The Baseball Listicle Lineup for September 1-15, 2024

Issue #197

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

• 5 Baseball Cards that Owe It All to September, at 9/15/2024

• Meet The Most-Traded Man in Baseball History, by Dan Schlossberg at 9/14/2024

• Around the Horn, by at 9/13/2024

• Dynasty League Targets for 2025 and Beyond, by at 9/11/2024

• Locking up the MVPs, heating up at the plate, and feasting on homers, by at 9/10/2024

• Introducing and Explaining WHIP+, by at 9/9/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards You've Been Saying Wrong, at 9/8/2024

• Kansas City Royals — You Read That Right — Beef Up For Stretch Drive, by Dan Schlossberg at 9/6/2024

• Today’s MLB Players Don’t Bunt, And It’s Not Only Because They Can’t, by Mark Kolier 9/4/2024

• Stretch drives, classic flops, and amazing demonstrations of power and speed, by at 9/3/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards that Worked Hard Like You, at 9/1/2024

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

• 8 surging players who have turned it on for contenders, by Brian Murphy, 9/15/2024

• With benefit of hindsight, these teams won Trade Deadline, by Anthony Castrovince, 9/15/2024

• 8 unlikely contributors for contending clubs, by Thomas Harrigan, 9/15/2024

• 6 bounceback playoff contenders for 2025, by MLB.com and Yahoo! Sports writers, 9/14/2024

• The top 10 offseason additions leading their teams toward October, by Thomas Harrigan, 9/14/2024

• The most encouraging performances of the season for each team, by MLB.com writers, 9/12/2024

• Which of these struggling contenders should be most worried?, by Will Leitch, 9/12/2024

• How 5 contenders have defied preseason expectations, by Mike Petriello, 9/10/2024

• Hottest hitting prospects to end the season -- one for each team, by Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo, 9/5/2024

• Offensive outbursts -- and 1 blazing fastball -- highlight wild week of stats, by Sarah Langs, 9/5/2024

• 9 veterans who could be saying goodbye after the 2024 season, by Will Leitch, 9/4/2024

• Each team's player with the most to prove down the stretch, by MLB.com writers, 9/4/2024

• Here are the 10 farm systems with the best outfield prospects, by Jonathan Mayo, 9/3/2024