Diamondbacks' Greinke tops players for Thursday, June 2, rises to 10th in season player rankings, 16th in all-time rankings

Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day and rises to 10th place in season player rankings.

Top 10 players

Here are the top 10 players in Box-Toppers points (BTP) for the 2016 season as of June 2:  

	Player	Pos	Team	BTP
1	Kershaw, Clayton 2494	pi sp	lad nl	14.0
2	Fernandez, Jose 3147	pi sp	fla nl	9.7
3	Cueto, Johnny 2400	pi sp	sf nl	9.0
4	Arrieta, Jake 2738	pi sp	chi nl	8.7
5	Sale, Chris 2806	pi sp	chi al	8.7
6	Machado, Manny 3087	ss 3b	bal al	8.7
7	Matz, Steven 3516	pi sp	nym nl	8.7
8	Hill, Rich 2215	pi sp	oak al	8.4
9	Scherzer, Max 2588	pi sp	dc al	7.0
10	Greinke, Zack 1871	pi sp	ari nl	7.0

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Greinke also rises two spots to 16th place in career Box-Toppers points among all players since 1995, when Box-Toppers tracking began.

Greinke pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out 11 and allowing four hits, in the 3-0 win over the Astros.

Greinke earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points, giving him 7.0 for the season, rising to 10th in season player rankings, seventh among National League pitchers. 

Greinke also now has 153.4 career Box-Toppers points, rising to 16th in “all-time” rankings, passing two players—Greg Maddux (151.7) and Barry Bonds (153.2). (It should be noted that both Bonds and Maddux began their careers before 1995 when tracking began and so both would likely have many more Box-Toppers points if their entire careers were tracked.) Greinke now trails 15th-ranked player Mike Mussina (155.6).

All-time leaders

Here are Box-Toppers top 20 players since record keeping began in 1995:

	Player	Pos	Team	BTP
1	Randy Johnson	pi sp	retired	278.8
2	Pedro Martinez	pi sp	retired	244.8
3	Curt Schilling	pi sp	retired	194.1
4	Alex Rodriguez	dh	nyy al	187.0
5	CC Sabathia	pi sp	nyy al	181.0
6	Albert Pujols	1b dh	ana al	176.3
7	Clayton Kershaw	pi sp	lad nl	173.3
8	Roy Halladay	pi sp	retired	170.7
9	Manny Ramirez	lf dh	retired	167.2
10	Johan Santana	pi sp	free agent	166.6
11	Roger Clemens	pi sp	retired	164.8
12	Felix Hernandez	pi sp	sea al	164.7
13	John Smoltz	pi sp	retired	160.9
14	Tim Hudson	pi sp	retired	157.0
15	Mike Mussina	pi sp	retired	155.6
16	Zack Greinke	pi sp	ari nl	153.4
17	Barry Bonds	lf	retired	153.2
18	Greg Maddux	pi sp	retired	151.7
19	Chipper Jones	3b	retired	149.0
20	Javier Vazquez	pi sp	retired	148.3

List of top 100 players since 1995 (through the 2015 season)

American League Player of the Day—Dae-Ho Lee of the Mariners homered and went 3-for-3, scoring twice and driving in four runs, in the 16-13 win over the Padres.

National League Batter of the Day—Eugenio Suarez of the Reds hit two homers, including a three-run shot, in the 11-4 win over the Rockies. Suarez also doubled and went 3-for-5, scoring three times and driving in four total runs.

Suarez earns 1.5 Box-Toppers points for being NL Batter of the Day, giving him 6.0 for the season and now ranks second among NL batters in season Box-Toppers points.

American League Batter of the Day—There is no separate AL Batter of the Day for Thursday because the AL Player of the Day was batter Dae-Ho Lee.

Debuts—Two players made their Box-Toppers debut Thursday, the first time in their career they earned Player of the Game honors:

• Marlins pitcher Nick Wittgren (3IP 0H 0R 3K W in the 4-3 win over the Pirates) made his Major League debut April 19 and was playing in his seventh career game. He is the 3,647th player to debut in Box-Toppers since record keeping began in 1995.
• Twins pitcher Taylor Rogers (2IP 0H 0R 2K W in the 6-4 win over the Rays) made his Major League debut April 14 and was playing in his ninth career game. He is the 3,648th player to debut in Box-Toppers since record keeping began in 1995.

Scoring—Greinke earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day and Lee earns 1.7 points for being AL Player of the Day. Suarez earns 1.5 points for being NL Batter 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.

Top player from each game

Listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score

6/2	Score	Game	Player of Game	AB	R	H	BI		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
MLB	14.0	ARI 3/HOU 0	Zack Greinke (W,7-3)	-	-	-	-		7.0	4	0	0	0	11
	12.2	SF 6/ATL 0	Madison Bumgarner (W,7-2)	-	-	-	-		7.2	4	0	0	2	11
	6.2	MIL 4/PHI 1	Chase Anderson (W,3-6)	-	-	-	-		5.2	3	1	1	0	6
AL	6.0	SEA 16/SD 13	Dae-Ho Lee, PH-1B	3	2	3	4		-	-	-	-	-	-
	6.0	CHC 7/LAD 2	Kyle Hendricks (W,4-4)	-	-	-	-		8.0	3	2	2	1	6
	6.0	MIA 4/PIT 3	Nick Wittgren (W,1-0)	-	-	-	-		3.0	0	0	0	0	3
BAT	5.0	CIN 11/COL 4	Eugenio Suarez, 3B	5	3	3	4		-	-	-	-	-	-
	4.2	`NYY 5/DET 4	Michael Pineda	-	-	-	-		5.2	7	1	1	0	8
	4.0	MIN 6/TB 4	Taylor Rogers (W,1-0)	-	-	-	-		2.0	0	0	0	0	2
	3.0	BAL 12/BOS 7	Mark Trumbo, RF	4	2	2	3		-	-	-	-	-	-
	1.2	CLE 5/KC 4	Tommy Hunter (W,2-1)	-	-	-	-		1.2	0	0	0	0	0
		`Denotes that the 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 Players of the Game. Players are ranked by their Box-Toppers point total for the current season (16). Also shown are each players’ Box-Toppers point total for this season and last (15-16), the period 2011-2016 (11-16) and each players’ career point total. Also shown is how their 2016 Box-Toppers point total compares with their 2015 total (+/-).  

Player of Game	Pos	Team	16	15-16	11-16	Career	+/-
Greinke, Zack 1871	pi sp	ari nl	7.0	27.7	92.8	153.4	-13.7
Bumgarner, Madison 2753	pi sp	sf nl	7.0	24.0	94.0	99.7	-10.0
Suarez, Eugenio 3355	3b	cin nl	6.0	9.0	11.5	11.5	3.0
Lee, Dae-Ho 3627	1b ph	sea al	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2
Hendricks, Kyle 3386	pi sp	chi nl	4.0	13.7	18.7	18.7	-5.7
Anderson, Chase 3328	pi sp	mil nl	4.0	8.0	13.0	13.0	0.0
Trumbo, Mark 2851	dh rf	bal al	2.5	5.0	28.2	28.2	0.0
Pineda, Michael 2841	pi sp	nyy al	1.0	11.7	29.1	29.1	-9.7
Hunter, Tommy 2623	pi cp	cle al	1.0	2.0	9.0	16.0	0.0
Rogers, Taylor 3648	pi mr	min al	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Wittgren, Nick 3647	pi cp	fla nl	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

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