Yankees pitcher Will Warren is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Sunday’s spring training games.
Other standout winners include Shea Langeliers of the Athletics, Ryan Waldschmidt of the Diamondbacks and Royals pitcher Michael Wacha.
Read MoreYankees’ Schlittler tops players for Saturday, Sept. 27; Cubs’ Taillon tops NL players
Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Other Player of the Game winners Saturday include Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon, Royals pitcher Michael Wacha, Zach Cole of the Astros, Giants pitcher Justin Verlander and Sal Stewart of the Reds.
Read MoreReds’ Singer tops players for Friday, Aug. 1; Padres’ Pivetta maintains 3rd place
Reds pitcher Brady Singer is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta maintains third place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Other Player of the Game winners Friday include Royals pitcher Michael Wacha and Warming Bernabel of the Rockies.
Read MoreCubs’ Brown tops players for Saturday, May 31; Cardinals’ Gray rises to 8th place
Cubs pitcher Ben Brown is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Cardinals pitcher Sonny Gray rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Other Player of the Game winners Saturday include Royals pitcher Michael Wacha, Junior Caminero of the Rays and Max Muncy of the Dodgers.
Read MoreCardinals’ Gray tops players for Wednesday, May 7; Fried, Greene rise in top 10 rankings
Cardinals pitcher Sonny Gray is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after both earned Player of the Game honors:
Yankees pitcher Max Fried rises to fourth place overall and first place among American League pitchers.
Reds pitcher Hunter Greene rises to fifth place overall.
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 MoreGuardians’ Fry, Yankees’ Cole top players in Thursday’s AL Division Series games
David Fry of the Guardians and Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Thursday’s two American League Division Series playoff games.
The New York Yankees win their division series over the Kansas City Royals and advance to the AL Championship Series. The Cleveland Guardians tie their series with the Detroit Tigers which will conclude with Game 5 Saturday in Cleveland.
Read MoreMets’ Quintana tops players in Wednesday’s league division series playoff games
Mets pitcher Jose Quintana tops players in Wednesday’s four league division series playoff games.
Other Player of the Game winners in Wednesday’s league division series games:
Beau Brieske of the Tigers.
Tommy Kahnle of the Yankees.
Gavin Lux of the Dodgers.
Guardians’ 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.
Source: MLB.com
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 MoreOrioles’ Burnes tops players Saturday, Sept. 14; Braves’ Sale rises to 3rd in rankings
Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Braves pitcher Chris Sale rises to third place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. In addition, Willy Adames of the Brewers rises to lead National League batters in 2024 Box-Toppers points after earning NL Batter of the Day honors.
Read MoreDiamondbacks’ Smith tops players Sunday, Sept. 8; Braves’ Sale rises to 4th place
Pavin Smith of the Diamondbacks is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Braves pitcher Chris Sale rises to fourth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreMets’ Severino tops players Saturday, Aug. 17; Royals’ Wacha tops AL players
Mets pitcher Luis Severino is Saturday's Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Severino pitched a complete-game, four-hit shutout, striking out eight and walking one, in the 4–0 win over the Marlins.
Read MoreRoyals’ Wacha tops players Friday, July 19; Guardians’ Bibee rises to 5th in rankings
Royals pitcher Michael Wacha is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Guardians pitcher Tanner Bibee rises to fifth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreRoyals’ Wacha tops players for Saturday, April 6; Dodgers’ Yamamoto tops NL players
Royals pitcher Michael Wacha is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Aaron Judge of the Yankees is Box-Toppers American League Batter of the Day, his second Player of the Game honor of 2024, and rises to fourth place in season player rankings.
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Dodgers lead 2024 Box-Toppers preseason team rankings; Rays top AL teams
The Los Angeles Dodgers are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2024 preseason rankings.
Meanwhile, the New York Mets made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the San Diego Padres saw the biggest decline.
Read MoreCubs’ Imanaga, Rays’ Littell top players in spring games for Thursday, March 14
Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Thursday’s spring training games.
Imanaga struck out nine over 4 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks, in the 3-1 win over the Athletics.
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Braves, Astros, Mariners among leaders in Box-Toppers offseason team rankings
The Atlanta Braves are Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team going into 2024, with a roster mostly intact from 2023 when they had baseball’s best record.
Meanwhile, the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners are Box-Toppers’ top two American League teams, with the Mariners having one of the best offseason improvements of any team so far. And also, while the Los Angeles Dodgers have made big offseason splashes adding Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernandez, their offseason ranking has actually fallen from third place last season to fourth place now.
Read MorePadres’ Wacha tops players for Saturday, Sept. 30; Verlander rises to 4th on ‘all-time’ list
Padres pitcher Michael Wacha is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, Astros pitcher Justin Verlander passes Pedro Martinez, rising to fourth place among all players since Box-Toppers tracking began in 1995, after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
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