Mike Yastrzemski of the Braves is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Friday’s spring training games.
Other standout winners include Jasson Domínguez of the Yankees and newly acquired Mets pitcher Freddy Peralta.
Read MoreFour Box-Toppers points leaders among players named to 2025 All-MLB First Team
Four Box-Toppers points leaders are among players selected for 2025’s 16-member “All-MLB” Team. Five other Box-Toppers leaders are among the “All-MLB” Second Team.
The All-MLB team is selected with half the vote coming from fans and half coming from an expert panel. Unlike the selections for baseball’s All-Star Game, players are chosen not based on their affiliation with the American League or National League. Instead, players are selected from all Major League Baseball teams, regardless of league affiliation, and are designated as “First Team” or “Second Team.”
Read MoreHow 2025 Silver Slugger winners fared in Box-Toppers rankings
Seven of the 20 batters winning Silver Slugger Awards in 2025 were also among the leaders at their positions in 2025 Box-Toppers point totals.
The awards are given to the top batter in each position in both leagues, voted on by Major League Baseball coaches and managers. Box-Toppers, analyzing traditional box scores, tracks which players most help their teams win the most games, awarding points for the top player in each game.
Read MoreRays’ Rasmussen tops players for Tuesday, June 3; Yankees’ Rodón rises to 2nd place
Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodón rises to second place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors, extending his lead among American League pitchers. Other Player of the Game winners Tuesday include Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks and Bobby Witt Jr. of the Royals.
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Box-Toppers picks Dodgers over Orioles in 2025 World Series, plus our awards forecasts
Box-Toppers picks the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the 2025 World Series, beating the predicted American League champion Baltimore Orioles.
Box-Toppers projects the Dodgers will have the most wins among all teams—108—and that National League teams will be among the most dominant. Eight of the 15 NL teams are projected to have as many or more wins as the best American League teams (89).
Read MoreRed Sox’ Story, Dodgers’ Wrobleski top players in spring games of Friday, March 7
Trevor Story of the Red Sox is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Friday’s spring training games.
Other Player of the Game winners Friday include Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski, Bobby Witt Jr. of the Royals and Iván Herrera of the Cardinals.
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Dodgers, Mets, Phillies among leaders in Box-Toppers offseason team rankings
The Los Angeles Dodgers are Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team going into 2025 but with player injuries factored in, the New York Mets hold the overall edge.
The current 2025 roster of last year’s World Series champion Dodgers accumulated 118.7 Box-Toppers points in 2024, most of any team. However, with several players injured and expected to miss time in 2025, their injury-adjusted Box-Toppers point total drops to 106.7, fifth among all teams.
Read MoreBox-Toppers 2024 year-end All-Star teams
Overall Box-Toppers points leader, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, leads the Box-Toppers All-Star teams for the 2024 regular season.
The American League and National League All-Star teams are composed of the players with the highest Box-Toppers point totals by position in each league. In addition to nine batters in each league are the top four starting pitchers in each league and the top closing pitcher.
Read MoreBox-Toppers batting leaders Judge, Ohtani win Most Valuable Player awards
Aaron Judge of the Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers, who both led their league’s batters in Box-Toppers points in 2024, won the season’s Most Valuable Player Awards Thursday.
Judge, who led American League batters with 13.0 Box-Toppers points, won the AL award and Ohtani, who led National League batters with 11.0 Box-Toppers points, won the NL award.
Read MoreBox-Toppers’ top-ranked batters—Judge, Ohtani—win 2024 Hank Aaron Awards
Box-Toppers’ top two-ranked batters won the 2024 Hank Aaron Awards for top offensive players.
Aaron Judge of the Yankees, who led American League batters with 13.0 Box-Toppers points, won the AL award and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers, who led National League batters with 11.0 Box-Toppers points, won the NL award.
Read MoreSeven Box-Toppers points leaders among players named to 2024 All-MLB First Team
Seven Box-Toppers points leaders are among players selected for 2024’s 16-member “All-MLB” Team announced Thursday.
Three other Box-Toppers leaders were chosen for the “All-MLB” Second Team.
The All-MLB team was selected with half the vote coming from fans and half coming from an expert panel. Unlike the selections for baseball’s All-Star Game, players on not selected based on their affiliation with American League or National League. Rather, all players are chosen from all Major League Baseball regardless of league as “First Team” or “Second Team” players.
Read MoreHow 2024 Silver Sluggers winners fared in Box-Toppers rankings
Eight of the 20 batters winning Silver Slugger Awards in 2024 were also among the leaders at their positions in 2024 Box-Toppers point totals.
The awards are given to the top batter in each position in both leagues, voted on by Major League Baseball coaches and managers. Box-Toppers, analyzing traditional box scores, tracks which players most helps their teams win the most games, awarding points for the top player in each game.
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Box-Toppers points leaders are finalists in 5 of 6 major postseason player awards
In five of the six major postseason player awards, the 2024 Box-Toppers points leader for each honor is among the finalists announced by baseball writers Monday.
Here are the five awards for which Box-Toppers top-ranked players are among the finalists:
American League Cy Young Award—Tarik Skubal of the Tigers.
National League Cy Young Award—Zack Wheeler of the Phillies.
AL Most Valuable Player—Aaron Judge of the Yankees.
NL Most Valuable Player—Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers.
AL Rookie of the Year—Luis Gil of the Yankees.
A Box-Toppers look at postseason awards—For 1st time in 30 years, our picks may win
Box-Toppers points leaders have never won all four major postseason awards since tracking began in 1995.
But this year, in the 30th season of tracking, there is a chance that the four Box-Toppers points category leaders (both league’s batters and pitchers) may win the four major awards (both league’s Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards).
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Box-Toppers’ AL Division Series preview: Tigers vs. Guardians, Royals vs. Yankees
Both American League Division Series begin Saturday.
The Detroit Tigers face the Cleveland Guardians in one best-of-five game series and the Kansas City Royals face the New York Yankees in the other. The top two AL seeds, the Yankees (first) and the Guardians (second) received byes from the first round of playoffs and face the winners of the best-of-three Wild Card series played this week.
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A Box-Toppers preview of the four Wild Card Series beginning Tuesday, Oct. 1
The Wild Card round of Major League Baseball’s postseason begins Tuesday with four best-of-three series.
All series take place at the higher-seed’s home ballpark. The winners of each series will face one of their league’s top-two seeded teams in league divisional series beginning Saturday.
Read MorePhillies’ Schwarber tops players Wednesday, Aug. 7; Tigers’ Skubal rises to 2nd place
Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal rises to second place in Box-Toppers season player rankings, extending his lead among American League pitchers, after earning Player of the Game honors. Also, Yankees pitcher Luis Gil maintains fifth place in season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreReds’ Spiers tops players Monday, July 29; Royals’ Witt tops AL players
Reds pitcher Carson Spiers is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Spiers struck out four over five scoreless innings, allowing one hit and two walks, in the 7- 1 win over the Cubs.
Read MoreYankees’ Rodon tops players Monday, July 22; Reds’ Greene tops NL players
Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodon is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Pirates relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman earned Box-Toppers points in his 15th consecutive season after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreA look at Box-Toppers’ All-Star teams as 1st phase of voting concludes this week
With the first phase of voting wrapping up this week for the 2024 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, here’s a look at Box-Toppers points leaders at each position in both leagues, through the games of Tuesday, June 25.
The first phase of fan All-Star voting closes Thursday at noon (Eastern time) and the second phase, with finalist voting only, runs from June 30 to July 3. Here is more information about how that works. The All-Star Game is Tuesday, July 16, in Arlington, Texas.
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