Brewers pitcher Kyle Harrison is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Braves pitcher Chris Sale rises to seventh place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreMarlins’ Stowers tops players for Sunday, July 13; Yamamoto, Gray rise in top 10 rankings
Kyle Stowers of the Marlins is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after both earned Player of the Game honors—Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto rises to seventh place and Cardinals pitcher Sonny Gray rises to 10th place.
Read MoreAstros’ Altuve tops players for Friday, July 4; Mariners’ Woo rises to 4th place
Jose Altuve of the Astros is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo rises to fourth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreTigers’ Carpenter tops players for Monday, June 2; Rockies’ Goodman tops NL players
Kerry Carpenter of the Tigers is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
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.
Read MoreBrewers’ Hoskins tops players for Wednesday, May 14; Yankees’ Warren tops AL players
Rhys Hoskins of the Brewers is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Other Player of the Game winners Wednesday include Yankees pitcher Will Warren, Phillies pitcher Jesús Luzardo and Riley Greene of the Tigers.
Read MoreTigers’ Torres tops players for Monday, May 12; Rangers’ Mahle rises to 9th place
Gleyber Torres of the Tigers is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Rangers pitcher Tyler Mahle rises to ninth place in season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreGuardians’ Bibee tops players in Saturday’s opening league division series games
Guardians pitcher Tanner Bibee tops players in Saturday’s four league division series playoff games.
Other Player of the Game winners in Saturday’s league division series games:
Luke Weaver of the Yankees.
Reed Garrett of the Mets.
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers.
Blue Jays’ Gausman tops players Sunday, Aug. 25; Nationals’ Herz tops NL players
Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Gausman struck out 10 over seven innings, allowing one run, two hits and no walks, in the 8-2 win over the Angels.
Read MoreBox-Toppers’ big dippers—players whose 2023 point total declined most from 2022: Carlos Rodon leads list
Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodon had the biggest decline in Box-Toppers points from 2022 to 2023.
Rodon had 19.8 Box-Toppers points in 2022 with the Giants, sixth among all players and third among National League pitchers. But moving to the Yankees in 2023, he earned only 1.0 Box-Toppers point. That 18.8-point decline was the biggest among all players.
Read MoreRays’ Rasmussen tops players for Monday, April 3; Brewers’ Peralta tops NL players
Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Rasmussen struck out seven over six scoreless innings, allowing two hits and no walks, in the 6-2 win over the Nationals.
Read MorePadres’ Snell tops players for Wednesday, Sept. 21; Guardians’ McKenzie tops AL players
Padres pitcher Blake Snell is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Snell struck out 13 over seven scoreless innings, allowing two hits and two walks, in the 1-0 win over the Cardinals.
Read MoreRays’ McClanahan tops players for Wednesday, May 11; Marlins’ Alcantara tops NL players
Rays pitcher Shane McClanahan is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
McClanahan struck out 11 over seven scoreless innings, allowing three hits and one walk, in the 4-2, 10-inning win over the Angels. McClanahan did not earn the win, picking up a no-decision, because the Angels tied the game after he exited.
Read MoreRays’ Glasnow tops players in Saturday, March 27’s spring training games
Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Saturday’s spring training games.
Glasnow struck out 10 over five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks, in the 2-0 win over the Twins.
Read MoreBox-Toppers’ big dippers—players whose 2020 point total declined most from 2019: Justin Verlander leads list
Astros pitcher Justin Verlander had the biggest decline in Box-Toppers points from 2019 to 2020.
Verlander, who earned 27.5 Box-Toppers points in 2019 (second among all players), earned 1.0 point in 2020. His decline of 26.5 points was ahead of Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole, whose 7.4 points in 2020 represented a 24.8-point drop from the 32.2 points he earned to lead all players in 2019.
Read MoreA look at Box-Toppers All-Star teams for past season (2020) and past 2 seasons (2019-20)
A look at Box-Toppers All-Star teams for 2020 seems incomplete. So for added context, Box-Toppers is also looking at the All-Star teams over the past two seasons, 2019-20.
Read MoreBraves’ Wright, Dodgers’ Urias among top players in Thursday's league division series games
In four league division series playoff games Thursday these are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners:
Braves pitcher Kyle Wright is top player in Thursday’s 7-0 win over the Marlins.
Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias is top player in Thursday’s 12-3 win over the Padres.
Carlos Correa of the Astros is top player in Thursday’s 11-6 win over the Athletics.
Yankees pitcher Chad Green is top player in Thursday’s 5-1 win over the Rays.
Box-Toppers’ AL Division Series previews: Astros vs. Athletics, Yankees vs. Rays
Both American League Division Series begin Monday.
The Houston Astros face the Oakland Athletics in one best-of-five game series and the New York Yankees take on the Tampa Bay Rays in the other series.
Read MoreBox-Toppers top shortstops by time frame (after 2019 season)
Miguel Tejada has the most Box-Toppers points of any shortstop since tracking began in 1995.
Tejada, who played from 1997 to 2013 primarily for the Athletics and Orioles, but also for the Astros, Giants, Padres and Royals, earned 102.3 career Box-Toppers points. That is 25.9 Box-Toppers points ahead of the second-place shortstop in career Box-Toppers points, Derek Jeter (76.4), who played for the Yankees from 1995 to 2014.
Read MoreBox-Toppers top second basemen by time frame (after 2019 season)
Jeff Kent has a dominating lead in Box-Toppers points among second basemen since tracking began in 1995.
Kent, who played from 1992 to 2008 primarily for the Giants, Dodgers, Mets, Astros and Blue Jays, earned 109.7 Box-Toppers points from 1995 to the end of his career—that’s 30.3 more points than the second-place second baseman since 1995, Robinson Cano of the Mariners (79.4).
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Yankees top Box-Toppers 2020 preseason team rankings; champion Nationals rank 2nd
The New York Yankees are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2020 preseason rankings, rising from fifth place at the end of the 2019 season.
The 2019 World Series-champion Washington Nationals, ranked second at the end of 2019, maintain second place in the 2020 preseason rankings.
Meanwhile, the Toronto Blue Jays made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the Houston Astros—2019’s top-ranked team and American League champion—had the biggest decline.
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