The Baseball Listicle Lineup for July 16-31, 2024

Issue #190

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 July 16-31, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• State of the Red Sox Post Deadline, at 7/31/2024

• Winners and Losers of a Weird MLB Trade Deadline, by at 7/31/2024

• Run-generating machines, Hall of Fame growth, and the great Casey Stengel, by at 7/30/2024

• 5 Cards to Celebrate the Lad(d)s of Summer, at 7/28/2024

• Live from the National Card Convention!, by at 7/26/2024

• Clayton Kershaw's Back (and Other Top Stories of the Week), by at at 7/26/2024

• Hot catchers and DHs, consistent Dodgers, and truly wild pitchers, by at 7/23/2024

• Digging the Long Ball, by at 7/23/2024

• A Brief History of Bay Area MLB Right Fielders, by Rich Campbell at 7/22/2024

• These 5 Baseball Cards Will Put Hair on Your Lip, at 7/21/2024

• Top 75 SP's: Rest of Season, by at 7/19/2024

• BR Qs: Should They Lower the Mound?, by at 7/19/2024

• Here’s Your List of the 100 Greatest Players, by at 7/18/2024

• Most Surprising and Disappointing Teams, at 7/17/2024

• A Deep Dive: Abandoned No-Hitters, by at 7/17/2024

• The best (and worst) outfielders, strikeout inflation, and the top triplers, by at 7/16/2024

• Will Manzi Second Half 1B Ranks, ROS Prospect Ranks, by at 7/16/2024

• Not Every All-Star Was a Star, by Daniel R. Epstein at 7/16/2024

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

• Hottest pitching prospects right now -- one for each team, by Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, and Jim Callis, 7/31/2024

• Presenting the 2024 All-Trade Deadline Team, by Andrew Simon, 7/31/2024

• Who were the Trade Deadline winners? We ranked the top 7, by Will Leitch, 7/31/2024

• The 12 most impactful deals of the '24 Trade Deadline, ranked, by Mike Petriello, 7/31/2024

• Tracking every 2024 Trade Deadline deal, by MLB.com writers, 7/30/2024

• 6 X-factors who will shape the rest of the season, by MLB.com writers, 7/24/2024

• Predicting the All-MLB Team in wake of the All-Star break, by Brian Murphy, 7/23/2024

• Each team's prospect to watch in second half of season, by MLB.com writers, 7/20/2024

• 15 injured stars whose returns could be just as impactful as a trade, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/20/2024

• 6 former prospects who are breaking out, by Thomas Harrigan, 7/20/2024

• Can these 7 stars keep up with their ‘on-pace’ stats?, by Theo DeRosa, 7/18/2024

• Is a breakthrough coming for these struggling 2023 All-Stars?, by Cole Jacobson, 7/18/2024

• One second-half goal for every club, by MLB.com writers, 7/18/2024

• These are the top pitches of the first half of the season, by Brent Maguire, 7/18/2024

• Here are the biggest steals from the 2024 MLB Draft, by Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo, 7/17/2024

• Here are our favorite '24 Draft picks -- one for each team, by Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, and Jim Callis, 7/17/2024

• Can these 8 players keep it up after big first halves?, by Theo DeRosa, 7/17/2024

• These players will be key for their teams in the second half, by MLB.com writers, 7/17/2024