Giants pitcher Blake Snell is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Snell struck out eight over seven scoreless innings, allowing one hit and no walks, in the 3-2 win over the Twins.
Read MoreGiants’ Webb tops players for Thursday, April 18; Rays’ Pepiot rises to 8th in rankings
Giants pitcher Logan Webb is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Thursday, Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreRays’ Pepiot tops players for Sunday, April 7; Brewers’ Contreras tops NL players
Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, two players rise into Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after both earn their second Player of the Game honor of 2024—Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco rises to third place and Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga rises to fifth.
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Dodgers lead 2024 Box-Toppers preseason team rankings; Rays top AL teams
The Los Angeles Dodgers are the top-ranked team in Box-Toppers’ 2024 preseason rankings.
Meanwhile, the New York Mets made the biggest offseason improvement in players’ accumulated Box-Toppers points, while the San Diego Padres saw the biggest decline.
Read MoreRays’ Pepiot, Giants’ Roupp top players in spring games for Thursday, March 21
Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Thursday’s spring training games.
Pepiot struck out six over five innings, allowing one run, one hit and no walks, in the 6-5 win over the Phillies. Pepiot did not earn the win, picking up a no-decision, because the Phillies took the lead after he exited.
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Braves, Astros, Mariners among leaders in Box-Toppers offseason team rankings
The Atlanta Braves are Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team going into 2024, with a roster mostly intact from 2023 when they had baseball’s best record.
Meanwhile, the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners are Box-Toppers’ top two American League teams, with the Mariners having one of the best offseason improvements of any team so far. And also, while the Los Angeles Dodgers have made big offseason splashes adding Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernandez, their offseason ranking has actually fallen from third place last season to fourth place now.
Read MoreHenderson named to Box-Toppers 2023 All-Rookie Team but Carroll falls short
Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles, the American League Rookie of the Year, is among the players on Box-Toppers 2023 All-Rookie Team.
But Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks, voted National League Rookie of the Year, is not among the players on the team, having finished sixth among rookie outfielders with 3.0 Box-Toppers points in 2023.
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Box-Toppers’ NL Division Series preview: Phillies vs. Braves, Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers
Both National League Division Series begin Saturday.
The Philadelphia Phillies face the Atlanta Braves in one best-of-five game series and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the other. The top two NL seeds, the Braves (first) and the Dodgers (second) received byes from the first round of playoffs and face the winners of the best-of-three Wild Card series played this week.
Read MoreDodgers’ Pepiot tops players for Thursday, Sept. 7; Mariners’ Castillo rises to 8th
Dodgers pitcher Ryan Pepiot is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Thursday, Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo rises to eighth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreRangers’ Hearn tops players for Sunday, Aug. 21; Reds’ Fraley tops NL players
Rangers pitcher Taylor Hearn is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Hearn struck out five, closing the game over three scoreless and hitless innings, allowing no walks, in the 7-0 win over the Twins. Hearn earned the save.
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