The Baseball Listicle Lineup for April 1-15, 2024

Issue #176

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

• 5 Villainous Baseball Cards to Keep Locked Up, by 4/14/2024

• We're Goin' to Jackson, by at 4/12/2024

• A Modest Proposal, by at 4/11/2024

• 2024 MLB Outlier Data Points 1.0, by at 4/10/2024

• No. 2: Atlanta Braves and No. 1: Los Angeles Dodgers, by at 4/10/2024

• Contact, Sacramento, and winning in Pittsburgh, by at 4/9/2024

• Where Are the Top Baseball Prospects to Open 2024?, by Benjamin Chase, 4/8/2024

• Exploding Elbows Lead To Finger-Pointing, by at 4/7/2024

• 6 Classic Baseball Cards of Surprising Relief Heroes, by 4/7/2024

• History of Baseball Card Collecting: The Golden Age and Subsequent Overexpansion, by Paul Banks, at 4/1/2024

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

• Here are the favorites as Cy Young races take shape, by Jason Foster, 4/15/2024

• 10 rebound candidates off to hot starts, by Thomas Harrigan, 4/13/2024

• The most interesting new pitches of 2024, by Mike Petriello, 4/12/2024

• 7 hot hitters who can keep sizzling into summer, by MLB.com writers, 4/11/2024

• Yankees sluggers, Blanco, Elly posted stellar stats this week, by Sarah Langs, 4/11/2024

• One early-season development to believe in for each team, by MLB.com writers, 4/10/2024

• What’s the panic level for these 7 slow-starting teams?, by Will Leitch, 4/10/2024

• The first Rookie of the Year poll is in: Who are the early faves?, by Brian Murphy, 4/9/2024

• 9 fun -- even outlandish -- early-season stats, by MLB.com writers, 4/7/2024

• 1 week down, here are 7 things we've learned ... so far, by Mike Petriello, 4/6/2024

• What does the future hold for center field?, by Cole Jacobson, 4/6/2024

• The 5 best things in baseball right now, by Will Leitch, 4/5/2024

• From Mookie's torrid start to an unlikely no-no, wild stats this week, by Sarah Langs, 4/4/2024

• Bold prospect predictions for 2024 -- one for each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, 4/3/2024

• Who will be 2024's breakout star, according to execs?, by Mark Feinsand, 4/3/2024

• The 10 best power-hitting prospects in the Minors, by Brendan Samson, 4/2/2024

• Predicting the 2024 All-MLB Team, by Thomas Harrigan, 4/2/2024

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.