The Baseball Listicle Lineup for December 1-15, 2024

Issue #209

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 December 1-15, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• 5 Baseball Cards Driving in the Breeze, at 12/15/2024

• Finally! Dick Allen is Voted into the Hall of Fame, by Russ Walsh at 12/11/2024

• Don’t Knock the Rock, by Joe Posnanski at 12/11/2024

• First-Ballot Players on the 2025 Hall of Fame Ballot, by Benjamin Chase at 12/9/2024

• A Classic Case of Timing, by at 12/9/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards Born at the Winter Meetings, at 12/8/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Can Handle the Glare, at 12/1/2024

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

• The top fits for 10 teams that need rotation help, by Brian Murphy, 12/15/2024

• Do these 11 'old guy' FAs have something left in the tank?, by Will Leitch, 12/15/2024

• These 12 players will be looking for big walk years in '25, by Manny Randhawa, 12/15/2024

• Which all-time marks will Soto challenge before his career is done?, by Mike Petriello, 12/6/2024

• 10 reunions we'd like to see in free agency, by Will Leitch, 12/5/2024

• These 5 teams have strong foundations -- how can they build toward postseason?, by MLB.com writers, 12/3/2024

• Sleeper teams that could make a surprise splash this offseason, Anthony Castrovince, 12/2/2024

• 7 top free agents who could jump to division rivals, by Manny Randhawa, 12/2/2024

• 1 potential trade candidate from each team, by Mark Feinsand, 12/1/2024

• The best 2024-25 free agent at every age, by Andrew Simon, 12/1/2024