The Baseball Listicle Lineup for April 16-30, 2024

Issue #178

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 16-30, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Pinpoint accuracy, swinging away, and shorter games, by at 4/30/2024

• SIERA vs. ERA - SPs to Buy & Sell, by at 4/29/2024

• These 6 'Perfect' Baseball Cards Are Always a Hit, at 4/28/2024

• George Steinbrenner and the Yankees of the ‘90s, by Paul Semendinger at 4/27/2024

• Braves In Cooperstown Are Not Necessarily In Team’s Hall of Fame, by Dan Schlossberg at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter 4/27/2024

• Free Friday: Going to the Dogs, by at 4/26/2024

• Connor Wong (!!) Off to Impressive Start, by Jamie Gatlin at 4/26/2024

• Vladimir's Pooin', by at 4/24/2024

• Consistent excellence, woeful bullpens, and the loss of competition, by at 4/23/2024

• A Brief History of Bay Area MLB Center Fielders, by Rich Campbell at 4/22/2024

• 5 Old Baseball Cards that Open All the Wounds, at 4/21/2024

• Early 2024 Breakouts Candidates, by at 4/19/2024

• This Red Sox Roster...Woof, at 4/19/2024

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

• The best, wildest, most surprising things to happen around baseball in April, by Will Leitch, 4/30/2024

• How these 7 struggling hitters can turn it around, by Theo DeRosa, 4/28/2024

• If the postseason began today, these would be the matchups, by Manny Randhawa, 4/28/2024

• Alonso in elite company after home run No. 200, by Bill Ladson, 4/27/2024

• 12 teams whose playoff odds have changed the most, by Thomas Harrigan, 4/26/2024

• 7 early breakout stars nobody saw coming, by Will Leitch, 4/24/2024

• How would a lineup of MLB sons fare?, by Andrew Simon, 4/20/2024

• 10 offseason additions already paying off in a big way, by Thomas Harrigan, 4/20/2024

• 7 former relievers enjoying life in the rotation, by Brian Murphy, 4/20/2024

• These 7 Hall of Fame hitters got off to slow starts, by Jason Foster, 4/20/2024

• Mookie, Soto among those with week's most spectacular stats, by Sarah Langs, 4/19/2024

• Prospects who could be impact callups -- 1 for each team, by Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, 4/18/2024

• 9 emerging stars carrying over strong finishes from last season, by Thomas Harrigan, 4/18/2024

• 9 teams that have leveled up at certain positions, by Brian Murphy, 4/17/2024

• 10 rookies off to the best starts so far, by Ben Weinrib, 4/16/2024

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