The Baseball Listicle Lineup for December 1-15, 2023

Issue #146

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 December 1-15, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Andruw Jones Deserves Hall of Fame Berth, by Dan Schlossberg, at 12/15/2023

• 5 Baseball Books To Get Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season, by Russ Walsh, at 12/13/2023

• Musings on Baseball While Waiting for Spring to Arrive, by Bill Pruden at 12/12/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards of Players Who Waited for Me, by Wax Pack Gods Newsletter 12/10/2023

• Acuña + Olson = Baseball’s Best Right-Left Punch, by Dan Schlossberg, at 12/9/2023

• Eras Committee Strikes Out in Picking Only One New Inductee, by Dan Schlossberg, at 12/8/2023

• Hall of Fame Special, Continued, by Joe Posnanski at 12/8/2023

• 5 MLB Teams To Follow For A Fun Ride In 2024, by Dan Freedman, at 12/7/2023

• Leyland, Piniella, the Hall of Fame and More, by at 12/5/2023

• The Confusing History of Baseball in Washington, D.C., by Gary Livacari, 12/4/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards Straight from the Body Shop, by 12/3/2023

• Seven for Cooperstown: These are the BBWAA ballot’s most deserving this time around, by Jeff Kallman, at 12/2/2023

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

• 5 burning Hot Stove questions ... with some answers, by Mark Feinsand, 12/15/2023

• 10 non-playoff teams most likely to rise in '24, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/15/2023

• The best fits for 10 teams that are hungry for pitching, by Thomas Harrigan, 12/13/2023

• Spring Breakout! 30-team prospect showcase to debut in March, by Sam Dykstra, 12/13/2023

• We could see the best trio of all time in 2024, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/10/2023

• Picking the best possible lineup from the '24 HOF ballot, by Andrew Simon, 12/9/2023

• Ranking the top lineup duos heading into '24, by Andrew Simon, 12/8/2023

• Gordon, Darling highlight '23 College Baseball HOF, by Rob Terranova, 12/8/2023

• Soto deal among biggest trades in Yankees history, by Bryan Hock, 12/6/2023

• 1 Winter Meetings goal for each team, by MLB.com writers, 12/4/2023

• These free agents are risky, but the payoff could be huge, by Manny Randhawa, 12/4/2023

• Ranking the toughest jobs for 8 new managers, by Will Leitch, 12/2/2023

• 10 player-team reunions we’d love to see, by Will Leitch, 12/2/2023

• Presenting 6 trade proposals for Juan Soto, by MLB.com writers, 12/1/2023

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