The Baseball Listicle Lineup for January 1-15, 2024

Issue #157

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 January 1-15, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• 5 Baseball Cards that Found Pop Culture Love at 1/14/2024

• Door to 300 Club Is Closed Forever, by Dan Schlossberg at 1/13/2024

• Quintet of Clubs Still Seek World Series Title, by Dan Schlossberg at 1/12/2024

• A Closer Look at the Spray Angle of Batted-Balls, by Drew Haugen at 1/11/2024

• How About A New Generation Of Baseball Movies? by Mark Kolier at 1/10/2024

• Hall of Fame Breakdown: Third Base, by at 1/10/2024

• Charting The Royals Somewhat Unlikely Path 90 Wins, by at 1/9/2024

• Hall of Fame Breakdown: Shortstop, by at 1/9/2024

• MLB Will Have Another 300-game Winner, by Benjamin Chase at 1/8/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Kept Their Resolutions, at 1/7/2024

• 2023: Just one of those years. Wasn’t it? Ermmm, not quite., by Jeff Kallman at 1/5/2024

• A Can't-Miss Sale?, by at 1/5/2024

• Hall of Fame Breakdown: Second Base, by at 1/4/2024

• 5 Bold 2024 Royals Predictions by at 1/3/2024

• Kicking Off Our Big Baseball Hall of Fame Breakdown, by at 1/3/2024

• The Hall of Fame Needs Joe Mauer — And Many More Catchers, by Daniel R. Epstein at 1/3/2024

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

• Sluggers who could make a run at 500 homers, by Manny Randhawa and Mike Petriello, 1/15/2024

• Rebound on tap for these 2023 free agents?, by Thomas Harrigan, 1/13/2024

• 10 players who should run more in '24, by David Adler, 1/12/2024

• These teams have made the biggest gains at each position, by Andrew Simon, 1/12/2024

• These teams will win the next 10 World Series, by Will Leitch, 1/10/2024

• These stars might be MLB's next Triple Crown winner, by Brian Murphy, 1/9/2024

• MLB's best player may not be who you think, by Mike Petriello, 1/8/2024

• Who will win Rookie of the Year in '24? We polled baseball execs, by Jonathan Mayo, 1/7/2024

• 15 stars who are hoping for better health in 2024, by Thomas Harrigan, 1/7/2024

• Who will be MLB's next unanimous Hall of Famer?, by Matt Kelly and Thomas Harrigan, 1/7/2024

• They improved in '23. What's in store for '24?, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, 1/6/2024

• 40 potential Hall of Famers we'll see play in 2024, by Mike Petriello, 1/5/2024

• Who made Morosi's HOF ballot? Breaking down his 10 picks, by Jon Paul Morosi, 1/4/2024

• Watch 'em fall! Records we want to see broken in '24, by MLB.com writers, 1/4/2024

• 8 New Year's resolutions for baseball this year, by Anthony Castrovince, 1/2/2024

• Power Rankings: Who's on top to begin 2024?, by Will Leitch, 1/1/2024

• The funkiest windups in MLB history, by Manny Randhawa, 1/1/2024

Did you know? I wrote a book with the same title as this Substack newsletter / blog: Now Taking the Field: Baseball’s All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises. It was published in early 2019, by ACTA Sports, the publisher of the annual Bill James Handbook and other popular titles. You can learn more about it at www.NowTakingTheField.com, or buy directly at Amazon and other booksellers.