The Tampa Bay Rays maintain their lead in Box-Toppers team rankings for the sixth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers maintain their lead among National League teams and the Texas Rangers are the week’s hottest team.
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Rays lead Box-Toppers team rankings for 5th week; Dodgers rise to lead NL teams
The Tampa Bay Rays maintain their lead in Box-Toppers team rankings for the fifth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the week’s hottest team, rise to lead National League teams.
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Rays lead Box-Toppers team rankings for 4th week; Pirates rise to lead NL teams
The Tampa Bay Rays maintain their lead in Box-Toppers team rankings for the fourth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Pirates rise to lead National League teams and the Toronto Blue Jays are the week’s hottest team.
Read MoreRangers’ Garcia tops players for Saturday, April 22; Yankees’ Cole regains player lead
Adolis Garcia of the Rangers is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, recording what is possibly the fifth-highest Box-Toppers game score by a batter since tracking began in 1995.
Also Saturday, Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole regains first place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, Rays pitcher Shane McClanahan rises to fifth place in player rankings.
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Rays maintain Box-Toppers team rankings lead for 3rd week, Brewers top NL teams
The Tampa Bay Rays maintain their lead in Box-Toppers team rankings for the third straight week.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers continue to lead National League teams and the Texas Rangers and New York Mets are the week’s hottest teams.
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Tampa Bay Rays lead Box-Toppers’ 1st team rankings report of 2023
The Tampa Bay Rays lead Box-Toppers first weekly team rankings report of the 2023 season.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers lead National League teams.
Read MoreBox-Toppers picks Mets over Yankees in 2023 World Series
Box-Toppers picks the New York Mets to win the 2023 World Series, beating the predicted American League champion New York Yankees.
Box-Toppers projects the Mets will have the most wins among all teams—104—and will be one of three teams with more than 100 wins, along with the Yankees and the San Diego Padres.
Read MoreWill 2023 rules changes finally place a check on pitchers’ decade of dominance?
Will baseball’s 2023 rules changes finally place a check on pitchers’ decade-plus dominance over batters?
Or will the changes prove as ineffectual as the 2021 crackdown on pitchers using sticky, foreign substances on baseballs?
Read MoreA look at Box-Toppers season-by-season AL & NL pitching & batting leaders, 1995-2022
In 2022, Justin Verlander led American League pitchers in season Box-Toppers points for the third time in his career, tied for the seventh-most times a player has led a season points category.
Also in 2022, the New York Mets and Miami Marlins each had their first Box-Toppers points category leader—Pete Alonso and Sandy Alcantara— leaving the Pittsburgh Pirates as the only team to never have a player lead a category since tracking began in 1995.
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Yankees, Mets lead Box-Toppers offseason team rankings, landing biggest free agents
The New York Yankees and New York Mets lead Box-Toppers offseason rankings after landing the winter’s two biggest free agents.
The Yankees rank first after Carlos Rodon Thursday agreed to a free agent deal. Rodon earned 19.8 Box-Toppers points in 2022 with the Giants, sixth overall and third among National League pitchers. He ranked second among all free agents going into the 2023 season.
Read MoreBox-Toppers’ AL Division Series previews: Guardians vs. Yankees, Mariners vs. Astros
Both American League Division Series begin Tuesday.
The Houston Astros face the Seattle Mariners in one best-of-five game series and the New York Yankees face the Cleveland Guardians in the other. The top two AL seeds, the Astros (first) and the Yankees (second) received byes from the first round of playoffs and face the winners of the best-of-three Wild Card series played over the weekend.
Read MoreGuardians’ McKenzie tops players in Saturday’s Wild Card playoff games
Guardians pitcher Triston McKenzie tops players in Saturday’s four Wild Card playoff games:
Other Player of the Game winners in Saturday’s Wild Card series games: Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola, Cal Raleigh of the Mariners and Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom.
Read MoreGuardians’ Bieber tops players in Friday’s opening Wild Card round playoff games
Guardians pitcher Shane Bieber tops players in Friday’s four Wild Card playoff games:
Other Player of the Game winners in Friday’s Wild Card series games: Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo and Jurickson Profar of the Padres.
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Source: MLB.com.
A Box-Toppers preview of the four Wild Card Series that begin Friday, Oct. 7
The new Wild Card round of Major League Baseball’s postseason begins Friday with four best-of-three series. Here is a Box-Toppers look at the eight teams competing in the four Wild Card round series.
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Dodgers lead over Astros narrows in final Box-Toppers team rankings report for 2022
The Los Angeles Dodgers finish the 2022 season leading Box-Toppers team rankings, but the gap between them and the second-place Houston Astros has narrowed.
The Dodgers lead for the ninth straight week, but their cushion over the second-place team, which once was as much as 8.9 Box-Toppers points, has narrowed in the final standings to just 1.7 points.
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Yankees top Box-Toppers team rankings for 5th week, Dodgers lead NL teams
The New York Yankees lead Box-Toppers weekly team rankings report for the fifth straight week.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the week’s hottest team, rise to lead National League teams.
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Week’s hottest team Milwaukee Brewers rise to 1st in Box-Toppers team rankings
The Milwaukee Brewers, the week’s hottest team, rise to lead Box-Toppers weekly team rankings report.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Angels, last week’s overall leader, fall to second place, but still lead American League teams.
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Dodgers top Box-Toppers 2022 preseason team rankings; White Sox top AL teams
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.
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Braves hold Box-Toppers points edge over Astros in 2021 World Series
The Atlanta Braves hold the Box-Toppers points advantages over the Houston Astros in the 2021 World Series.
The Braves accumulated more total Box-Toppers points during the season than the Astros, their likely starting lineup for the Fall Classic has more Box-Toppers points than the Astros and their starting batting lineup and probable top four starting pitchers also outdistance the Astros in points.
Read MoreLuis Garcia tops players as Astros eliminate Red Sox in AL Championship Series Game 6
Astros pitcher Luis Garcia is Box-Toppers Player of the Game in Friday’s clinching American League Championship Series Game 6.
Garcia struck out seven over 5 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk, in the 5-0 win over the Red Sox. The Astros win the best-of-seven game series, 4-2, and advance to the World Series.
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