The Baseball Listicle Lineup for August 22-29, 2022

Issue #23

Sixth edition of this weekly 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 August 22-29, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• It’s Time to Start a Yankees Hall of Fame, by By Ethan Semendinger, IBWAA Newsletter, 8/27/2022

• Best Batters of 2011-2015, by G.Scott Thomas, Baseball’s Best (and Worst), 8/26/2022

• MLB’s New Schedule, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/25/2022

• Hall of Fame Candidates by Birth Year, Part 1 and Part 2, by Joe Posnanski, JoeBlogs, 8/23/2022 and 8/25/2022

Beyond those specific articles, be sure to check out the various baseball-related Substacks that I recommend.

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

• '52 Mantle card found in attic sold for $12.6M, by Henry Palattella, 8/28/2022

• The best player at each position to debut in '22, by Anthony Castrovince, 8/28/2022

• 9 prospects who could help teams down the stretch, by Jim Callis, 8/26/2022

• 1 awards candidate for every team, by Will Leitch, 8/25/2022

• 6 storylines that will dominate the winter, by Mark Feinsand, 8/24/2022

• Oneil Cruz crushes hardest-hit ball possibly ever, by Jake Crouse, 8/24/2022

• 7 fun takeaways from new '23 schedule format, by Will Leitch, 8/24/2022

• Julio mashes way to Seattle's 10th 20-20 season, by Daniel Kramer, 8/24/2022

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