The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 16-30, 2023

Issue #111

Latest edition of this regular feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles. Somewhat similar to my own writing topics, I tend to like “listicles” the best—articles that are either written in list form or that make heavy use of lists and charts of data, players, rankings, etc. I’ll of course include other favorite baseball articles in these weekly round-ups, but you’ll find most will be of that type. I’ll especially be focusing on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself, but I sometimes do read articles from other sources too.

Here are my favorite articles for the weeks July 16-30, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• A Core is Building, by 7/29/2023

• Friday Rewind: Ohtani Keeps Rewriting History, by at 7/28/2023

• Era’s best shortstops, by G. Scott Thomas at 7/27/2023

• What If We Didn't Have the A's and Royals to Kick Around This Year? by at 7/26/2023

• My Baseball Hall Of Fame Induction Weekend Notebook, by @Elizabeth Muratore at 7/26/2023

• Why does MLB play 162 games?, by G. Scott Thomas at 7/25/2023

• Is the American League OK?, by at 7/23/2023

• 9 Players Who Helped Mold Crime Dog, by 7/23/2023

• 5 Things You Most Likely Didn't Know (or Have Ever Heard) About Hoyt Wilhelm by Brett Honeycutt and Want a Bigger Induction Weekend? Wait Til 2024 by Dan Schlossberg at 7/22/2023

• Brilliant Reader Challenge: Hall of Fame Misses and Mistakes, by at 7/20/2023

• Era’s best second basemen, by G.Scott Thomas at 7/20/2023

• The State of Baseball (Trade Deadline Edition), by at 7/19/2023

• Ronald Acuña Jr. And Eric Davis: Comparing Power-Speed Phenoms, by Paul White at 7/19/2023

• The LVP standings, by G. Scott Thomas at 7/18/2023

• Mets, Padres Engaged in Neck-and-Neck Battle For Most Disappointing MLB Team of All-Time, by at 7/16/2023

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

• 5 trades that should happen, but won't, by MLB.com writers, 7/30/2023

• 7 teams that should go all-in at Trade Deadline, by Anthony Castrovince, 7/29/2023

• An area to upgrade at the Deadline for each team, by Mark Feinsand, 7/28/2023

• Pros and cons of 9 top trade candidates, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/28/2023

• 5 contenders with a need for speed at the Deadline, by Mike Petriello, 7/27/2023

• Top 14 pitchers on trade block, ranked, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/27/2023

• The 7 teams that should trade for Scherzer or Verlander, by Will Leitch, 7/25/2023

• Go big at the Deadline? These 6 teams have the prospects to do it, by Jordan Meneo, 7/26/2023

• 5 teams whose playoff destiny lies in their own hands, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 7/25/2023

• 17 players most likely to be traded before Deadline, by Mark Feinsand, 7/25/2023

• A perfect-world Trade Deadline strategy for each team, by MLB.com writers, 7/24/2023

• An early look at the 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, by David Adler, 7/23/2023

• The 10 strangest trades in MLB history, by Anthony Castrovince, 7/22/2023

• 5 under-the-radar trade targets at the Deadline, by Mike Petriello, 7/22/2023

• 5 teams headed for big breakouts in 2024, by Will Leitch, 7/21/2023

• From bros to Cole to epic throws, wild stats from the week, by Sarah Langs, 7/20/2023

• Match game: Each contender's best trade fit, by Mark Feinsand, 7/19/2023

• 7 potential free agents with a lot at stake in 2nd half, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/19/2023

• 12 stars who need a big second half, by Theo DeRosa, 7/18/2023

• Here is the All-Trade Candidate Team, by Mark Feinsand, 7/18/2023

• These guys are destined to be 2nd-half All-Stars ... just hear us out, by David Adler, 7/16/2023

• Each team's prospects to watch in second half, MLB.com writers, 7/16/2023

• No need to wait: Let the trading begin!, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/16/2023

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