The Baseball Listicle Lineup for June 16-30, 2024

Issue #186

The latest edition of a 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 June 16-30, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• 5 Dave Roberts Baseball Cards to Celebrate Dave Robertseseses, at 6/30/2024

• How Rookie Tigers are Faring, by Joe Underhill at 6/28/2024 (first article)

• Braves, Phils Should Dominate NL All-Star Staff, by Dan Schlossberg at 6/28/2024 (second article)

• Chasing a trophy, worrying about an offensive drought, and posting 20 wins, by at 6/25/2024

• Midway Baseball Extravaganza (AL Edition), by at 6/25/2024

• Midway Baseball Extraganza (NL Edition), by at 6/24/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Sneaked into the Batting Race, at 6/23/2024

• Five Worst First-Round Draft Picks By Dodgers, by Paul Banks at 6/21/2024

• The Five Best First-Rounders In Dodgers History, by Paul Banks at 6/20/2024

• My Choice for Greatest Living Ballplayer…, by at 6/20/2024

• Evaluating Pitchers in Smaller Samples, by at 6/19/2024

• “Isn’t Willie Mays Wonderful?”, by at 6/19/2024

• Getting the jump, wearing out a bullpen, and smacking 500 homers, by at 6/18/2024

• Examining Batted Ball Data to Find Impending Power Breakouts, by at 6/18/2024

• Injuries Decimating the National Pastime in 2024, by Matthew Veasey at 6/17/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Made Us Chase Them, at 6/16/2024

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

• The best, wildest (Grimace!) and everything in between from June, by Will Leitch, 6/30/2024

• How division leaders entering July have fared, by Sarah Langs, 6/30/2024

• 9 questions facing NL clubs ahead of Trade Deadline, by Mark Feinsand, 6/30/2024

• There are now 22 pitchers who have defeated all 30 teams, by Theo DeRosa, Manny Randhawa, and Brent Maguire, 6/28/2024

• Good vibes in SD? Vlad Jr. on the move? Here are 5 fascinations in MLB, by Will Leitch, 6/27/2024

• 30 sluggers who we want to see in 2024 HR Derby, by Andrew Simon, 6/27/2024

• MLB execs analyze best trade chips for 5 likely sellers, by Mark Feinsand, 6/26/2024

• Hottest hitting prospects right now -- one for each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 6/26/2024

• A look at storylines that will dominate 2nd half, by Will Leitch, 6/26/2024

• 13 top trade candidates and their potential fits, by Mark Feinsand, 6/24/2024

• 9 intriguing trade candidates on postseason bubble teams, by Thomas Harrigan, 6/22/2024

• From All-Star snub to MVP in the same year? It can happen, by Jason Foster, 6/22/2024

• Lewis' scorching start, Schwarber's June boom and other wild stats, by Sarah Langs, 6/21/2024

• .400 watch? Return of the underdogs? Here are 5 fascinations in baseball, by Will Leitch, 6/21/2024

• Prospects ready to climb the ladder -- one from each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 6/19/2024

• Judge's 40-game stretch rates among all-time greats, by Mike Petriello, 6/18/2024