The Baseball Listicle Lineup for December 16-31, 2024

Issue #212

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 December 16-31, 2024, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Finding Elite Skills: Bat Speed vs. Sprint Speed, by at 12/31/2024

• 5 Baseball Cards to Rev You Up for the New Year, at 12/29/2024

• Red Sox Post Christmas Wish List, at 12/27/2024

• Andruw Jones Deserves Election To Hall of Fame, by Dan Schlossberg at 12/27/2024

• Kickin' It Old School, by at 12/24/2024

• 5 'Surprising Second' Baseball Cards, at 12/22/2024

• The Next Players Who Could Belong In the Hall of Fame, by Paul Semendinger at 12/21/2024

• Being Rickey, by at 12/21/2024

• Giving Pitchers Long-Term Deals is Risky Business, by Dan Schlossberg at 12/20/2024

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

• Here are 8 prospect-related predictions for 2025, by Joe Trezza, 12/31/2024

• Remembering the baseball greats we lost this past year, by Will Leitch, 12/30/2024

• 24 reasons baseball was the BEST in 2024, by Sarah Langs, 12/30/2024

• 18 exciting prospects set for full-season debuts in 2025, by Ben Weinrib, 12/30/2024

• Each team's breakout player for 2025, by MLB.com writers, 12/30/2024

• One prospect to watch for each team in 2025, by MLB.com writers, 12/29/2024

• The 10 rarest, wildest box score lines of 2024, by Andrew Simon, 12/29/2024

• Each team's all-time strikeout king, by Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru, Dylan Svoboda and Manny Randhawa, 12/29/2024

• 15 standout Statcast plays from a memorable 2024 season, by David Adler, 12/28/2024

• 1 (realistic) free-agent target to fit every team, by MLB.com writers, 12/28/2024

• The 10 strangest trades in MLB history, by Anthony Castrovince, 12/28/2024

• The exclusive club that Witt cracked in '24, by Manny Randhawa, 12/27/2024

• 1 stat for every team to marvel at from 2024 season, by Sarah Langs, 12/27/2024

• Breaking down Hall candidates by their peak years, by Brian Murphy, 12/26/2024

• These 9 clubs improved their farm system most in 2024, by Sam Dykstra, 12/26/2024

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