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Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day and rises to third place in season player rankings, first among National League pitchers.
Also Monday, Adam Duvall of the Marlins rises to first place among NL batters in 2021 Box-Toppers points after earning NL Batter of the Day honors.
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Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole rises to lead Box-Toppers weekly player rankings report, passing Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow, who led the past four weeks.
Meanwhile, Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers rises to lead National League pitchers. Plus, both league batting leaders maintain their leads—J.D. Martinez of the Red Sox leads American League batters and Trevor Story of the Rockies leads NL batters.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Gerrit Cole is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day and rises to take the lead in season player rankings.
Also Wednesday, Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff rises to fourth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning National League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreGiants pitcher Anthony DeSclafani is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Marlins pitcher Trevor Rogers rises to third place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, Shohei Ohtani of the Angels earns Player of the Game honors as a pitcher but does it for batting, becoming apparently the first American League pitcher to earn Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors while batting.
Read MoreDiamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, pitching a seven-inning no-hitter.
Also Sunday, Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff rises to fourth in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreRangers pitcher Kohei Arihara is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Meanwhile, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after both earn Player of the Game honors Monday—J.D. Martinez of the Red Sox rises to third place and Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff rises to sixth place.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, 2020’s Box-Toppers Player of the Year, Indians pitcher Shane Bieber, earned his first Player of the Game honor of 2021, as American League Player of the Day.
Read MoreIndians pitcher Shane Bieber, who led all players in Box-Toppers points in 2020, also led all pitchers in strikeouts during the season.
Ten of the top 11 strikeouts leaders were also among the top 14 overall players in Box-Toppers points in 2020.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Woodruff struck out 10 over eight scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk, in the 3-0 win over the Cardinals.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, three players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 after each earned Player of the Game honors—Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom rises to second, Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola rises to fourth and Twins pitcher Kenta Maeda rises to sixth.
Plus, Luke Voit of the Yankees regains the lead in 2020 Box-Toppers points among American League batters after earning AL Batter of the Day honors Friday.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Meanwhile, Rangers pitcher Lance Lynn rises to lead Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors. He is one of three players Wednesday to win Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors for a second time this season.
Read MoreThe Milwaukee Brewers visit the Washington Nationals in the National League one-game Wild Card playoff game Tuesday.
Starting pitchers are:
Brewers—Brandon Woodruff, 7.7 Box-Toppers points, ranked 94th among all players, 40th among NL pitchers.
Nationals—Max Scherzer, 15.4 Box-Toppers points, ranked 15th among all players, ninth among NL pitchers.
Read MoreIndians pitcher Shane Bieber is the most deserving player not selected to the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star teams.
Bieber has 11.1 Box-Toppers points in 2019, eighth among all players and fourth among American League pitchers. Other key players not chosen for the All-Star Game who rank among Box-Toppers top players this season include Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg, Marcell Ozuna of the Cardinals and Eloy Jimenez of the White Sox.
Read MoreJ.P. Crawford of the Mariners is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Astros pitcher Justin Verlander extends his lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreBrewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Twins pitcher Jake Odorizzi rises to seventh place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreRed Sox pitcher David Price is Box-Toppers Player of the Game in Wednesday’s World Series Game 2.
The Boston Red Sox win 4-2 to take a 2-0 lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven game series.
Price struck out five over six innings, allowing two runs, three hits and three walks.
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The Boston Red Sox have a considerable edge on paper over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 World Series.
The Red Sox were the runaway leaders in team Box-Toppers points from August on and were serious playoff contenders all season long. Not only did the Red Sox finish far atop Box-Toppers team rankings for the season, they had baseball’s best record in 2018 and won a team-record 108 games.
Read MoreDodgers pitcher Walker Buehler is Box-Toppers Player of the Game Saturday as Los Angeles eliminates the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series.
Read MoreJesus Aguilar of the Brewers is Box-Toppers Player of the Game in Friday’s National League Championship Game 6, as Milwaukee pulls even in the series with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Read MoreRed Sox pitcher David Price is Box-Toppers Player of the Game in Thursday’s American League Championship Series Game 5, as Boston eliminates the Houston Astros.
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.