The Baseball Listicle Lineup for March 16-31, 2025

Issue #233

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 16-31, 2025, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused newsletter authors:

• 5 Baseball Cards Walk into a Bar on April Fool's Day, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 3/30/2025

• 2025 Flag Plants & Predictions, at JonPGH MLB Data Warehouse, 3/25/2025

• Ten Major League Baseball Prospects to Watch in the 2025 Season, by Benjamin Chase, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/25/2025

• National League Hinge Guys!, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 3/24/2025

• American League Hinge Guys!, by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 3/24/2025

• 5 Baseball Cards Ready for Their Close-Ups, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 3/23/2025

• Spring Standout Hitters, at JonPGH MLB Data Warehouse, 3/21/2025

• The Greatest Premiere, by Mark Kolier, at Here’s the Pitch: The IBWAA Newsletter, 3/19/2025

• The Prospect 50 (Part I), by Joe Posnanski at JoeBlogs, 3/18/2025

• 5 All-Star Baseball Cards by Any Other Name, at Wax Pack Gods Newsletter, 3/16/2025

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

• Predicting when prospects will make MLB debuts by month, by Sam Dykstra, 3/31/2025

• Celebrate April Fools' Day with these 10 classic baseball pranks, by Jeffrey Lutz, 3/31/2025

• Instant overreactions from opening weekend ... and how valid they might be, by Anthony Castrovince, 3/30/2025

• Which teams improved the most? Execs weigh in, by Mark Feinsand, 3/29/2025

• Cheers? Boos? 11 player homecomings that could stir big emotions, by Jason Foster, 3/29/2025

• The 10 oldest players in baseball in 2025, by Will Leitch, 3/29/2025

• 1 thing that needs to go right for each team in 2025, by MLB.com writers, 3/27/2025

• The major milestones within reach for star players in 2025, by Sarah Langs, 3/26/2025

• MLB experts predict each division winner (and WS champ!), by Brian Murphy, 3/26/2025

• Every team's great unknown ahead of Opening Day, by MLB.com writers, 3/26/2025

• Meet the All-Unheralded Opening Day Team, by Jason Foster, 3/26/2025

• Top prospects to watch at Triple-A -- one for each organization, by Jonathan Mayo, Jim Callis, and Sam Dykstra, 3/26/2025

• Starting Pitcher Power Rankings, Opening Day edition, by Andrew Simon, 3/25/2025

• The must-watch storylines for this season, by Anthony Castrovince, 3/25/2025

• 1 important thing we learned about each team this spring, by MLB.com writers, 3/23/2025

• X-factors for 10 teams that missed playoffs in '24, by Thomas Harrigan, 3/22/2025

• 1 stat per MLB team to show you know baseball, by Sarah Langs, 3/22/2025

• The 2025 BBWAA Award winners will be ..., by Jason Foster, 3/22/2025

• Experts predict 2025 AL, NL stat leaders, by Theo DeRosa, 3/21/2025

• 15 Spring Training stat lines that matter, by David Adler, 3/21/2025

• 9 bold (but feasible!) predictions – including this year's champs, by Anthony Castrovince, 3/21/2025

• Tiers of contending teams for the 2025 MLB season, by Mike Petriello, 3/20/2025

• 12 players who need to step up in wake of spring injuries, by Thomas Harrigan, 3/20/2025

• 1 player from each team making the biggest impression, by MLB.com writers, 3/16/2025

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