The Baseball Listicle Lineup for February 1-15, 2025

Issue #217

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 baseball newsletter authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself.

Here are my favorite articles for the weeks February 1-15, 2025, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused newsletter authors:

• Shutouts Were Once a Dime a Dozen, by Dan Schlossberg at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 2/15/2025

• Spring Training News and Analysis, by Jon A. at JonPGH MLB Data Warehouse, 2/15/2025

• Detroit Tigers: Spring Training Position Battles, by Joe Underhill at at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 2/15/2025

• Crown Jewels: Adding to a Strength, Royals Injuries and Spring Extensions, by David Lesky at Inside the Crown, 2/14/2025

• Prospect Pearls: 10 Under-the-Radar Talents, by Maxfield Lane and Owen Riley at Down on the Farm, 2/13/2025

• The 2025 All Upside Team, by Jon A. at JonPGH MLB Data Warehouse, 2/13/2025

• Top 10 First Basemen RIGHT NOW, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 2/12/2025

• Ten More Negro Leaguers Worthy of Cooperstown, by Chris Jensen, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 2/12/2025

• New Pitches... Already?! And a Trade to Analyze, by Lance Brozdowski at Lance’s Pitchers Notes, 2/10/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards that Really NEED Spring Training, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 2/9/2025

• Top 10 Second Basemen RIGHT NOW, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 2/4/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards Stoked for Groundhog Day, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 2/2/2025

• The All No-Position Prospect Team, by Maxfield Lane and Owen Riley at Down on the Farm, 2/1/2025

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

• 11 rookies projected to make an impact in 2025, by Brian Murphy, 2/15/2025

• These 12 players are on the rise entering '25, by Brian Murphy, 2/14/2025

• 7 stars entering '25 with bat speed on the rise, by David Adler, 2/12/2025

• The biggest moves we didn't see coming this offseason, by Anthony Castrovince, 2/11/2025

• A pitching club more exclusive than perfect games, by Anthony Cichalski, 2/11/2025

• 15 prospects primed to bounce back from injury in 2025, by Ben Weinrib, 2/9/2025

• The top 100 fantasy baseball players for 2025, by Yahoo! Sports and MLB.com writers, 2/9/2025

• The No. 1 Spring Training storyline for each team, by MLB.com writers, 2/9/2025

• 12 must-watch pitchers this Spring Training, by David Adler, 2/8/2025

• The most improved players of 2025 will be…, by Thomas Harrigan, 2/7/2025

• 7 hopeful predictions as we get set for Spring Training, by Will Leitch, 2/7/2025

• 6 teams the projection systems disagree about the most, by Thomas Harrigan, 2/6/2025

• These big leaguers played for the most teams, by MLB.com writers, 2/6/2025

• Projected 2025 standings and playoff odds are here, by David Adler, 2/4/2025

• Here is 2025's All-Underrated Team, by Anthony Castrovince, 2/4/2025

• 10 players vying for record books in 2025, by Sarah Langs, 2/2/2025

• Ranking the most likely World Series rematches for 2025, by MLB.com writers, 2/2/2025

• Ranking the most stacked positions of 2025, by Anthony Castrovince, 2/1/2025