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Shohei Ohtani of the Angels leads Box-Toppers weekly season player rankings report for the fourth straight week.
Ohtani also leads both American League pitching and batting categories. Meanwhile, Joe Musgrove of the Padres rises to lead National League pitchers and C.J. Cron of the Rockies maintains his lead among NL batters.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Nestor Cortes is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Shohei Ohtani of the Angels extends his lead in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, Giants pitcher Carlos Rodon rises to fifth place in season player rankings.
Read MoreBraves pitcher Max Fried is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to second in season player rankings, first among National League pitchers.
Also Saturday, two other player rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 after earning Player of the Game honors—White Sox pitcher Dylan Cease rises to sixth place and Marlins pitcher Pablo Lopez rises to 10th.
Read MoreWhite Sox pitcher Dylan Cease is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to eighth place in season player rankings.
Also Monday, Braves pitcher Max Fried rises to ninth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreGiants pitcher Carlos Rodon is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Rodon struck out nine over seven innings, allowing two hits, one run and two walks, in the 4-1 win over the Guardians.
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Box-Toppers picks the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the 2022 World Series, beating the predicted American League champion Chicago White Sox.
Box-Toppers projects the Dodgers will have the most wins among all teams—111—and will be the only team with more than 100 wins this season.
Read MorePaul DeJong of the Cardinals is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Wednesday’s spring training games.
DeJong hit a three-run homer, doubled and went 3-for-3, scoring three times and driving in five runs, in the 29-8 win over the Nationals.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2022 preseason rankings. They also ended 2021 as Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team.
Meanwhile, the New York Mets made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the Oakland Athletics saw the biggest decline.
Read MoreSix of the 10 top strikeout leaders in 2021 were also among the top 10 players in Box-Toppers points for the season.
Blue Jays pitcher Robbie Ray led all players with 248 strikeouts. He ranked sixth overall in Box-Toppers points with 17.7, second among American League pitchers. Ray won the AL Cy Young Award.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Gerrit Cole is Box-Toppers’ top-ranked player over the past two seasons while Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer ranks first in points over the past six seasons.
Cole earned 29.8 Box-Toppers points combined in 2020 and 2021 to lead all players in that span, while Scherzer earned 120.3 from 2016-2021, most in that span.
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The Milwaukee Brewers are the top-ranked team going into 2022, leading Box-Toppers offseason team rankings as of mid-December.
Players currently signed to the Brewers 40-man roster accumulated 111.1 Box-Toppers points during the 2021 season, most of any team. The Chicago White Sox rank second overall with 109.2 Box-Toppers points, leading all American League teams.
Read MoreTrey Mancini of the Orioles and Buster Posey of the Giants were named Comeback Players of the Year for 2021 Monday.
Both ranked far outside Box-Toppers’ 25 most-improved players list for 2021 and neither were among Box-Toppers’ top candidate in either league for the player who had the biggest bounce back to a successful season this year.
Read MoreDodgers pitcher Max Scherzer is the only Box-Toppers points leader to win one of nine Players Choice Awards for 2021 as voted by the players’ union.
Scherzer, who led all players in 2021 Box-Toppers points with 25.1, was voted National League Outstanding Pitcher.
Read MoreRed Sox pitcher Nick Pivetta and Leury Garcia of the White Sox are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Sunday’s pair of American League Division Series games.
Read MoreBraves pitcher Max Fried and Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias are Box-Toppers Player of the Game winners in Saturday’s pair of National League Division Series games.
Read MoreBoth American League Division Series begin Thursday.
The AL Wild Card champion Boston Red Sox face the AL East champion Tampa Bay Rays in one best-of-five game series and the AL Central champion Chicago White Sox take on the Houston Astros, champions of the AL West, in the other series.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers finish the 2021 season with a substantial lead in Box-Toppers team rankings.
They lead the team rankings weekly report for the 10th straight time. Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox maintain the lead among American League teams and the San Francisco Giants are the hottest team of the week.
Read MoreWhite Sox pitcher Dylan Cease is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, 2021 Box-Toppers points leader Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer moved closer to securing Box-Toppers Player of the Year honors after second-place player, Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole did not earn Box-Toppers points in his start. Cole trails Scherzer by 2.7 Box-Toppers points with a week left in the season.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers maintain their lead in Box-Toppers weekly team rankings report for the ninth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox maintain the lead among American League teams and the St. Louis Cardinals are the week’s hottest team.
Read MoreReds pitcher Luis Castillo is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler becomes the third player this season to reach 20 Box-Toppers points after earning Player of the Game honors, maintaining his third-place spot in Box-Toppers season player rankings.
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.