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Reds pitcher Hunter Greene is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after both earned Player of the Game honors: Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman rises to third place and Astros pitcher Hunter Brown rises to eighth place.
Read MoreAstros pitcher Framber Valdez is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani is the new leader in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, Padres pitcher Michael Wacha rises to 10th place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MorePirates pitcher Mitch Keller is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to eighth place in season player rankings.
Keller struck out 13 over seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and no walks, in the 4-0 win over the Orioles.
Read MoreTigers pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to seventh place in season player rankings.
Also Wednesday, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw rises to fifth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning National League Player of the Day honors. Plus, Jarren Duran of the Red Sox rises to first place among American League batters in 2023 Box-Toppers points after earning Player of the Game honors Wednesday.
Read MoreRangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi is Saturday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Saturday, three players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after each earned Player of the Game honors—Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman rises to second place, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw rises to ninth place and Pirates pitcher Vince Velasquez rises to 10th place.
Read MoreBlue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day, rising to regain the lead in season player rankings.
Also Sunday, two other players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after earning Player of the Game honors—Rangers pitcher Jacob deGrom rises to second place and Shohei Ohtani of the Angels rises to fifth place.
Read MoreTigers pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors. Plus, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has now earned Box-Toppers points in 16 straight seasons—tied for the third-longest active streak—after earning National League Player of the Day honors Tuesday.
Read MoreDiamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen is Monday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Monday, Mets pitcher Max Scherzer extended his streak of consecutive seasons earning Box-Toppers points to 15, tied for the fifth-longest active streak. Plus, Yordan Alvarez of the Astros rises to 10th place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Batter of the Day honors.
Read MoreWhite Sox pitcher Dylan Cease is Thursday’s Opening Day Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Thursday, Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole has now earned Box-Toppers points in 11 straight seasons after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreMarlins pitcher Sandy Alcantara is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Friday’s spring training games.
Alcantara struck out eight over three scoreless and hitless innings, allowing no walks, in the 3-2 win over the Astros. Alcantara did not earn the win, picking up a no-decision, because the Astros took the lead after he exited.
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The New York Mets are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2023 preseason rankings.
Meanwhile, the Texas Rangers made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the World Series champion Houston Astros saw the biggest decline.
Read MoreMets pitcher Max Scherzer is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Saturday’s spring training games.
Scherzer struck out eight over seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and one walk, in the 2-0 win over the Astros.
Read MoreNo single player leads more than two of Box-Toppers’ main leaderboards at the end of 2022.
Max Scherzer, who led five of the leaderboards at the close of 2021, most of any player, is now one of six players to lead two of the 18 leaderboards after the 2022 season.
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Could 2023 be the season Clayton Kershaw passes Randy Johnson for the “all-time” lead in career Box-Toppers points?
Or could this coming season be the year when Kershaw loses the lead among active players in career Box-Toppers points to either Max Scherzer or Justin Verlander?
Read MoreAngels pitcher Shohei Ohtani 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.
Ohtani earned 40.8 Box-Toppers points combined in 2021 and 2022 to lead all players in that span, while Scherzer earned 104.6 from 2017-2022, most in that span.
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Astros pitcher Justin Verlander tops Box-Toppers list of the top 100 players of 2022.
Verlander had 26.0 Box-Toppers points during the regular season. Verlander came back after sitting out most of the previous two seasons, recovering from Tommy John surgery. He earned 1.0 Box-Toppers point in 2020 and none in 2021. His 26.0 point gain from 0.0 in 2021 to 26.0 in 2022 is the largest single-season point gain for any player since Box-Toppers tracking began in 1995.
Read MoreIn 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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During the 2022 season, Justin Verlander rose from sixth to fifth place on Box-Toppers “all-time” career points top 10 list.
It was the only player movement among Box-Toppers “all-time” career points top 10 players overall, among the top 10 pitchers and among the top 10 batters. Retired pitcher Randy Johnson still leads all players in career Box-Toppers points with 282.5 (tracking began in 1995).
Read MoreMets pitcher Max Scherzer leads players in Box-Toppers points since the start of 2017.
Scherzer has 104.6 Box-Toppers points over the period 2017-2022, 2.2 points ahead of second-ranked player Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole, who has 102.4 points over that span.
Read MoreAngels pitcher Shohei Ohtani has more Box-Toppers points over the past two seasons than any other player.
Ohtani has earned 40.8 Box-Toppers points over 2021 and 2022. He ranked second among all players in 2021 with 24.7 Box-Toppers points and 12th among all players in 2021 with 16.1 points. Ohtani ranked second among American League pitchers in 2022 and third among AL pitchers in 2021.
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.