The Baseball Listicle Lineup for March 1-15, 2025

Issue #223

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 March 1-15, 2025, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused newsletter authors:

• Unsigned Players: Beware the Ides of March, by Dan Schlossberg, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/15/2025

• Spring Training Breakouts: Prospects, Journeymen, and Those In-Between, by Maxfield Lane and Owen Riley, 3/13/2025

• The Winner Takes it All, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 3/12/2025

• The Final Top 100 SP Update, by Jon A. at JonPGH MLB Data Warehouse, 3/11/2025

• Breakout Players in the AL East, at Ballpark Buzz’s Newsletter, 3/10/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards Caught Short of Cooperstown, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 3/9/2025

• A Campy Power Surge, by Paul Semendinger, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/8/2025

• Healthy Again, Tommy John Survivors Bid For 2025 Cys, by Dan Schlossberg, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/8/2025

• Smoke Signals from the Hall of Fame, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 3/7/2025

• Who Are the Top Prospects In MLB Entering 2025?, by Benjamin Chase, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/3/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards to Power Your Stolen Memories, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 3/2/2025

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

• MLB players say the best player in baseball is ..., by Brian Murphy, 3/15/2025

• Which teams have changed the most heading into ’25?, by Theo DeRosa, 3/14/2025

• Who is the best defender in baseball? Let's ask the players, by Jared Greenspan, 3/14/2025

• Ranking the top 10 pitching staffs in the game, by Anthony Castrovince, 3/13/2025

• Players pick their most underrated peers on the diamond, by Jeffrey Lutz, 3/13/2025

• Predicting this year's division winners and Wild Card teams, by Will Leitch, 3/12/2025

• 15 pitchers who could win a Cy Young Award in 2025, by MLB.com writers, 3/12/2025

• Ranking the Top 10 lineups heading into Opening Day, by Anthony Castrovince, 3/11/2025

• 1 remaining position battle each team needs to settle, by MLB.com writers, 3/9/2025

• 15 nasty new pitches we've seen this spring, by David Adler, 3/8/2025

• Who are the MVP favorites, dark horses in 2025?, by MLB.com writers, 3/7/2025

• There's a new No. 1 in farm system rankings, by Jonathan Mayo, Sam Dykstra, and Jim Callis, 3/7/2025

• Drafting the World Series favorites, from 1 (guess who!) to 30, by Will Leitch and Mike Petriello, 3/6/2025

• How 10 teams can turn weaknesses into strengths, by Thomas Harrigan, 3/5/2025

• How 10 teams can turn weaknesses into strengths, by Thomas Harrigan, 3/5/2025

• 1 bold prediction for each division entering the 2025 season, by Will Leitch, 3/4/2025

• Surprise stat leaders: Under-the-radar picks to click, by MLB.com writers, 3/4/2025

• 1 prospect from every team making noise this spring, by MLB.com writers, 3/2/2025

Thanks for reading… and I hope you enjoy the remaining weeks of spring training!