The Baseball Listicle Lineup for Dec 10 - Dec 24, 2022

Issue #52

Latest edition of this regular feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles. Somewhat similar to my own writing topics, I tend to like “listicles” the best—articles that are either written in list form or that make heavy use of lists and charts of data, players, rankings, etc. I’ll of course include other favorite baseball articles in these weekly round-ups, but you’ll find most will be of that type. I’ll especially be focusing on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself, but I sometimes do read articles from other sources too.

Here are my favorite articles for the week Dec 10 - Dec 24, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• John Sanders and Others Lost to the Major League Baseball Family in 2022, by Matthew Veasey, at Here’s the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 12/23/2022

• Andruw Jones Is The Most Deserving Hall of Fame Candidate This Year, by Dan Schlossberg, second article at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 12/23/2022

• I…uh…Correa…what? by Joe Posnanski, 12/21/2022

• Born On This Day: Josh Gibson, by W.H. Johnson, at Here’s the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 12/21/2022

• 5 Hobby Treats for Santa, by Wax Pack Gods, 12/18/2022

• 5 Cheap 70s Hobby Stocking Stuffers, by Wax Pack Gods, 12/11/2022

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

• The All-Holiday team of your dreams, by Matt Monagan, 12/24/2022

• 22 biggest reasons baseball was the best in 2022, by Sarah Langs, by 12/23/2022

• These 11 teams are the most improved of the winter, by Anthony Castrovince, by 12/23/2022

• Trade proposals that make sense entering '23, by MLB.com writers, 12/23/2022

• The Top 10 lineups in baseball for '23 are ..., by Anthony Castrovince, 12/21/2022

• 5 takeaways from stunning Correa news, by Will Leitch, 12/21/2022

• The best MLB player from every country & territory, by Brian Murphy, 12/20/2022

• You might not have seen these 8 breakouts coming, by Will Leitch, 12/20/2022

• After FA departures, clubs need these 8 to step up, by Thomas Harrigan, 12/20/2022

• The longest-tenured player on each club, by Will Leitch, 12/18/2022

• Which division is best heading into 2023?, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/15/2022

• Are Cole and Rodón the No. 1 starting pitcher duo?, by David Adler, 12/15/2022

• Here is the 2022 'All-Awardless' team, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/11/2022

• 10 players with longest current tenure with 1 club, by Matt Kelly and Paul Casella, 12/10/2022

And finally, if you are interested in daily, yet quick-read, baseball-related email newsletters, you can’t go wrong with these three:

• Baseball Reference Newsletter - recaps of yesterday's top performers, a look ahead at today's games, unique milestones and Stathead spotlights, and "On This Day" and "Born This Day" lists.

• MLB Morning Lineup - links to the latest articles, videos, and more from MLB

• Horsehide Trivia - a challenging baseball trivia question each day, from D. Bruce Brown