

• Teams that came back after losing first 2 games, by Chad Thornburg, 10/16/2023

• Each organization's Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, 10/11/2023

• 13 free agents whose stock could rise in the postseason, by Mark Feinsand, 10/5/2023

• Here are the 2023 Triple-A All-Stars and award winners, by Rob Terranova, 10/4/2023

• 7 longest series losing skids in playoff history, by Sarah Langs, 10/4/2023

• 19 facts about the Twins snapping a 19-year postseason losing streak, by Manny Randhawa, 10/3/2023

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