The Baseball Listicle Lineup for June 1-15, 2024

Issue #184

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 1-15, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Do more stolen bases assure winning baseball?, by Andrew Sharp, at 6/15/2024

• Welcome to Death Watch Season, by at 6/14/2024

• A Look at Recent Bad Luck Hitters, by at 6/13/2024

• Leaders for the Cy, the worst pitching staffs, and battling in Florida, by at 6/11/2024

• 5 Franchise-Changing Baseball Cards, at , 6/9/2024

• The New York Twins (or Something Like That), by Paul Semendinger, at 6/8/2024

• Scott Boras' Rough Off-Season Looks Even Worse Now, by at 6/7/2024

• Free Friday: A New Baseball Fan's Five-Point Plan, by at 6/7/2024

• Negro League Stats Added To MLB Record: A Complex, Landmark Decision, by Mark Kolier, at 6/5/2024

• May’s best (and worst), the hottest teams, and reaching four digits in RBIs, by at 6/4/2024

• Lemmie Tell You About Miller's End in 5 Baseball Cards, at 6/2/2024

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

• The greatest father-son duos in MLB history, by Andrew Simon, 6/15/2024

• Father's Day memories: One for each team, by MLB.com writers, 6/15/2024

• 7 under-the-radar All-Star candidates in each league, by David Adler, 6/15/2024

• Yanks-Dodgers anti-slugfest, a Royal rally and other wild stats, by Sarah Langs, 6/14/2024

• D-Rob's day (again): K's of Dodgers' star trio key win, by Kennedi Landry, 6/14/2024

• What are the chances last year's All-Star starters can repeat?, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 6/13/2024

• 10 potential trade chips whose stock is rising, by Mark Feinsand, 6/12/2024

• Mookie, Tatis, Harper poised to make some All-Star history, by Sarah Langs, 6/11/2024

• Will we see a rare Cy Young finish in 2024?, by Thomas Harrigan, 6/11/2024

• Ranking the most compelling first-time ASG starter candidates, by Brian Murphy, 6/9/2024

• 6 ways the Paul Skenes-Jared Jones duo stands out, by Thomas Harrigan, 6/9/2024

• Picking an All-Star lineup of Negro Leaguers with official MLB stats, by Thomas Harrigan, 6/8/2024

• Breaking down the toughest decisions on the All-Star Ballot, by Will Leitch, 6/7/2024

• NL contenders, London and a knuckler highlight 5 Fascinations, by Will Leitch, 6/7/2024

• New team, new outlook? 6 players who might benefit from a change of scenery, by Mark Feinsand, 6/7/2024

• Each team's most deserving All-Star, by MLB.com writers, 6/6/2024

• Top performers from '23 Draft -- one from each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 6/5/2024

• 7 big All-Star voting storylines to follow, by Thomas Harrigan, 6/5/2024

• Rookie of the Year poll: Imanaga strong in NL, but new favorite in AL, by Jason Foster, 6/4/2024

• 10 questions to answer before Trade Deadline, by Mark Feinsand, 6/2/2024