The Baseball Listicle Lineup for February 1-15, 2024

Issue #164

Latest edition of this 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 February 1-15, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Fame 48: True Blue, by at 2/15/2024

• 2024 Hall of Fame Voting Retrospective, at 2/15/2024

• Fame 49: The Perfectionist, by at 2/14/2024

• The Most Famous Baseball Players of the Last 50 Years—the Countdown Begins!, by at 2/13/2024

• Jon Lester's HOF Case, at 2/12/2024

• 5 Blue-Sky Baseball Cards to Celebrate Downtown Brown, by 2/11/2024

• IBWAA Newsletter Inspires New Baseball Book, at 2/9/2024

• From The Broadcast Booth To The Dugout, by Mark Kolier, at 2/7/2024

• Remember My Name! Fame!, by at 2/6/2024

• 5 Less Famous Baseball Brothers Lurking in Your Commons Box, by 2/4/2024

• Taking Immaculate Grid Even Further, by Daniel Epstein, at 2/3/2024

• Baseball players have, ahem, entangled with celebrities, too, by Jeff Kallman, at 2/2/2024

• The First 300-Game Winner, by Dan Schlossberg, at 2/2/2024

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

• Witt, Turner headline 2024 fantasy SS rankings, by Brent Maguire, 2/15/2024

• New star headlines fantasy field at 2B, by Dylan Svoboda, 2/15/2024

• Freeman, Olson head up fantasy first base rankings, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 2/15/2024

• The clubs that made sneaky-great offseason moves, by Mark Feinsand, 2/14/2024

• J-Ram, Riley sit atop 2024 fantasy 3B rankings, by Theo DeRosa, 2/14/2024

• Breaking down every team's impact offseason moves, by MLB.com writers, 2/14/2024

• The projected 2024 All-Rookie Team, by Brian Murphy, 2/14/2024

• 10 pitchers with huge Spring Training hype, by David Adler, 2/13/2024

• 1 key Spring Training storyline for each team, by MLB.com writers, 2/12/2024

• Cy Young favorites and sleepers for 2024, by MLB.com writers, 2/12/2024

• Every team's projected Opening Day lineup, rotation, by MLB.com writers, 2/12/2024

• All-Trade Rumor Team: Who could be on the move this spring?, by Mark Feinsand, 2/10/2024

• 8 biggest surprises of the offseason (so far), by Anthony Castrovince, 2/10/2024

• How the projected standings agree (and how they don't), by Thomas Harrigan, 2/9/2024

• These are top candidates for next long-term extension, by Mark Feinsand, 2/9/2024

• 7 players who could set new standards of longevity for their clubs, by Brian Murphy, 2/8/2024

• A budding franchise cornerstone for every team, by Will Leitch, 2/8/2024

• Who are the MVP favorites in '24? Who are the dark horses?, by MLB.com writers, 2/8/2024

• Looking under the radar for this year's breakout relievers, by Mike Petriello, 2/8/2024

• Window closing? These 6 teams face high stakes in '24, by Will Leitch, 2/7/2024

• Worst to first and 5 other surprising projections, by MLB.com writers, 2/6/2024

• 15 prospects we were wrong about, by Jonathan Mayo, 2/5/2024

• Projecting 12 stats leaders for the 2024 season, by Manny Randhawa, 2/5/2024

• The most improved players of 2024 will be ..., by Thomas Harrigan, 2/4/2024

• These players soared into the top 5 at their position, by Brian Murphy, 2/4/2024

• Presenting the 2024 All-Underrated Team, by Anthony Castrovince, 2/4/2024

• Who's the best player to debut each season over last 20 years?, by Will Leitch, 2/3/2024

• The most stacked position in baseball is ..., by Anthony Castrovince, 2/3/2024

• Ranking possible World Series rematches we could see in '24, by Will Leitch, 2/1/2024

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