| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Gilbert, Logan 4439 | pi sp | sea al | 5.0 | 1 | Peralta, Freddy 3965 | pi sp | mil nl | 5.0 | |
| 2 | Houck, Tanner 4342 | pi sp | bos al | 4.0 | 2 | Suarez, Ranger 4228 | pi sp | phi nl | 5.0 | |
| 3 | Yates, Kirby 3628 | pi cp | tex al | 4.0 | 3 | Cease, Dylan 4231 | pi sp | sd nl | 4.7 | |
| 4 | Burnes, Corbin 4029 | pi sp | bal al | 3.7 | 4 | Glasnow, Tyler 3948 | pi sp | lad nl | 4.0 | |
| 5 | Skubal, Tarik 4414 | pi sp | det al | 3.7 | 5 | Nola, Aaron 3569 | pi sp | phi nl | 4.0 | |
| 6 | Berrios, Jose 3791 | pi sp | tor al | 3.7 | 6 | Helsley, Ryan 4589 | pi cp | stl nl | 4.0 | |
| 7 | Ryan, Joe 4539 | pi sp | min al | 3.7 | 7 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 3.7 | |
| 8 | Detmers, Reid 4513 | pi sp | ana al | 3.7 | 8 | Lopez, Reynaldo 3712 | pi sp | atl nl | 3.7 | |
| 9 | Pepiot, Ryan 4714 | pi sp mr | tb al | 3.7 | 9 | Turnbull, Spencer 4086 | pi sp | phi nl | 3.7 | |
| 10 | Castillo, Luis Miguel 3840 | pi sp | sea al | 3.0 | 10 | Garrett, Reed 4963 | pi cp mr | nym nl | 3.7 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Soto, Juan 3994 | rf | nyy al | 3.5 | 1 | Ozuna, Marcell 3190 | dh | atl nl | 3.0 | |
| 2 | Gimenez, Andres 4288 | 2b | cle al | 3.0 | 2 | Taylor, Tyrone 4393 | lf rf ph | nym nl | 3.0 | |
| 3 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | dh cf rf | nyy al | 2.5 | 3 | Gurriel, Lourdes Jr. 4148 | lf | ari nl | 2.7 | |
| 4 | Julien, Edouard 4822 | 2b | min al | 2.0 | 4 | Betts, Mookie 3404 | ss 2b rf | lad nl | 2.5 | |
| 5 | Cabrera, Oswaldo 4747 | 3b lf | nyy al | 2.0 | 5 | Doyle, Brenton 4803 | cf | col nl | 2.5 | |
| 6 | Westburg, Jordan 4969 | 3b | bal al | 2.0 | 6 | d’Arnaud, Travis 3384 | ca dh | atl nl | 2.5 | |
| 7 | Witt, Bobby Jr. 4592 | ss | kc al | 1.7 | 7 | Suzuki, Seiya 4924 | rf | chi nl | 2.5 | |
| 8 | Ramirez, Jose 3436 | dh 3b | cle al | 1.7 | 8 | Thomas, Lane 4623 | rf | dc nl | 2.0 | |
| 9 | Tucker, Kyle 4277 | rf | hou al | 1.5 | 9 | Cronenworth, Jake 4380 | 2b 1b | sd nl | 2.0 | |
| 10 | Henderson, Gunnar 4739 | ss 3b dh | bal al | 1.5 | 10 | Alexander, Blaze 4971 | ss dh | ari nl | 2.0 |
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Brewers pitcher Freddy Peralta remains atop Box-Toppers season player rankings for the second straight week.
Meanwhile, Juan Soto of the Yankees rises to lead American League batters in Box-Toppers rankings. Two other category leaders from last week still hold their lead: Logan Gilbert of the Mariners leads AL pitchers and Marcell Ozuna of the Braves leads National League batters.
Peralta leads
Peralta has 5.0 Box-Toppers points to lead all players, picking up 1.0 point in the past week. He leads all players ahead of Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert (5.0) and leads NL pitchers ahead of second-place Ranger Suarez of the Phillies (5.0). While Peralta, Gilbert and Suarez all have 5.0 points, Peralta ranks highest among the three because he has the most 2023 points (17.7), followed by Gilbert (13.4) and Suarez (3.7).
Peralta has earned Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors four times this season, earning 1.0 point on March 29, April 5 and April 19 and 2.0 points as overall Player of the Day on April 12.
American League batters
Juan Soto of the Yankees rises to lead the category with 3.5 Box-Toppers points, passing last week’s leader, Andres Gimenez of the Guardians, who falls to second with 3.0 points.
Soto ranks 21st among all players.
American League pitchers
Logan Gilbert of the Mariners maintains his lead among AL pitchers this week with 5.0 Box-Toppers points, picking up 1.0 point in the past week.
Gilbert leads ahead of second-place Tanner Houck of the Red Sox (4.0 points). Gilbert ranks second overall.
National League batters
Marcell Ozuna of the Braves maintains his lead with 3.0 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week.
Ozuna leads NL batters ahead of second-place Tyrone Taylor of the Mets (3.0 points). Though both Ozuna and Taylor have 3.0 points on the season, Ozuna ranks ahead because he has more 2023 points—7.5 vs. 5.0.
Ozuna ranks 26th overall.
Box-Toppers almanac
Players who have earned Box-Toppers points so far in 2024—280 (last week there were 226).
Players with more than 2.0 Box-Toppers points—46 (last week there were 31).
Players who’ve made their Box-Toppers debut so far in 2024 (earning their first career Player of the Game honor)—29 (last week there were 23).
Games completed so far in 2023—381, an average of 25.4 per team.
Percentage of scheduled season completed—15.7.
Pitchers earned Player of the Game honors in 61 of the 97 games this week (62.3 percent) while batters won in 36 games (37.1 percent). While pitchers still dominated, batters made slight gains on the season, increasing their share of Player of the Game honors won overall from 32.0 percent last week to 33.3 percent this week (127 times in 381 total games).
Batters have won 155.9 of the total 455.3 Box-Toppers points earned this season, increasing their point share from 33.2 percent last week to 34.2 percent this week. (Pitchers have 299.4 points or 65.8 percent.) The all-time low share for batters in a single season is 38.1 percent in 2022. (Batters had 40.7 percent in 2023.) While batters have struggled to reach parity with pitchers in recent seasons, it wasn’t always this way: From 1995 to 2009, batters generally won half or more of all Box-Toppers points each season. But their share of points dropped precipitously after 2009.
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