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The Los Angeles Dodgers are Box-Toppers’ top-ranked team going into 2025 but with player injuries factored in, the New York Mets hold the overall edge.
The current 2025 roster of last year’s World Series champion Dodgers accumulated 118.7 Box-Toppers points in 2024, most of any team. However, with several players injured and expected to miss time in 2025, their injury-adjusted Box-Toppers point total drops to 106.7, fifth among all teams.
Read MoreEight of the 20 batters winning Silver Slugger Awards in 2024 were also among the leaders at their positions in 2024 Box-Toppers point totals.
The awards are given to the top batter in each position in both leagues, voted on by Major League Baseball coaches and managers. Box-Toppers, analyzing traditional box scores, tracks which players most helps their teams win the most games, awarding points for the top player in each game.
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Box-Toppers points leaders among 2024 free agents include Blake Snell, Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes and Clayton Kershaw.
Blake Snell and Juan Soto are among this season’s free-agent players with the most 2024 Box-Toppers points.
Snell leads the entire class, earning 15.7 Box-Toppers points in 2024 with the Giants, most among all free-agent players, seventh among all players and fifth among National League pitchers.
Soto has the most 2024 Box-Toppers points among all free-agent batters, earning 11.0 with the Yankees, seventh among all free agents, 43rd among all players in 2024 and second among American League batters (behind only teammate Aaron Judge’s 13.0).
Read MorePadres pitcher Joe Musgrove is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Musgrove struck out nine over seven scoreless innings, allowing one hit and no walks, in the 7-0 win over the Mets.
Read MoreAngels pitcher Patrick Sandoval is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Pete Alonso of the Mets rises to 10th place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning Player of the Game honors.
Read MoreYankees pitcher Jameson Taillon is Friday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Friday, Pete Alonso of the Mets rises to second place in Box-Toppers season player rankings—rising to first among all National League players—after earning NL Player of the Day honors.
Read MoreBlue Jays pitcher Robbie Ray is Wednesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Wednesday, two players rise in Box-Toppers season player rankings top 10 list after earning Player of the Game honors—Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff rises to fifth place and Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler rises to ninth place.
Read MoreWhite Sox pitcher Reynaldo Lopez is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Sunday, Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg becomes the first new leader in Box-Toppers points among National League pitchers in more than three months after earning Player of the Game honors. Strasburg also rises to third place in overall Box-Toppers season player rankings.
Read MoreAngels pitcher Shohei Ohtani is Sunday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Ohtani struck out 12 over seven scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk, in the 6-1 win over the Athletics.
For Ohtani, the rare two-way player in his rookie season after playing in his native Japan, this was his Box-Toppers debut, the first time in his career he earned Player of the Game honors. And while he has done well in his four games so far as a designated hitter, his Box-Toppers debut comes in his second career pitching start, a game in which he carried a perfect game into the seventh inning.
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.