Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta rises to third place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreMarlins’ Meyer tops players for Monday, April 21; Brown, Meyer rise into top 10 rankings
Marlins pitcher Max Meyer is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to ninth place in season player rankings.
Also Monday, Astros pitcher Hunter Brown rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreBraves’ Schwellenbach tops players for Friday, April 4; Luzardo, Imanaga rise in top 10
Braves pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Phillies pitcher Jesús Luzardo rose to third place and Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga rose to fourth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after both earned their second Player of the Game honor of 2025.
Read MoreBrewers’ Cortes tops players for Thursday, April 3; Yankees’ Judge rises to 1st place
Brewers pitcher Nestor Cortes is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Thursday, Aaron Judge of the Yankees rises to first place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Batter of the Day honors.
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Gerrit Cole leads players in Box-Toppers points over past 6 seasons (2019-24)
Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole leads players in Box-Toppers points since the start of 2019.
Cole has 104.1 Box-Toppers points over the period 2019-24, 22.5 points ahead of second-ranked player, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, who has 81.6 over that span.
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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 MoreA pitchers vs. batters breakdown of each team’s Box-Toppers point total for 2024
In 2024, teams with the most Box-Toppers points earned by pitchers generally ranked higher in overall Box-Toppers team rankings.
For example, the Philadephia Phillies led all teams with 124.9 Box-Toppers points. Pitchers earned 78.0 of those points, fifth-most among all teams. Box-Toppers’ seven top-ranked teams were all among the top 10 in points earned by pitchers.
However, the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers were a notable anomaly. While the team finished eighth overall in Box-Toppers points (113.7), they finished 11th in points earned by pitchers (66.2) and third in points earned by batters (47.5).
Read MoreBox-Toppers 2024 year-end All-Star teams
Overall Box-Toppers points leader, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, leads the Box-Toppers All-Star teams for the 2024 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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Postseason awards wrap-up: Box-Toppers leaders win 4 of 6 major honors in 2024
Box-Toppers’ choices for baseball’s major postseason player awards won four of six 2024 honors:
Aaron Judge of the Yankees won the American League Most Valuable Player Award.
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers won the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal won the AL Cy Young Award.
Yankees pitcher Luis Gil won the AL Rookie of the Year Award.
Box-Toppers batting leaders Judge, Ohtani win Most Valuable Player awards
Aaron Judge of the Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers, who both led their league’s batters in Box-Toppers points in 2024, won the season’s Most Valuable Player Awards Thursday.
Judge, who led American League batters with 13.0 Box-Toppers points, won the AL award and Ohtani, who led National League batters with 11.0 Box-Toppers points, won the NL award.
Read MoreBox-Toppers’ top-ranked batters—Judge, Ohtani—win 2024 Hank Aaron Awards
Box-Toppers’ top two-ranked batters won the 2024 Hank Aaron Awards for top offensive players.
Aaron Judge of the Yankees, who led American League batters with 13.0 Box-Toppers points, won the AL award and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers, who led National League batters with 11.0 Box-Toppers points, won the NL award.
Read MoreSeven Box-Toppers points leaders among players named to 2024 All-MLB First Team
Seven Box-Toppers points leaders are among players selected for 2024’s 16-member “All-MLB” Team announced Thursday.
Three other Box-Toppers leaders were chosen for the “All-MLB” Second Team.
The All-MLB team was 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 on not selected based on their affiliation with American League or National League. Rather, all players are chosen from all Major League Baseball regardless of league as “First Team” or “Second Team” players.
Read MoreHow 2024 Silver Sluggers winners fared in Box-Toppers rankings
Eight of the 20 batters winning Silver Slugger Awards in 2024 were also among the leaders at their positions in 2024 Box-Toppers point totals.
The awards are given to the top batter in each position in both leagues, voted on by Major League Baseball coaches and managers. Box-Toppers, analyzing traditional box scores, tracks which players most helps their teams win the most games, awarding points for the top player in each game.
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A Box-Toppers look at postseason awards—For 1st time in 30 years, our picks may win
Box-Toppers points leaders have never won all four major postseason awards since tracking began in 1995.
But this year, in the 30th season of tracking, there is a chance that the four Box-Toppers points category leaders (both league’s batters and pitchers) may win the four major awards (both league’s Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards).
Read MoreAlonso, Stanton top players in Friday’s League Championship Series games
Pete Alonso of the Mets and Giancarlo Stanton of the Yankees are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Friday’s two League Championship Series games.
In the National League, the New York Mets extend their best-of-seven-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, now trailing 3-2. In the American League, the New York Yankees take a 3-1 lead in their best-of—seven game series against the Cleveland Guardians.
Read MoreALCS Preview: Top-ranked, top-seeded Yankees favored over Guardians
The New York Yankees, Box-Toppers’ top-ranked American League team and the top seed among AL teams in the postseason, are favored over the Cleveland Guardians in the AL Championship Series.
The Yankees have the edge in overall Box-Toppers points and in starting and relief pitchers. However, the Guardians hold a surprising edge among the likely starting nine batters.
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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.
Read MoreD-backs’ Gallen tops players Wednesday, Sept. 25; Mariners’ Kirby rises to 9th place
Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, Mariners pitcher George Kirby rises to ninth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreD-backs’ Pfaadt tops players Thursday, Sept. 19; Ohtani has best game for batter in 2024
Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Thursday, Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers records the second-highest Box-Toppers game score for a batter in the 30 years of Box-Toppers player tracking. He did it on the day he became the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season.
Read MoreMariners’ Kirby tops players Sunday, Sept. 15; Yankees’ Judge extends AL batting lead
Mariners pitcher George Kirby is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to 10th place in season player rankings.
Also Sunday, Aaron Judge of the Yankees increases his 2024 Box-Toppers points lead among American League batters after earning Player of the Game honors. In addition, National League Most Valuable Player favorite Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers earns Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors, but only ranks 14th among NL batters in 2024 Box-Toppers points.
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