The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 1-15, 2024

Issue #188

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

• Rest of Season First Base Rankings, by at 7/15/2024

• Rest of Season Second Base Rankings, by at 7/15/2024

• Top 25 SPs for the Second Half: Midseason SP Report, by 7/15/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Power-Peaked Early, at 7/14/2024

• On Yankees Managers & Champions, by Paul Semendinger, 7/13/2024

• What to do about Paul Skenes?, by at 7/12/2024

• Another MVP for Ohtani?, at 7/12/2024

• Rest of Season Catcher Rankings, by at 7/10/2024

• The Most Famous Stolen Base In MLB History, by Mark Kolier, 7/10/2024

• Hot and cold infielders, pitchers with control, and doubles-hitting machines, by at 7/9/2024

• Eight Major Leaguers Who Hail from Chicago's South Suburbs, by Paul M. Banks, at 7/8/2024

• Rest of Season SP Rankings, by at 7/8/2024

• The Five Sweetest Swings of All Time, by at 7/8/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards Playing in the Shadows of Their Brothers, at 7/7/2024

• What Willie really left behind… namely, rip-roaring arguments over the greatest living former player, by Jeff Kallman, at 7/5/2024

• The Best Players at Every Position, by at 7/3/2024

• Second Half Breakout Players to Target, by at 7/3/2024

• Random Cooperstown: 10 Obscure Objects to See in the Baseball Hall of Fame, by 7/3/2024

• Pennant-bound teams, All-Star fever, and true quality starts, by at 7/2/2024

• Minor League Baseball All-First Half Team, by Benjamin Chase, at 7/1/2024

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

• Rice, Rece, Schwarber and more highlight wild week of dinger data, by Sarah Langs, 7/12/2024

• Answering all your burning Trade Deadline questions, by Mark Feinsand, 7/12/2024

• Surprise! A look at 10 of the most unlikely 2024 All-Stars, by Manny Randhawa, 7/10/2024

• Each team's best Draft pick of the past 10 years, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, 7/10/2024

• Who are the youngest All-Stars in MLB history?, by Cole Jacobson, 7/9/2024

• 13 amazing stats and facts about this year's All-Star teams, by Sarah Langs, 7/8/2024

• Active players with the most All-Star selections, by Manny Randhawa, 7/7/2024

• Young Nats, five 100-win teams (!?) among top storylines, by Will Leitch, 7/5/2024

• 16 trade candidates whose stock is rising, by Mark Feinsand, 7/5/2024

• Examining the trade market for starting pitching this season, by Mark Feinsand, 7/3/2024

• Here's the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list, by Sam Dykstra, 7/1/2024