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Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, taking the lead among American League pitchers in season player rankings.
Other Player of the Game winners Friday include Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki, Anthony Seigler of the Red Sox and Rafael Devers of the Giants.
Read MoreRays pitcher Drew Rasmussen is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Other top Friday performers include Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki, Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, Giants third baseman Matt Chapman, and Nationals pitcher Foster Griffin.
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.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers hold Box-Toppers points advantages over the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2025 World Series.
The American League champion Blue Jays are the higher-seeded postseason team and have home-field advantage, hosting up to four of the possible seven games of the World Series. But that comes by virtue of only one more win than the Dodgers, the National League champion. The Blue Jays won 94 games in the 2025 regular season while the Dodgers won 93.
However, the Dodgers hold a Box-Toppers points advantage in key player categories, notably in starting pitching.
Read MoreDodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow and Andrés Giménez of the Blue Jays are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Thursday’s league championship series games.
The Los Angeles Dodgers take a commanding 3-0 lead over the Milwaukee Brewers in the best-of-seven-game National League Championship Series, while the Toronto Blue Jays tie the American League Championship Series with the Seattle Mariners at two games apiece.
Read MoreDodgers pitcher Blake Snell and Jorge Polanco of the Mariners are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Monday’s league championship series games.
Snell becomes the first player to win Player of the Game honors three times this postseason and Polanco becomes the third player—and first batter—to win Player of the Game honors at least twice this postseason.
Read MoreBox-Toppers favors the top-seed Milwaukee Brewers over the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2025 National League Championship Series.
The Dodgers are the third-seeded NL playoff team but rank higher than the Brewers in final 2025 Box-Toppers team rankings—in fifth place overall with their players accumulating 117.9 Box-Toppers points during the season, third among NL teams and most among surviving postseason teams. Brewers players have a combined 112.6 Box-Toppers points in 2025, ninth among all teams and fifth among NL teams.
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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 MoreDodgers pitcher Landon Knack is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Wednesday’s regular season opening series in Tokyo, Japan.
Knack struck out three over two scoreless innings of relief, allowing one hit and no walks, in the 6-3 win over the Cubs, as the Dodgers sweep the two-game series.
Read MoreSpencer Jones of the Yankees is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Tuesday’s spring training games.
Other Player of the Game winners Tuesday include Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga and Brenton Doyle of the Rockies.
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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 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.