Mariners' Felix Hernandez leads Box-Toppers player rankings for 3rd straight week

Here are the top 10 players by category (AL & NL pitching & batting) in Box-Toppers points (BTP) for the 2015 season as of May 7.


AL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP NL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP
1 Hernandez, Felix 2064 pi sp sea al 7.7 1 Cole, Gerrit 3232 pi sp pit nl 6.0
2 Archer, Chris 3194 pi sp tb al 5.0 2 Harvey, Matt 3075 pi sp nym nl 4.7
3 Keuchel, Dallas 3050 pi sp hou al 4.7 3 Cueto, Johnny 2400 pi sp cin nl 4.4
4 Gray, Sonny 3259 pi sp oak al 4.7 4 Bumgarner, Madison 2753 pi sp sf nl 4.0
5 Price, David 2593 pi sp det al 3.7 5 Greinke, Zack 1871 pi sp lad nl 4.0
6 Kazmir, Scott 1947 pi sp oak al 3.7 6 deGrom, Jacob 3343 pi sp nym nl 3.7
7 Gonzalez, Miguel 3062 pi sp bal al 3.7 7 DeSclafani, Anthony 3441 pi sp cin nl 3.7
8 Young, Chris R. 1933 pi mr sp kc al 3.0 8 Harang, Aaron 1599 pi sp phi nl 3.4
9 Carrasco, Carlos 2885 pi sp cle al 3.0 9 Scherzer, Max 2588 pi sp dc nl 3.0
10 Odorizzi, Jake 3291 pi sp tb al 3.0 10 Wainwright, Adam 2150 pi sp stl nl 3.0
AL BATTERS POS TEAM BTP NL BATTERS POS TEAM BTP
1 Cabrera, Miguel 1776 1b det al 4.7 1 Stanton, Giancarlo 2737 rf fla nl 4.5
2 Rodriguez, Alex dh nyy al 4.5 2 Upton, Justin 2411 lf sd nl 4.0
3 Hosmer, Eric 2886 1b kc al 4.0 3 Harper, Bryce 3011 lf dc nl 3.5
4 Trout, Mike 2949 cf ana al 3.0 4 Hechavarria, Adeiny 3445 ss fla nl 3.5
5 Ellsbury, Jacoby 2365 cf nyy al 3.0 5 McCutchen, Andrew 2637 cf pit nl 2.5
6 Rasmus, Colby 2608 lf hou al 3.0 6 Goldschmidt, Paul 2935 1b ari nl 2.5
7 Cespedes, Yoenis 3008 lf det al 2.7 7 Markakis, Nick 2116 rf atl nl 2.5
8 Donaldson, Josh 3144 3b dh tor al 2.5 8 LeMahieu, DJ 3091 2b col nl 2.5
9 Bautista, Jose 2169 rf dh tor al 2.5 9 Carpenter, Matt 2987 3b 2b stl nl 2.5
10 Valbuena, Luis 2600 3b hou al 2.5 10 Howard, Ryan 2040 1b phi nl 2.0

Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez leads all players in Box-Toppers points for the third straight week.

Hernandez has 7.7 Box-Toppers points, up from 6.0 last week.

Pirates pitcher Gerrit Cole is in second place overall and leads all National League players for the second straight week. Cole has 6.0 Box-Toppers points.

Top 10 players

Here are the top 10 players in Box-Toppers points (BTP) for the 2015 season as of May 7.  


Player Pos Team BTP
1 Hernandez, Felix 2064 pi sp sea al 7.7
2 Cole, Gerrit 3232 pi sp pit nl 6.0
3 Archer, Chris 3194 pi sp tb al 5.0
4 Cabrera, Miguel 1776 1b det al 4.7
5 Keuchel, Dallas 3050 pi sp hou al 4.7
6 Gray, Sonny 3259 pi sp oak al 4.7
7 Harvey, Matt 3075 pi sp nym nl 4.7
8 Stanton, Giancarlo 2737 rf fla nl 4.5
9 Rodriguez, Alex dh nyy al 4.5
10 Cueto, Johnny 2400 pi sp cin nl 4.4
What are those numbers after players' names?

The top AL batter for the second straight week is Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers with 4.7 Box-Toppers points. He ranks fourth among all players.

The top NL batter for the fourth straight week is Giancarlo Stanton of the Marlins with 4.5 Box-Toppers points. He ranks eighth among all players.

Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees made a big and perhaps the most surprising rise up Box-Toppers player rankings this week. He earned 2.0 Box-Toppers points over the past week and with 4.5 points, now ranks second among all AL batters this season and ninth among all players. In a season after he was suspended for a year, in which realistically little was expected of an aging hitter who had not performed well since 2010, Rodriguez has far exceeded lowered expectations. And in the two games in which A-Rod earned Player of the Game this past week, he achieved milestones—on May 1, he tied Willie Mays’ home run mark of 660 and on May 7, he passed Mays, hitting home run 661, putting him in fourth place on the all-time home run list.

So far this season, 299 different players have earned Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors. Fifty-six players have more than 2.0 Box-Toppers points.

About Box-Toppers—Box-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. In regular season games, players earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point 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.

Last week’s player rankings report