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Kerry Carpenter of the Tigers is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Top 10 players
Here are the top 10 players in 2025 Box-Toppers points (BTP) earned in the regular season through Monday, June 2.| Player | Pos | Team | BTP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zack Wheeler | pi sp | Phillies | 11.1 |
| 2 | Yoshinobu Yamamoto | pi sp | Dodgers | 9.0 |
| 3 | Carlos Rodón | pi sp | Yankees | 8.7 |
| 4 | Garrett Crochet | pi sp | Red Sox | 8.4 |
| 5 | Tarik Skubal | pi sp | Tigers | 8.0 |
| 6 | Bryan Woo | pi sp | Mariners | 8.0 |
| 7 | Joe Ryan | pi sp | Twins | 7.7 |
| 8 | Kris Bubic | pi sp | Royals | 7.7 |
| 9 | Hunter Brown | pi sp | Astros | 7.4 |
| 10 | Sonny Gray | pi sp | Cardinals | 7.0 |
Other Player of the Game winners Monday include Hunter Goodman of the Rockies, Padres pitcher Stephen Kolek and Mike Trout of the Angels, earning his first Player of the Game honor in nearly two years.
Player of the Day
Carpenter hit three home runs and went 3-for-5, scoring three times and driving in five runs, in the 13-1 win over the White Sox.
Carpenter earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day, his first points of the season, and ranks 189th among all players, 30th among American League batters.
Carpenter becomes the sixth batter in 2025 to win overall Player of the Day honors, surpassing the number of times (five) batters won Player of the Day honors in the entire 2024 season.
Other batters winning Player of the Day honors in 2025 are:
Rhys Hoskins of the Brewers on May 14.
Gleyber Torres of the Yankees on May 12.
Jake Meyers of the Astros on May 3.
Brandon Nimmo of the Mets on April 28.
Aaron Judge of the Yankees on March 29.
Pitchers have won overall Player of the Day honors in the other 64 days of the season. In 2024, only five batters won Player of the Day honors in the 185 days of the season, with pitchers winning in 180 days.
National League Player of the Day
Hunter Goodman of the Rockies (2HR 3-5 3R 3BI in the 6-4 win over the Marlins) earns 1.7 Box-Toppers points, giving him 3.2 for the season, 17th among NL batters.
AL and NL Batters of the Day
There are no separate AL and NL Batters of the Day for Monday because the overall Player of the Day is AL batter Kerry Carpenter and the overall NL Player of the Day is batter Hunter Goodman.
Notable
Padres pitcher Stephen Kolek has the most 2025 Box-Toppers points among Monday’s Player of the Game winners.
Kolek (5.2IP 3H 0R 2BB 3K ND in the 1-0, 10-inning win over the Giants) earns 1.0 Box-Toppers point, giving him 4.0 for the season, 70th among all players and 29th among NL pitchers.
Also notable
Mike Trout of the Angels earned Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors for the first time in nearly two years Monday.
Career Box-Toppers points—Active AL batters 1—Paul Goldschmidt #Yankees 88.0 2—Mike Trout #Angels 85.2* 3—Giancarlo Stanton #Yankees 78.9 4—Aaron Judge #Yankees 71.9 5—José Ramírez #Guardians 69.8 6—Jose Altuve #Astros 63.0 *Earns 1.0 B-T pt as Player of Game MO www.box-toppers.com/blog/2025/6/...
— Box-Toppers Baseball (@boxtoppers.bsky.social) Jun 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Trout (HR 3-4 R 3BI in the 7-6 win over the Red Sox) last earned Player of the Game honors June 18, 2023. Trout has played in just 75 games since then—about a quarter of the Angels’ total games—as he has repeatedly battled injury. In July 2023, he fractured his left hand hamate bone fouling off a pitch, missing all but one game the rest of the season. In late April 2024, he suffered a torn left knee meniscus, missing the rest of the season. And on April 30, Trout suffered a bone bruise in his surgically repaired left knee and was out until May 30. Monday was his fourth game since returning from his most recent injured-list stint.
Trout ranks second among active AL batters in career Box-Toppers points (85.2) behind Paul Goldschmidt of the Yankees (88.0). Trout had earned Box-Toppers points in 13 consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2023, but that streak was snapped when he earned no points in 2024, playing in just 29 total games.
Debut
Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe made his Box-Toppers debut Monday with his first career Player of the Game honor.
Uribe (1IP 0H 0R 0BB 2K ND in the 3-2 win over the Reds) made his Major League debut July 8, 2023, and was playing in his 76th career game.
Scoring
Carpenter earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day.
Goodman earns 1.7 points for being NL Player of the Day.
All of Monday’s other Player of the Game winners (listed in the chart) earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point.
About Box-Toppers
Box-Toppers tracks who most helps their team win the most games. Using standard box score statistics, Box-Toppers uses a simple formula to determine a Player of the Game for each Major League Baseball game played. That player is the person who contributed most to his team’s win. In regular season games, players earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point for being named Player of the Game and can earn bonus points for being Player of the Day or top player or batter in their league for the day.
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Box‑Toppers Player of the Game winners
Here is the top player from each of the day’s games listed from highest to lowest Box‑Toppers game score (BTG).| 6/2 | BTG | Game | Player of the Game | AB | R | H | BI | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLB | +6.0 | DET 13, CHW 1 | Kerry Carpenter DH | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | |
| NL | +4.0 | COL 6, MIA 4 | Hunter Goodman C | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | |
| +4.0 | `NYM 4, LAD 3 (F/10) | Paul Blackburn | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
| +3.2 | `SD 1, SF 0 (F/10) | Stephen Kolek | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | 5.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
| +3.0 | MIN 10, ATH 4 | Byron Buxton CF | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ||
| +3.0 | LAA 7, BOS 6 | Mike Trout DH | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ||
| +3.0 | `MIL 3, CIN 2 | Abner Uribe (H, 16) | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | ‑ | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
AL—Overall American League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box‑Toppers points.
NL—Overall National League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box‑Toppers points.
BAT—Top AL or NL Batter of the Day, worth 1.5 total Box‑Toppers points.
All other players listed here earn Player of the Game honors, worth 1.0 Box‑Toppers point.
` Pitcher had a no‑decision in the game and did not pick up a win or a save.
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Box-Toppers point totals of the day’s Player of the Game winners
Here are Box-Toppers point totals of each of the Player of the Game winners. Players are ranked by their Box-Toppers point total in 2025 (’25). Also shown is their point total for this season and last (’24-’25), the period 2020-2025 (’20-25) and each players’ career point total. Also shown is how their 2025 Box-Toppers point total compares with their 2024 total (+/-).Back to top
| Player of the Game | Pos | Team | ’25 | ’24‑25 | ’20‑25 | Career | +/‑ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolek, Stephen 5046 | pi sp | sd nl | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | +3.0 |
| Goodman, Hunter 5033 | dh ca | col nl | 3.2 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.2 | +0.2 |
| Buxton, Byron 3604 | cf | min al | 2.5 | 7.5 | 16.5 | 29.2 | -2.5 |
| Carpenter, Kerry 4711 | dh | det al | 2.0 | 6.0 | 10.5 | 10.5 | -2.0 |
| Blackburn, Paul 3869 | pi sp | nym nl | 1.0 | 5.0 | 13.7 | 16.7 | -3.0 |
| Trout, Mike 2949 | dh cf | ana al | 1.0 | 1.0 | 14.5 | 85.2 | +1.0 |
| Uribe, Abner 5195 | pi mr | mil nl | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | +1.0 |
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