The Baseball Listicle Lineup for May 16-31, 2024

Issue #182

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 May 16-31, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• A Red Sox Rebuild?, at 5/30/2024

• The Year of the Pitcher II?, by at 5/30/2024

• Scoring leaders, triple-digit losers, and the disappearing complete game, by at 5/28/2024

• These 5 Baseball Cards Must Be in the Front Row, at 5/26/2024

• Baseball Season Hits Memorial Day Marker, by Dan Schlossberg at 5/25/2024

• Yankees' Owner Says Yankees' Payroll is Not Sustainable, by at 5/24/2024

• 35 Years Ago, Mike Schmidt Hung Up His Cleats For Good, by Matthew Veasey at 5/24/2024

• Book Excerpt: The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness, by at 5/22/2024

• Hot and cold clubs, Kansas City’s hopes, and a Dodgers quiz, by at 5/21/2024

• 2024 MLB Outlier Data Points 3.0, by at 5/21/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Played Both Sides, at 5/19/2024

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

• The best (Phillies!), wildest and everything in between from May, by Will Leitch, 5/31/2024

• Here's the significance of leading a division on June 1, by Sarah Langs, 5/31/2024

• Can Sale win the Cy? 5 Fascinations around the baseball world, by Will Leitch, 5/31/2024

• Skenes' b-day bash, Giants' comebacks among stats of the week, by Sarah Langs, 5/31/2024

• Top leaderboard changes as Negro Leagues join Major League record, by Andrew Simon, 5/29/2024

• 1 player each team is eager to get back from the IL, by Theo DeRosa, 5/28/2024

• Predicting the All-MLB Team after 2 months, by Thomas Harrigan, 5/28/2024

• 7 remarkable 'on-pace' stats to follow, by MLB.com writers, 5/26/2024

• These relievers have been lights-out in 2024, by Theo DeRosa, 5/25/2024

• 10 hitters who have heated up after a cold start, by Brian Murphy, 5/25/2024

• Historic RBI binge, sweepless streak finally ending among stats of the week, by Sarah Langs, 5/24/2024

• Busch going yard at Busch? Here are some quirky name-ballpark combos, by Sarah Langs, 5/24/2024

• 9 surprising players leading their teams in hitting, by Thomas Harrigan, 5/23/2024

• Five years later: Here's each team's best Draft pick from 2019, by Sam Dykstra, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, 5/22/2024

• In or out? 7 would-be contenders facing a pivotal stretch, by Will Leitch, 5/22/2024

• 10 rookies who have excelled over the past month, by Kenny Van Doren, 5/21/2024

• 9 pitchers finding success without lighting up the radar gun, by Brian Murphy, 5/21/2024

• Latest MVP poll shows rare battle brewing in NL, by Thomas Harrigan, 5/21/2024

• Answering the 'what if' question for these 9 stars, by Manny Randhawa, 5/18/2024

• The unsweepable O's, and other fascinating storylines this week, by Will Leitch, 5/17/2024

• Skenes' red-hot radar readings highlight wild week of stats, by Sarah Langs, 5/17/2024