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The Milwaukee Brewers, the week’s hottest team, rise to lead this week’s Box-Toppers team rankings report.
The Brewers pass the Chicago White Sox, leaders for the past four weeks, but the White Sox maintain their lead among American League teams for the fifth straight week.
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The Chicago White Sox lead Box-Toppers team rankings for the fourth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers continue to lead National League teams for the third week and the Houston Astros are the week’s hottest team.
Read MoreAs the first phase of voting for the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game wraps up next week, here’s a look at Box-Toppers points leaders at each position in both leagues.
The first phase of voting is open now and continues until June 24. Here is more information about how that works. The All-Star Game is Tuesday, July 13, at Coors Field in Denver.
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The Chicago White Sox lead Box-Toppers team rankings for the third straight week.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers continue to lead National League teams for the second week and the Cincinnati Reds are the week’s hottest team.
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The Chicago White Sox lead Box-Toppers team rankings for the second straight week.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers rise to lead National League teams and the Los Angeles Angels are the week’s hottest team.
Read MoreVoting opened this week for Major League Baseball’s 2021 All-Star Game.
Here is a look at the voting process and a look at Box-Toppers points leaders at each position in both leagues.
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Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow leads Box-Toppers weekly player rankings for the second straight week and for the sixth time in the past eight weeks.
Meanwhile, Brandon Woodruff of the Brewers rises to lead National League pitchers, J.D. Martinez of the Red Sox maintains his lead among American League batters and Adam Duvall of the Marlins maintains his lead among NL batters.
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The Chicago White Sox, the week’s hottest team, regain the lead in this week’s Box-Toppers team rankings, passing last week’s leader, the New York Yankees.
Meanwhile, the San Diego Padres lead National League teams for the third week in a row.
Read MoreAngels pitcher Alex Cobb is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, White Sox pitcher Lance Lynn rises to ninth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
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The Chicago White Sox lead Box-Toppers weekly team rankings report for the third straight week.
Meanwhile, the San Diego Padres rise to lead National League teams and the Tampa Bay Rays are the week’s hottest team.
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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.
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The Chicago White Sox lead Box-Toppers weekly team rankings report for the second straight week and are the hottest team of the past week.
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals rise to lead National League teams.
Read MoreDiamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day and rises to sixth place in season player rankings.
Bumgarner struck out nine over seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and no walks, in the 11-3 win over the Marlins.
Read MoreDodgers pitcher Julio Urias is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Urias struck out 11 over seven scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk, in the 1-0 win over the Mariners.
Read MoreA Box-Toppers preview of the 2021 baseball season.
First, a commentary on baseball and COVID-19. Though case rates are declining and vaccines are slowly arriving, coronavirus cases are higher now than during most of the shortened 2020 baseball season. Yet baseball is on the fast track to return to normalcy.
Second, an introduction to the Box-Toppers metric, used to track and compare players since 1995.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2021 preseason rankings. They also ended 2020 as Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team and World Series champions.
Meanwhile, the New York Mets made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the Chicago Cubs saw the biggest decline.
Read MoreEight of the top 14 runs batted in leaders were among the top 100 players in Box-Toppers points in 2020.
Six of those players were also among their league’s top 10 batters during the pandemic-shortened season.
Read MoreAnalyzing 26 years of Box-Toppers points leaders among American League and National League pitchers and batters each season.
Read MoreIndians pitcher Shane Bieber tops Box-Toppers list of the top 100 players of 2020.
Bieber had 11.4 Box-Toppers points during the pandemic-shortened regular season. And because it was such a short season—reduced from 162 games to 60—it is the lowest total to lead all players since Box-Toppers tracking began in 1995, beating the previous low set by Royals pitcher Zack Greinke, who led all players with 21.5 points in 2009.
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.