A Box-Toppers look at Thursday’s probable pitching matchups. Teams are paired below with visiting teams on top and home teams on the bottom. Each team’s starting pitcher is shown with their Box-Toppers point total from 2022 (’22), over a two-year period (’21-22), over a six-year period (’17-22) and their career point total.
* Player has yet to earn Box-Toppers points.
Starters subject to change.
What are those numbers after players' names?
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| Game | Starter | ’22 | ’21‑22 | ’17‑22 | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHW | Cease, Dylan 4231 | 2.0 | 16.4 | 18.4 | 18.4 |
| CLE | Plesac, Zach 4168 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 15.5 | 15.5 |
| NYY | Montgomery, Jordan 3814 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 16.7 | 16.7 |
| DET | Undecided | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| SF | DeSclafani, Anthony 3441 | 0.0 | 12.7 | 26.4 | 38.1 |
| NYM | Carrasco, Carlos 2885 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 53.6 | 100.1 |
| TOR | Gausman, Kevin 3191 | 0.0 | 13.7 | 32.5 | 56.7 |
| BOS | Houck, Tanner 4342 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 9.7 | 9.7 |
| MIN | Ryan, Joe 4539 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| KC | Greinke, Zack 1871 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 61.7 | 217.8 |
| BAL | Wells, Tyler 4428 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OAK | Blackburn, Paul 3869 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| ARI | Davies, Zach 3581 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 19.7 | 28.7 |
| WSH | Rogers, Josh 4555 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| STL | Hicks, Jordan 3991 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| MIA | Lopez, Pablo 4028 | 0.0 | 9.4 | 23.1 | 23.1 |
| PIT | Wilson, Bryse 4048 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| CHC | Leiter, Mark Jr. 3834 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| TEX | Hearn, Taylor* | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| SEA | Gonzales, Marco 3408 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 31.5 | 34.5 |
Starters subject to change.
What are those numbers after players' names?
Chart is sortable. Click a column header to re-sort the chart by the values in that column. Refresh page to restore chart to default, game-by-game view.
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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