| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Gausman, Kevin 3191 | pi sp | tor al | 10.0 | 1 | Gallen, Zac 4171 | pi sp | ari nl | 8.7 | |
| 2 | Ohtani, Shohei 3933 | pi sp dh | ana al | 9.4 | 2 | Stroman, Marcus 3327 | pi sp | chi nl | 6.7 | |
| 3 | McClanahan, Shane 4399 | pi sp | tb al | 8.7 | 3 | Kershaw, Clayton 2494 | pi sp | lad nl | 6.1 | |
| 4 | deGrom, Jacob 3343 | pi sp | tex al | 7.7 | 4 | Strider, Spencer 4626 | pi sp | atl nl | 6.0 | |
| 5 | Rasmussen, Drew 4547 | pi sp | tb al | 6.7 | 5 | Wacha, Michael 3276 | pi sp | sd nl | 6.0 | |
| 6 | Eovaldi, Nathan 2928 | pi sp | tex al | 6.7 | 6 | Garrett, Braxton 4341 | pi sp | fla nl | 6.0 | |
| 7 | Castillo, Luis Miguel 3840 | pi sp | sea al | 6.4 | 7 | Keller, Mitch 4230 | pi sp | pit nl | 6.0 | |
| 8 | Brown, Hunter 4729 | pi sp | hou al | 6.4 | 8 | Senga, Kodai 4762 | pi sp | nym nl | 6.0 | |
| 9 | Cole, Gerrit 3232 | pi sp | nyy al | 6.0 | 9 | Scherzer, Max 2588 | pi sp | nym nl | 5.7 | |
| 10 | Rodriguez, Eduardo 3480 | pi sp | det al | 6.0 | 10 | Freeland, Kyle 3763 | pi sp | col nl | 5.7 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Ohtani, Shohei 3933 | pi sp dh | ana al | 9.4 | 1 | Muncy, Max 3969 | 3b | lad nl | 5.0 | |
| 2 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | rf cf dh | nyy al | 7.5 | 2 | Gorman, Nolan 4633 | 2b dh | stl nl | 5.0 | |
| 3 | Arozarena, Randy 4331 | lf | tb al | 6.0 | 3 | Reynolds, Bryan 4169 | lf cf | pit nl | 4.7 | |
| 4 | Noda, Ryan 4791 | 1b ph | oak al | 5.0 | 4 | Outman, James 4699 | cf rf lf | lad nl | 4.7 | |
| 5 | Rizzo, Anthony 3063 | 1b | nyy al | 4.7 | 5 | Fraley, Jake 4430 | lf ph | cin nl | 4.5 | |
| 6 | Paredes, Isaac 4666 | 3b 1b 2b | tb al | 4.5 | 6 | Heyward, Jason 2695 | cf rf | lad nl | 4.5 | |
| 7 | Duran, Jarren 4783 | cf | bos al | 4.5 | 7 | Murphy, Sean 4246 | ca | atl nl | 4.0 | |
| 8 | Yoshida, Masataka 4763 | lf | bos al | 4.5 | 8 | Soto, Juan 3994 | lf | sd nl | 4.0 | |
| 9 | Mountcastle, Ryan 4325 | 1b dh ph | bal al | 4.2 | 9 | Soler, Jorge 3403 | dh rf ph | fla nl | 3.7 | |
| 10 | Alvarez, Yordan 4209 | dh lf | hou al | 4.0 | 10 | Alonso, Pete 4118 | 1b | nym nl | 3.5 |
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Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman regains the lead in this week’s Box-Toppers player rankings report.
Top 10 players
Here are the top 10 in Box-Toppers season player rankings for 2023. Players are ranked by Box-Toppers points (BTP) earned this season through Thursday, June 1.| Player | Pos | Team | BTP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gausman, Kevin 3191 | pi sp | tor al | 10.0 |
| 2 | Ohtani, Shohei 3933 | pi sp dh | ana al | 9.4 |
| 3 | Gallen, Zac 4171 | pi sp | ari nl | 8.7 |
| 4 | McClanahan, Shane 4399 | pi sp | tb al | 8.7 |
| 5 | deGrom, Jacob 3343 | pi sp | tex al | 7.7 |
| 6 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | rf cf dh | nyy al | 7.5 |
| 7 | Rasmussen, Drew 4547 | pi sp | tb al | 6.7 |
| 8 | Eovaldi, Nathan 2928 | pi sp | tex al | 6.7 |
| 9 | Stroman, Marcus 3327 | pi sp | chi nl | 6.7 |
| 10 | Castillo, Luis Miguel 3840 | pi sp | sea al | 6.4 |
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Gausman rises from fifth place last week to take the top spot and also is the new leader among American League pitchers.
Also this week, Max Muncy of the Dodgers rises to lead National League batters. Shohei Ohtani of the Angels maintains his lead among AL batters and Zac Gallen of the Diamondbacks maintains his lead among NL pitchers.
Gausman has 10.0 Box-Toppers points, rising past last week’s leader, Rays pitcher Shane McClanahan, who falls to fourth overall with 8.7 points. Gausman leads over second-place player Shohei Ohtani of the Angels (9.4), who led all players and all AL pitchers Wednesday, before Gausman took the lead Thursday.
This is the third time Gausman has led player rankings this season. He first took the lead April 12 before being passed April 16 and took the lead again April 23 before being passed April 26.
National League batters—Max Muncy of the Dodgers rises to lead the category with 5.0 Box-Toppers points, passing last week’s leader Nolan Gorman of the Cardinals, who falls to second place. Though Muncy and Gorman both have 5.0 Box-Toppers points in 2023, Muncy ranks higher because he has more 2022 Box-Toppers points—7.2 vs. 5.0.
Gorman ranks 32nd among all players.
American League batters—Shohei Ohtani of the Angels leads for the third week with 9.4 Box-Toppers points, picking up 1.0 point in the past week. He leads over second-place AL batter Aaron Judge of the Yankees (7.5 points). Ohtani ranks second among all players.
Ohtani only qualifies to rank among batters because he has earned more than 25 percent of his 2023 Player of the Game honors as a batter. He’s earned three of his eight Player of the Game honors this season as designated hitter; the other five as starting pitcher. He’s earned 3.7 points as a designated hitter and 5.7 as a starting pitcher.
During the previous two seasons, there were periods in which Ohtani qualified to rank among both batters and pitchers, but he finished both 2021 and 2022 ranked solely among pitchers because he earned such an overwhelming majority of his Player of the Game honors as a pitcher. This, even though he played far more games at designated hitter than pitcher. In only his 2018 rookie season did Ohtani qualify to rank among both pitchers and batters, winning Player of the Game honors six total times—three as a pitcher and three as a designated hitter. He qualified only as a designated hitter in 2019, as he recovered from Tommy John surgery and did not pitch that season.
National League pitchers—Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen leads the category for the seventh straight week with 8.7 Box-Toppers points, picking up 1.0 point in the past week. He leads over second-place Marcus Stroman of the Cubs (6.7 points). Gallen ranks third overall this week.
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Players who have earned Box-Toppers points so far in 2023—482 (there were 446 as of last week).
Players with more than 2.0 Box-Toppers points—138 (there were 127 as of last week).
Players who’ve made their Box-Toppers debut so far in 2023 (earning their first career Player of the Game honor)—70 (there were 62 as of last week).
Games completed so far in 2023—847, an average of 56.5 per team.
Percentage of scheduled season completed—34.9.
In the 92 games completed in the past week, pitchers won Player of the Game honors in 54 (58.7 percent), while batters won Player of the Game in 38 (41.3 percent). Batters’ share of overall Player of the Game honors for the season decreased slightly from last week. They’ve now won 356 in 847 games (42.0 percent) compared to 491 for pitchers (58.0 percent). Last week, batters’ share was 42.1 percent. Rules changes have seemed to help batters this season. Through the first nine weeks of the season, batters have won a larger share of Player of the Game honors in 2023 (42.0 percent) compared to this time in 2022 (37.7 percent). (Batters won 323 of the 856 Player of the Game honors through the first nine weeks of 2022.) Through the entire 2022 season, batters won a record-low 38 percent share of Player of the Game honors.
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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