Angels’ Ohtani tops players for Thursday, May 5, regaining season player rankings lead

Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, regaining the lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings.

Ohtani struck out 11 over seven scoreless innings, allowing six hits and no walks, in the 8-0 win over the Red Sox.

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Angels’ Sandoval tops players for Tuesday, April 26; Rodon, Gilbert, Bassitt rise in player rankings top 10

Angels pitcher Patrick Sandoval is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Also Tuesday, three players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after earning Player of the Game honors—Giants pitcher Carlos Rodon rises to fourth place, Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert rises to eighth and Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt rises to 10th.

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Giants’ Gausman tops players for Sunday, Sept. 26; Rays‘ Baz tops AL players

Giants pitcher Kevin Gausman is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Gausman struck out 11 over six innings, allowing one run, three hits and no walks, in the 6-2 win over the Rockies. Gausman did not earn the win, picking up a no-decision, because the Rockies tied the game after he exited.

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Morton, Scherzer, Torres, Goldschmidt top players in Monday's four league division series games

In four league division series playoff games Monday these are Box-Toppers Players of the Game:

Rays pitcher Charlie Morton, Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, Gleyber Torres of the Yankees and Paul Goldschmidt of the Cardinals.

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A correction: Rays' Blake Snell leads by wider margin after fixing errors in 2018 Box-Toppers stats

Striving to create a more perfect Box-Toppers, I discovered some errors in player tracking in 2018 and have been correcting them in recent weeks.

There were 10 total errors I discovered that changed the Box-Toppers point totals for 17 different players. Those errors were discovered after re-examining about one-third of the 2,430 games played in the 2018 season. So in other words, after looking at about 830 games, I found 10 errors.

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Reds’ Anthony DeSclafani tops players for Friday, Aug. 10; Rays’ Snell rises to 8th in player rankings

Reds pitcher Anthony DeSclafani is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Meanwhile, Rays pitcher Blake Snell rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors Friday.

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