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The Baseball Listicle Lineup for February 16-28, 2025
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past two weeks

Issue #219
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 16-28, 2025, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused newsletter authors:
The Prospect Arms Race: Who Might Make a 2025 Impact?, by Matt Veasey at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 2/27/2025
Top 10 Pitchers and Hitters RIGHT NOW, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 2/24/2025
5 First-String (but Second-Fiddle) Baseball Cards, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 2/23/2025
The Ultimate New Pitches List, by Lance Brozdowski at Lance’s Pitchers Notes, 2/21/2025
Swing and a miss, by Daniel Evensen at The Baseball Replay Journal, 2/20/2025
Top 10 Outfielders RIGHT NOW, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 2/17/2025
A Brief History of Bay Area Left Handed Starting Pitchers, by Rich Campbell at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 2/17/2025
5 Baseball Cards that Finish the Sentence, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 2/16/2025
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Beyond other newsletters, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:
Drafting 10 young players on the rise in '25, by MLB.com writers, 2/28/2025
Who will be each team's top home run hitter in '25?, by Andrew Simon, 2/27/2025
A sneak peek at the next free-agent class, by Thomas Harrigan, 2/26/2025
Each division's top major award candidates for 2025, by Will Leitch, 2/26/2025
10 players looking for rebound performances in '25, by MLB.com writers, 2/25/2025
8 notable players facing a position change in '25, by Theo DeRosa, 2/25/2025
1 dark horse candidate to make each Opening Day roster, by MLB.com writers, 2/24/2025
Remember these guys? 20 notable names in camp as NRIs, by Brian Murphy, 2/22/2025
9 teams that made biggest position upgrades in offseason, by Brian Murphy, 2/22/2025
10 prospects at Spring Training who are lighting up Statcast, by David Adler, 2/21/2025
How 10 teams can defy their playoff odds in '25, by Thomas Harrigan, 2/21/2025
Which Top 100 prospects are headed for Opening Day rosters?, by Michael Avallone, 2/20/2025
Most indispensable players: 10 stars whose teams need them the most, by Will Leitch, 2/20/2025
5 storylines to watch at Tokyo Series, by Paul Casella, 2/18/2025
The best-projected players to change teams this offseason, by Theo DeRosa and Andrew Simon, 2/17/2025
Every team's top projected player for '25, by Thomas Harrigan, 2/17/2025
Each team's player with most to prove in Spring Training, by MLB.com writers, 2/16/2025
Thanks for reading… and I hope you enjoy the remaining weeks of spring training!
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