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Justin Verlander of the Astros, who led all pitchers in wins 2019 with 21, ranked second among all players in Box-Toppers points with 27.5.
Verlander’s teammate, Gerrit Cole, who led all players in Box-Toppers points in 2019 with 32.2, ranked second in wins with 20.
Of the 12 pitchers with 16 or more wins in 2019, five of them ranked among the top 10 in Box-Toppers points and 10 of them ranked among the top 50 in Box-Toppers points.
Read MoreBoth National League Division Series begin Thursday.
The Wild Card Colorado Rockies face the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers in one best-of-five game series and the NL East winners, the Atlanta Braves take on the Los Angeles Dodgers, champions of the NL West in the other series.
Read MoreRockies pitcher Antonio Senzatela is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Also Tuesday, J.D. Martinez of the Red Sox rises to first place in Box-Toppers season player rankings among American League batters after earning AL Batter of the Day honors.
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Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.
Puig homered twice and went 2-for-3, scoring three times and driving in four runs, in the 10-2 win over the Padres. It is the first time in his career Puig has earned overall Player of the Day honors. He is in his fifth Major League season and has 11.5 Box-Toppers points, including the 2.0 he earned Thursday.
American League Player of the Day—Geovany Soto of the White Sox hit two homers in the 11-2 win over the Tigers. Soto went 2-for-3 and drove in four runs.
Batters of the Day—There are no separate National League or American League Batters of the Day for Thursday since both the overall Player of the Day and AL Player of the Day are batters—Puig and Soto.
Debuts—Two players made their Box-Toppers debut Thursday, the first time in their career they earned Player of the Game honors:
Scoring—Puig earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day and Soto earns 1.7 points for being AL Player of the Day. All of Thursday's other Players of the Game (listed in the chart below) earn 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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| 4/6 | Score | Game | Player | AB | R | H | BI | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
| MLB | 6.0 | LAD 10, SD 2 | Yasiel Puig, RF | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 6.0 | `COL 2, MIL 1 | Antonio Senzatela | - | - | - | - | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | ||
| AL | 5.0 | CHW 11, DET 2 | Geovany Soto, C | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 3.2 | NYM 6, ATL 2 | Matt Harvey (W,1-0) | - | - | - | - | 6.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3.0 | MIA 4, WSH 3 (F/10) | J.T. Realmuto, C | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 3.0 | SEA 4, HOU 2 | Dan Altavilla (W,1-0) | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 2.2 | TOR 5, TB 2 | Jason Grilli (S,1) | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2.0 | CIN 7, PHI 4 | Adam Duvall, LF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2.0 | ARI 9, SF 3 | David Peralta, RF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2.0 | MIN 5, KC 3 | Brandon Kintzler (S,1) | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1.0 | CHC 6, STL 4 | Kyle Schwarber, LF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1.0 | OAK 5, LAA 1 | Ryon Healy, 1B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Player of Game | Pos | Team | ’17 | ’16-17 | ’12-17 | Career | +/- |
| Puig, Yasiel 3193 | rf | lad nl | 2.0 | 5.5 | 11.5 | 11.5 | -1.5 |
| Soto, Geovany 2409 | ca | chi al | 1.7 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 26.9 | 1.7 |
| Duvall, Adam 3573 | lf | cin nl | 1.0 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 9.0 | -5.5 |
| Realmuto, J.T. 3491 | ca | fla nl | 1.0 | 6.5 | 11.5 | 11.5 | -4.5 |
| Harvey, Matt 3075 | pi sp | nym nl | 1.0 | 4.0 | 37.4 | 37.4 | -2.0 |
| Healy, Ryon 3685 | 1b 3b | oak al | 1.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | -2.0 |
| Grilli, Jason 2209 | pi cp | bal al | 1.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | -5.0 |
| Peralta, David 3370 | rf | ari nl | 1.0 | 1.0 | 12.9 | 12.9 | 1.0 |
| Schwarber, Kyle 3536 | lf ca | chi nl | 1.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 |
| Kintzler, Brandon 3150 | pi cp | min al | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 |
| Altavilla, Dan 3761 | pi mr | sea al | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Senzatela, Antonio 3760 | pi sp | col nl | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Rockies pitcher Antonio Senzatela is Tuesday’s Box-Toppers spring training Player of the Day.
Box-Toppers is tracking several days of spring training during 2017 as a sort of a test and demonstration of the Box-Toppers player tracking metric. Even after 22 seasons of tracking (including sharing those results for the past four seasons on Box-Toppers.com), we need to spend a little time in the batting cage working on the swing and getting in shape for the 2,430 games to be tracked during the regular season.
Senzatela pitched three scoreless innings of middle relief, striking out four and allowing one hit, in the 3-2 win over the Rangers. Senzatela picked up a no decision because after he exited, the Rangers tied the game at 2-2, before the Rockies went ahead in the ninth inning.
Senzatela has yet to make his Box-Toppers debut by earning Player of the Game honors during the regular season.
American League Player of the Day—Marcus Semien of the Athletics doubled and went 3-for-3, scoring once and driving in four runs, in the 21-13 win over the Diamondbacks. Semien had 6.0 Box-Toppers points in 2016 with the Athletics, 39th among AL batters.
National League Batter of the Day—Brock Stassi of the Phillies hit a grand slam and went 2-for-4, scoring twice and driving in four runs, in the 11-6 win over the Tigers. Stassi has yet to make his Box-Toppers debut by earning Player of the Game honors during the regular season.
American League Batter of the Day—There is no separate AL Batter of the Day for Tuesday because the overall AL Player of the Day was batter Marcus Semien.
Scoring—No Box-Toppers points are awarded in spring training games, but if it were the regular season, Senzatela would earn 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day, Semien would earn 1.7 points for being AL Player of the Day and Stassi would earn 1.5 points for being NL Batter of the Day. All of Tuesday’s other Players of the Game (listed in the chart below) would earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point.
Note—Thirteen spring training games were scheduled for Tuesday—nine are listed below. Four games in which Major League teams played against national World Baseball Classic teams are not included. Also not included are three World Baseball Classic games. Should I be including those and tracking those games? I’m just not feeling it. Let me know if you’d like to see Box-Toppers coverage of that tournament.
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.
Box-Toppers strives for accuracy. See a mistake in a post? A wrong name, wrong team, grammar error, spelling goof, etc.? Thanks for pointing it out! Contact Box-Toppers here. Let's fix it and make it right.
Listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score
| 3/7 | Score | Game | Player | AB | R | H | BI | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
| MLB | 6.0 | `COL 3, TEX 2 | Antonio Senzatela | - | - | - | - | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| BAT | 5.0 | PHI 11, DET 6 | Brock Stassi (1B) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| AL | 5.0 | OAK 21, ARI 13 | Marcus Semien (SS) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 3.0 | `SF 4, LAD 2 | Matt Moore | - | - | - | - | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | ||
| 3.0 | `CIN 7, KC 3 | Sal Romano | - | - | - | - | 3.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 2.0 | STL 9, MIA 2 | Jhonny Peralta (3B) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2.0 | NYY 7, TB 6 (F/10) | Kyle Higashioka (C) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2.0 | BOS 5, WSH 3 | Hanley Ramirez (DH) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2.0 | PIT 6, ATL 3 | Steven Brault (W, 2-0) | - | - | - | - | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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. 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.