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Giants pitcher Logan Webb is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, Phillies pitcher Cristopher Sánchez bolsters his lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. In addition, Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani rises to second place in season player rankings, earning Player of the Game honors for a second straight day. He did it Tuesday as a designated hitter and Wednesday as a starting pitcher.
Read MorePhillies pitcher Zack Wheeler is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Other Player of the Game winners Sunday include Rangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi, Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman, Gavin Sheets of the Padres and Edgar Quero of the White Sox.
Read MoreReds pitcher Nick Lodolo is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Other Player of the Game winners Wednesday include Vinnie Pasquantino of the Royals, Rangers pitcher Patrick Corbin, Rafael Devers of the Giants and Mets pitcher Sean Manaea.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Ryan Yarbrough is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto rises to second place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreAstros pitcher Yusei Kikuchi is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler rises to lead Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning National League Player of the Day honors. In addition, Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal extends his lead among American League pitchers in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors Saturday.
Read MoreRockies pitcher Cal Quantrill is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Padres pitcher Dylan Cease rises to fifth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreRangers pitcher Cody Bradford is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Royals pitcher Brady Singer rises to first place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, two players extend significant streaks of consecutive seasons earning Box-Toppers points after earning Player of the Game honors Friday—Orioles closer Craig Kimbrel (15 seasons) and Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola (10 seasons).
Read MoreTwins pitcher Bailey Ober is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Ober struck out eight over five scoreless innings, allowing two hits and no walks, in the 11-3 win over the Athletics.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to fifth place in season player rankings.
Woodruff struck out 12 over 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs, four hits and no walks, in the 6-3 win over the Reds.
Read MoreThough Box-Toppers would not have voted David Ortiz as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, it’s hard to argue that his performance on the field was not worthy.
Yet, several other candidates with Hall-of-Fame worthy careers were not voted for induction Tuesday because of their ties to the steroid era. In fact, it can be argued that righteous baseball writers did a noble thing Tuesday by blocking three such candidates—Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa—for their 10th and final time on the ballot.
Read MoreDavid Ortiz is the only player inducted into internet baseball writers’ Hall of Fame for 2022.
None of the nine candidates Box-Toppers voted for Hall induction received the necessary 75 percent support. And Box-Toppers also did not vote for Ortiz.
Read MoreBox-Toppers is voting for nine players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in the 2022 Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) ballot.
Of the nine players, three are in their first year on the ballot—Tim Lincecum, Jake Peavy and Mark Teixeira. The other six all return after not receiving the necessary votes to make the hall last year, including Curt Schilling, who is on the ballot for his 10th and final year.
Read MorePhillies pitcher Aaron Nola is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Nola struck out nine over 8 2/3 innings, allowing one run, four hits and no walks, in the 2-1 win over the Braves.
Read MorePadres pitcher Yu Darvish is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day and rises to third place in season player rankings, taking the 2021 Box-Toppers point lead among National League pitchers.
Darvish struck out 10 over seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and no walks, in the 7-0 win over the Rockies.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Gerrit Cole is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, the active leader in career Box-Toppers points earned his first points of the 2021 season as National League Player of the Day.
Read MoreMets pitcher Jacob deGrom is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to fifth place in season player rankings.
Also Wednesday, Braves pitcher Max Fried rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreMiguel 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 MoreRed Sox pitcher Rick Porcello is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 after earning Player of the Game honors—Diamondbacks pitcher Patrick Corbin rises to eighth place and Indians pitcher Corey Kluber rises to ninth place.
Porcello, Corbin and Kluber are among five players with 10 or more Box-Toppers points this season who earned Player of the Game honors Tuesday.
Read MoreGiants pitcher Andrew Suarez is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Suarez struck out five over seven scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks, in the 2-0 win over the Phillies.
Read MoreMiguel Tejada has the most Box-Toppers points of any shortstop since tracking began in 1995. Derek Jeter ranks a distant second.
Other leaders at shorstop include Troy Tulowitzki, Elvis Andrus, Corey Seager and Stephen Drew.
Read MoreBox-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. Players earn Box-Toppers points 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.