The Baseball Listicle Lineup for April 1-15, 2025

Issue #247

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 baseball newsletter authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself.

Here are my favorite articles for the weeks April 1-15, 2025, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused newsletter authors:

• 5 Baseball Cards Custom Made for Tax Day, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 4/13/2025

• Meet The Pitchers With The Most K’s Per 9 Innings, by Dan Schlossberg, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 4/12/2025

• The Rankings Audit: How Good Are Mainstream Prospect Rankings Really?, by Maxfield Lane and Owen Riley, 4/11/2025

• Baseball's Real Financial Crisis, by Daniel Evensen, 4/7/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards that Ran the Show, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 4/6/2025

• Rookies Who Began Before the Award, by Dan Schlossberg, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 4/5/2025

• Do the Stars Alone Come Out for Opening Day?, by Dan Freedman, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 4/2/2025

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

• 7 early questions about the Cy Young races, by Andrew Simon, 4/15/2025

• Each club's last player to wear iconic No. 42, by MLB.com writers, 4/15/2025

• Each team's best promotional giveaway in 2025, by MLB.com writers, 4/13/2025

• Healthy again, these 9 players are back in a groove, by Jared Greenspan, 4/11/2025

• A three-pitch save, two 2-HR games at 22 and more stats of the week, by Sarah Langs, 4/11/2025

• One early-season development each team can believe in, by MLB.com writers, 4/10/2025

• Young star (no, not that one) rises to top of 1st in-season Pitcher Power Rankings, by Andrew Simon, 4/10/2025

• 6 hot starts most likely to last in 2025, by writers at Yahoo! Sports and MLB.com, 4/9/2025

• 11 players putting up early MVP numbers, by Andrew Simon and Manny Randhawa, 4/8/2025

• 7 fantastic feats we hope to see this season, by Andrew Simon, 4/4/2025

• 1 prospect prediction for each organization, by Jonathan Mayo, Jim Callis, and Sam Dykstra, 4/3/2025

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