Brewers pitcher Adrian Houser is Box-Toppers Player of the Day in Monday’s spring training games.

Houser struck out six over 5 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk, in the 4-0 win over the Rangers.

Houser would have earned 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Box-Toppers Player of the Day if this were a regular season game. Because it’s a preseason exhibition game, no Box-Toppers points are awarded.

Houser earned 1.0 Box-Toppers point in 2020 and earned 2.0 points in 2019.

American League Player of the Day—Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck struck out six over 4 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk, in the 4-0, seven-inning win over the Braves.

Houck would have earned 1.7 Box-Toppers points for being AL Player of the Day in a regular season day. Houck earned 2.7 Box-Toppers points in 2020, his only career points.

Garrett Hampson of the Rockies is Box-Toppers NL Batter of the Day in Monday’s spring training games.

National League Batter of the Day—Garrett Hampson of the Rockies hit a three-run homer and went 2-for-2, scoring three times and driving in three runs, in the 10-2 win over the Padres.

Hampson would have earned 1.5 Box-Toppers points for being NL Batter of the Day in a regular season day. Hampson earned no Box-Toppers points in 2020, playing in 53 games. He earned 1.0 Box-Toppers points in 2019, his only career point.

Santiago Espinal of the Blue Jays is Box-Toppers AL Batter of the Day in Monday’s spring training games.

American League Batter of the Day—Santiago Espinal of the Blue Jays hit a three-run homer and went 2-for-3, scoring once and driving in five runs, in the 13-7 win over the Phillies.

Espinal would have earned 1.5 Box-Toppers points for being AL Batter of the Day in a regular season day. Espinal made his Major League debut July 25, 2020, has appeared in 26 regular season games, but has yet to earn Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors in a regular season game and so has 0.0 career Box-Toppers points.

Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers is Box-Toppers Player of the Game in Monday’s spring training win over the Yankees.

Notable—Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers, who ranks second in career Box-Toppers points among active batters, earned Player of the Game honors in Monday’s 5-2 win over the Yankees.

Cabrera (HR 2-3 R 3BI) would have earned 1.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Game in a regular season day.

Cabrera has 153.4 career Box-Toppers points earned each season from 2003 to 2020, second among active batters in career points behind Albert Pujols of the Angels (202.8). Cabrera ranks 22nd among all players in career points since 1995, when Box-Toppers tracking began, fourth among all batters. He earned 2.5 points in 2020 and 3.0 points in 2019.

There were 14 games played Monday. No Player of the Game was named in three of the games that ended in ties (Mets 3, Cardinals 3; Astros 2, Nationals 2 and Mariners 5, Reds 5). Box-Toppers’ Player of the Game winners for the other 11 games are listed in the chart below.

Scoring—No Box-Toppers points are awarded in exhibition games. Were it a regular season day, Houser would have earned 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day and Houck would have earned 1.7 points for being AL Player of the Day. Hampson and Espinal would have each earned 1.5 points for being their league’s Batter of the Day. All of Monday’s other Players of the Game (listed in the chart below) would have earned 1.0 Box-Toppers point.

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.

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Top player from each game
Listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score (BTG)





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    BTG
    Game
    Player
    AB
    R
    H
    BI
    
    IP
    H
    R
    ER
    BB
    K
  


    MLB
    +8.2
    MIL 4, TEX 0
    Adrian Houser, (W 1‑0)
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    5.2
    2
    0
    0
    1
    6
  

    AL
    +7.1
    BOS 4, ATL 0 (F/7)
    Tanner Houck, (W 2‑0)
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    4.1
    2
    0
    0
    1
    6
  

    
    +7.0
    `KC 5, CLE 4
    Brady Singer
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    5.0
    2
    0
    0
    1
    5
  

    BAT
    +6.0
    COL 10, SD 2
    Garrett Hampson, 2B
    2
    3
    2
    3
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    BAT
    +5.0
    TOR 13, PHI 7
    Santiago Espinal, SS
    3
    1
    2
    5
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +4.2
    LAD 10, LAA 2
    Julio Urías, (W 3‑1)
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    5.2
    2
    1
    1
    0
    3
  

    
    +4.0
    TB 8, BAL 3 (F/7)
    Willy Adames, SS
    2
    2
    2
    2
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +4.0
    SF 7, OAK 2
    Logan Webb, (W 2‑0)
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    6.0
    4
    1
    1
    1
    5
  

    
    +3.0
    CHC 7, ARI 1
    Willson Contreras, C
    3
    2
    3
    1
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +3.0
    DET 5, NYY 2
    Miguel Cabrera, 1B
    3
    1
    2
    3
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +3.0
    MIN 5, PIT 3
    Matt Canterino, (S 1)
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    2.0
    2
    0
    0
    0
    3
  

    
    +0.0
    NYM 3, STL 3
    N/A
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +0.0
    HOU 2, WSH 2
    N/A
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

    
    +0.0
    SEA 5, CIN 5
    N/A
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
    ‑
  

No points are awarded for exhibition games, but were this an actual regular season day, this is how points would be awarded:


MLB—Overall Box-Toppers Player of the Day, worth 2.0 total Box-Toppers points.

  AL—Overall American League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box-Toppers points.

  NL—Overall National League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box-Toppers points.

  BAT—Top AL or NL Batter of the Day, worth 1.5 total Box-Toppers points.

N/A—Not applicable. No Player of the Game was chosen because the game ended in a tie.

All other players listed here earn Player of the Game honors, worth 1.0 Box-Toppers point.

` Pitcher had a no-decision in the game and did not pick up a win or a save.

Box-Toppers point totals of the day’s top players

Here are Box-Toppers point totals of each of the Player of the Game winners. No points are awarded during spring training games, so all players have 0.0 Box-Toppers points for 2021. Players are ranked by their Box-Toppers point total in 2020 (’20). Also shown is their point total for the period 2016-2020 (’16-20) and their career point total.

Player of the Game	Pos	Team	’20	’16‑20	Career
Singer, Brady 4337	pi sp	kc al	4.0	4.0	4.0
Houck, Tanner 4342	pi sp	bos al	2.7	2.7	2.7
Cabrera, Miguel 1776	dh	det al	2.5	20.5	153.4
Contreras, Willson 3776	ca	chi nl	2.0	14.5	14.5
Urias, Julio 3652	pi sp mr cp	lad nl	1.0	13.7	13.7
Houser, Adrian 4162	pi sp cp	mil nl	1.0	3.0	3.0
Webb, Logan 4258	pi sp	sf nl	1.0	2.7	2.7
Adames, Willy 4041	ss	tb al	0.0	3.0	3.0
Hampson, Garrett 4252	cf	col nl	0.0	1.0	1.0
Santiago Espinal*	ss	tor al	0.0	0.0	0.0
Matt Canterino*	pi cp	min al	0.0	0.0	0.0

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