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Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to seventh place in season player rankings.
Also Tuesday, Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski extends his lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. In addition, Rangers pitcher Jacob deGrom rises to eighth place in player rankings after earning top player honors Tuesday.
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Source: MLB.com
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.
Read MoreAstros pitcher Framber Valdez is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Valdez pitched a complete-game two-hitter, striking out seven and allowing one run and three walks, in the 5-1 win over the Athletics.
Read MoreAlex Rodriguez has the most career Box-Toppers points of all Major League Baseball number-one draft picks since 1990.
Rodriguez, who was the first pick in the 1993 draft, earned 187.0 Box-Toppers points during his career from 1994 to 2016, which is 10th overall since 1995 and second among all batters (behind Albert Pujols of the Angels with 201.8).
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.