The Baseball Listicle Lineup for August 14-28, 2023

Issue #117

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 August 14-28, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Revisiting My 23 Predictions for 2023..., by at 8/28/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards That Couldn't Have Been Anything Else, by 8/27/2023

• A Quick Look At Some Yankees Who Should Be Hall of Famers, by Paul Semendinger at 8/26/2023

• Rangers in Free Fall, Mariners Now Just a Game Out of First, by at 8/25/2023

• The White Sox Shakeup, Every Team’s Biggest Free Agent and More, by at 8/24/2023

• Shohei Ohtani Tears UCL Because We Can't Have Nice Things, by at 8/24/2023

• Era’s best right fielders, by G. Scott Thomas at 8/24/2023

• The Readers Have Spoken: Five More Players Who Have Been Scorching Hot, by at 8/23/2023

• Five Players Who Have Been Scorching Hot Since July 1, by at 8/22/2023

• Appreciating Hall of Fame Recognition, by Benjamin Chase, at 8/21/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards My Mom Loved, by 8/20/2023

• Justin Verlander Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, by at 8/18/2023

• Era’s best center fielders, by G. Scott Thomas at 8/17/2023

• Is This Braves Lineup the Best Ever?, by at 8/16/2023

• The Rangers Are For Real, by at 8/15/2023

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

• Free agent rankings: Top 10 for this offseason ... plus a wild card, by Mark Feinsand, 8/28/2023

• These 13 can choose to be free agents this offseason, by Mark Feinsand, 8/27/2023

• Each playoff contender's most crucial player, by Anthony Castrovince, 8/26/2023

• 8 players who are much better than expected, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 8/25/2023

• 10 statistical races that could go down to the wire, by Thomas Harrigan, 8/24/2023

• 10 hitters who have improved the most since the All-Star break, by Thomas Harrigan, 8/22/2023

• 10 things no one saw coming this season, by Anthony Castrovince, 8/20/2023

• A look at the biggest impending free agents from each team, by Will Leitch, 8/19/2023

• Historic homers, massive comebacks among 10 wild stats from the week, by Sarah Langs, 8/18/2023

• 20 stars who went from the LLWS to the big leagues, by Cole Jacobson, 8/18/2023

• One thing we got wrong for each team in 2023, by MLB.com writers, 8/16/2023

• From 1-30, MLB Pipeline ranks each club's farm system, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, 8/15/2023

• These 10 rookies have surprised for contenders, by Brian Murphy, 8/14/2023

• All-MLB Watch: Here are the favorites for 2023, by Manny Randhawa, 8/13/2023

And finally, if you are interested in daily, yet quick-read, baseball-related email newsletters, you can’t go wrong with these three:

• Baseball Reference Newsletter - recaps of yesterday's top performers, a look ahead at today's games, unique milestones and Stathead spotlights, and "On This Day" and "Born This Day" lists.

• MLB Morning Lineup - links to the latest articles, videos, and more from MLB

• Horsehide Trivia - a challenging baseball trivia question each day, from D. Bruce Brown

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.