The Baseball Listicle Lineup for September 16-30, 2024

Issue #200

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 September 16-30, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Different Year, Same Results, at 9/30/2024

• 'I’m the Biggest Winner in the History of Sports', by at 9/30/2024

• The 2019 Oakland Athletics Offered a Chance to Avoid the Disaster, by Rich Campbell at 9/30/2024

• 6 Baseball Cards That Finished Strong, at 9/29/2024

• What it Was Like to Witness the End of the Oakland A's, by at 9/28/2024

• Maybe Marty Marion ISN'T a Hall of Famer, by Paul Semendinger at 9/28/2024

• This Year’s ‘Black Sox’ Were Historically Bad, by Phil Coffin 9/28/2024

• Major League Baseball 2024 All-Debut Team, by Benjamin Chase at 9/24/2024

• Preparing for the playoffs, suffering an epic collapse, and gazing to the future, by at 9/24/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Swung Surpisingly Hard, at 9/22/2024

• Pushing for the Cy, wondering about the Yanks, and striking out (a lot), by at 9/17/2024

• Looking back on the Hall of Fame career of Dennis Eckersley, by Matthew Veasey at 9/17/2024

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

• Power Rankings: How the 12 postseason teams stack up, by Will Leitch, 9/30/2024

• Here's how the 12 postseason teams were built, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 9/30/2024

• 12 teams left, and any can win it all. Here's how, by MLB.com writers, 9/30/2024

• The top 50 players in the 2024 postseason, by Will Leitch, 9/30/2024

• Here are your 2024 stat leaders, by MLB.com writers, 9/29/2024

• The best power-speed combo seasons ever, by Andrew Simon, 9/29/2024

• Impending free agents who can boost their stock in the postseason, by Mark Feinsand, 9/28/2024

• The most mind-blowing stats of the '24 season, by Anthony Castrovince, 9/25/2024

• Here are 8 top storylines from Triple-A and Double-A seasons, by Sam Dykstra, 9/24/2024

• 6 potential breakout stars for the 2024 postseason, by MLB.com and Yahoo! Sports writers, 9/23/2024

• MLB's rising attendance reaches new milestone, by Thomas Harrigan, 9/23/2024

• Can these 10 stars boost their postseason track records?, by Brian Murphy, 9/21/2024

• Here are baseball's 12 best power-speed prospects, by Sam Dykstra, Jim Callis, and Jonathan Mayo, 9/20/2024

• The hitter who refused to strike out, Witt's 30-30 season among stats of the week, by Sarah Langs, 9/19/2024

• Each team's breakout prospect from the '24 season, by Sam Dykstra, Jim Callis, and Jonathan Mayo, 9/18/2024

• Presenting ... the 2024 All-Non-All-Stars!, by Anthony Castrovince, 9/18/2024

• 10 stars on the hunt for first World Series ring, by Will Leitch, 9/18/2024