Box-Toppers’ 2026 daily coverage begins with Friday’s first spring training games

Box-Toppers coverage of the 2026 Major League Baseball season begins with the first spring training games Friday.

Since 1995, Box-Toppers has tracked each Major League game played, tracking 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 2025 year-end All-Star teams

Overall Box-Toppers points leader, Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal, leads the Box-Toppers All-Star teams for the 2025 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.

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Four 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.”

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Mariners’ Castillo tops players Wednesday, Sept. 24; Skenes secures NL pitching lead

Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to ninth place in season player rankings.

Also Wednesday, Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes rises to first place among National League pitchers in 2025 Box-Toppers points, passing Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, after earning Player of the Game honors. Skenes, taking his first lead in the category in his final start of 2025, will finish first among NL pitchers for the season. He ranks second overall.

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Reds’ Greene tops players for Thursday, Sept. 18; Dodgers’ Yamamoto rises to 7th

Reds pitcher Hunter Greene is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Also Thursday, Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto rises to seventh place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.

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Brewers’ Woodruff tops players for Saturday, Sept. 6; Tigers’ Skubal extends 2025 lead

Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Also Saturday, Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal extends his lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.

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