The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 17-24, 2022

Issue #10

I’m starting a new feature here at Now Taking the Field—a weekly roundup of my favorite other 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.

So without further ado, here is the first installment for the week July 17-24, 2022. I’ll start with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Ten Who Missed: No. 5, Barry Larkin, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 7/22/2022

• Best Batters of 1986-1990, by G. Scott Thomas, Baseball’s Best (and Worst), 7/22/2022

• All-State Tournament: The Final Eight Previews, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 7/21/2022

• For One Magical Night, MLB Got it Right, by Molly Knight, The Long Game, 7/20/2022

• Strolling through a 1980s Baseball Card Show, by Wax Pack Gods, 7/18/2022

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:

• 7 players poised for a second-half surge, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, MLB.com (7/24/2022)

• Buy or sell? 8 teams have tough decisions to make, by Mark Feinsand, MLB.com (7/23/2022)

• 1 second half prediction for every team, by Will Leitch, MLB.com (7/23/2022)

• 10 young studs who could be 2023 all-stars, by Henry Palattella, MLB.com (7/22/2022)

• Here are our favorite picks from the draft, by Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, and Sam Dykstra, MLB.com (7/21/2022)

• 1 player from each team to watch before Trade Deadline, by MLB.com, 7/21/2022

• Here are 7 potential Juan Soto Trade Proposals, by MLB.com, 7/21/2022

• Hottest-hitting prospects — 1 for each team, by Alyssa Gomez, Tyler Maun, Stephanie Sheehan, MLB.com, 7/21/2022

• Midterm reports: Assessing each team at the break, by MLB.com, 7/20/2022

• Draft Day 1: Pick-by-pick rundown, analysis, by Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com (7/18/2022

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