The Baseball Listicle Lineup for December 16-31, 2023

Issue #150

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 December 16-31, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• 5 Baseball Cards at the End of the Road, by 12/31/2023

• Five Memorable Players Born on New Year's Day, by Paul Semendinger at 12/30/2023

• Cody’s Confusing Case, by at 12/30/2023

• Baseball after Bill James, by W. H. Johnson at 12/292023

• My Ultimate Baseball Hall of Fame Survey, by at 12/27/2023

• Those Major League Baseball Lost In 2023, by Matthew Veasey at 12/27/2023

• 5 Christmas (Baseball) Cards to Help You Warm Up for Santa, by 12/24/2023

• Dodgers Spend One Billion Dollars On Two Japanese Superstars, Internet Throws Fit, by at 12/22/2023

• And Even MORE Reasons To Enshrine Andruw Jones Without Delay, by Dan Schlossberg at 12/22/2023

• Dodgers Spending Like Drunken Sailors. But Is There a Method to the Madness?, by at 12/22/2023

• Crown Jewels: A Rumored (and Shot Down) Trade, New Royals Projections and the Roster, by at 12/22/2023

• A Brief History of Bay Area MLB Second Basemen, by Rich Campbell at 12/18/2023

• 5 Great Baseball Cards of Good Players on Bad Teams, by 12/17/2023

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

• Here is one prediction for every team in '24, by MLB.com writers, 12/31/2023

• Each team's most likely breakout star for '24, by MLB.com writers, 12/30/2023

• These batting stances are truly unforgettable, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/30/2023

• Feinsand: Explaining my 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, by Mark Feinsand, 12/30/2023

• Remembering those the baseball world lost in 2023, by Will Leitch, 12/29/2023

• 1 incredible 2023 stat for every team, by Sarah Langs, 12/28/2023

• These are the best debuts in recent MLB history, by Brent Maguire and Theo DeRosa, 12/28/2023

• Each team's best individual performance of 2023, by Theo DeRosa, Thomas Harrigan, Brent Maguire, 12/28/2023

• Predicting the major award winners for 2024, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/28/2023

• Prospect debuts we're excited to see in '24 -- one for each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 12/28/2023

• The 7 players we're most excited to watch in 2024, by MLB.com writers, 12/27/2023

• Who's the greatest player to suit up for each franchise?, by Andrew Simon, 12/27/2023

• 8 prospect-related predictions for 2024, by Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo, 12/26/2023

• Will these strong finishes carry over into 2024?, by Thomas Harrigan, 12/26/2023

• The top milestones that were reached in 2023, by Sarah Langs, 12/25/2023

• 7 players who should get another shot at Cooperstown, by MLB.com writers, 12/25/2023

• The forgotten teams of 2024 Hall of Fame candidates, by Brian Murphy, 12/24/2023

• Reviewing 10 predictions we got wrong this year, by MLB.com writers, 12/24/2023

• The unexpected breakout stars of 2023, by Will Leitch, 12/23/2023

• Widening of runner's lane to 1B among rule changes for '24, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/21/2023

• The best players in '23 without any awards, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/21/2023

• These 10 players are All-MLB sleeper picks in '24, by Manny Randhawa, 12/17/2023

• Here are your 2023 All-MLB First and Second Team winners, by Paul Casella, 12/16/2023

• 5 under-the-radar FA relievers with closer potential, by David Adler, 12/16/2023

Did you know? I wrote a book with the same title as this Substack newsletter / blog: Now Taking the Field: Baseball’s All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises. It was published in early 2019, by ACTA Sports, the publisher of the annual Bill James Handbook and other popular titles. You can learn more about it at www.NowTakingTheField.com, or buy directly at Amazon and other booksellers.