| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Lugo, Seth 3729 | pi sp | kc al | 6.4 | 1 | Cease, Dylan 4231 | pi sp | sd nl | 7.7 | |
| 2 | Gilbert, Logan 4439 | pi sp | sea al | 6.0 | 2 | Suarez, Ranger 4228 | pi sp | phi nl | 7.7 | |
| 3 | Houck, Tanner 4342 | pi sp | bos al | 6.0 | 3 | Imanaga, Shota 4960 | pi sp | chi nl | 7.7 | |
| 4 | Kirby, George 4595 | pi sp | sea al | 5.7 | 4 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 6.7 | |
| 5 | Crochet, Garrett 4434 | pi sp | chi al | 5.7 | 5 | Sale, Chris 2806 | pi sp | atl nl | 6.7 | |
| 6 | Gil, Luis 4498 | pi sp | nyy al | 5.7 | 6 | Peralta, Freddy 3965 | pi sp | mil nl | 6.0 | |
| 7 | Castillo, Luis Miguel 3840 | pi sp | sea al | 5.0 | 7 | Glasnow, Tyler 3948 | pi sp | lad nl | 6.0 | |
| 8 | Eovaldi, Nathan 2928 | pi sp | tex al | 5.0 | 8 | Nola, Aaron 3569 | pi sp | phi nl | 6.0 | |
| 9 | Bibee, Tanner 4792 | pi sp | cle al | 5.0 | 9 | Helsley, Ryan 4589 | pi cp | stl nl | 6.0 | |
| 10 | Miller, Bryce 4797 | pi sp | sea al | 4.7 | 10 | Assad, Javier 4899 | pi sp | chi nl | 5.0 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Soto, Juan 3994 | rf | nyy al | 4.5 | 1 | Stott, Bryson 4607 | 2b | phi nl | 4.5 | |
| 2 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | cf dh | nyy al | 4.0 | 2 | Doyle, Brenton 4803 | cf | col nl | 4.2 | |
| 3 | Naylor, Josh 4154 | dh 1b | cle al | 3.0 | 3 | Harper, Bryce 3011 | 1b | phi nl | 4.2 | |
| 4 | Gimenez, Andres 4288 | 2b | cle al | 3.0 | 4 | Lindor, Francisco 3586 | ss ph | nym nl | 3.2 | |
| 5 | Langeliers, Shea 4715 | ca | oak al | 3.0 | 5 | Garcia, Luis 4671 | 2b ss ph | dc nl | 3.2 | |
| 6 | Witt, Bobby Jr. 4592 | ss | kc al | 2.7 | 6 | Contreras, William 4717 | ca dh | mil nl | 3.2 | |
| 7 | Henderson, Gunnar 4739 | ss 3b dh | bal al | 2.5 | 7 | Ozuna, Marcell 3190 | dh | atl nl | 3.0 | |
| 8 | Alvarez, Yordan 4209 | dh lf | hou al | 2.5 | 8 | Taylor, Tyrone 4393 | lf rf ph | nym nl | 3.0 | |
| 9 | Ramirez, Harold 4164 | dh | tb al | 2.5 | 9 | Chapman, Matt 3849 | 3b | sf nl | 3.0 | |
| 10 | Canha, Mark 3454 | lf rf | det al | 2.5 | 10 | McMahon, Ryan 4004 | 3b | col nl | 2.7 |
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Padres pitcher Dylan Cease leads Box-Toppers player rankings for the second straight week.
Also this week in Box-Toppers player rankings, Royals pitcher Seth Lugo rises to lead American League pitchers and Bryson Stott of the Phillies rises to lead National League batters. Meanwhile, Juan Soto of the Yankees maintains his lead among AL batters.
Cease leads
Cease has 7.7 Box-Toppers points to lead all players, picking up no points in the past week. He leads over two other players with 7.7 points—Phillies pitcher Ranger Suarez and Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga. Cease ranks ahead of both based on 2023 Box-Toppers point totals. Cease ranks first with 10.0 points in 2023, Suarez is second with 3.7 and Imanaga is third with 0.0.
Cease also leads NL pitchers for the second week, ahead of Suarez and Imanaga.
American League pitchers
Seth Lugo of the Royals rises to lead AL pitchers this week with 6.4 points, passing last week’s leader, Logan Gilbert of the Mariners, who falls to second with 6.0 points.
Lugo ranks sixth overall.
National League batters
Bryson Stott of the Phillies rises to lead NL batters this week with 4.5 points, passing last week’s leader Brenton Doyle of the Rockies, who falls to second place with 4.2 points.
Stott ranks 30th overall.
American League batters
Juan Soto of the Yankees maintains his lead in the category with 4.5 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week. He leads over second-place Aaron Judge of the Yankees, with 4.0 points.
Soto ranks 29th among all players.
Box-Toppers almanac
Players who have earned Box-Toppers points so far in 2024—406 (last week there were 364).
Players with more than 2.0 Box-Toppers points—104 (last week there were 84).
Players who’ve made their Box-Toppers debut so far in 2024 (earning their first career Player of the Game honor)—49 (last week there were 42).
Games completed so far in 2024—659, an average of 43.9 per team.
Percentage of scheduled season completed—27.1.
Pitchers earned Player of the Game honors in 61 of the 94 games this week (64.9 percent) while batters won in 31 games (35.1 percent). Batters increased their share of Player of the Game honors won overall from 32.4 percent last week to 32.8 percent this week (216 times in 659 total games). Pitchers have won 443 times in 659 games (67.2 percent).
Batters have won 264.5 of the total 787.5 Box-Toppers points awarded this season. Their share of points increased from last week (33.4 percent) to this week (33.6 percent). (Pitchers have 523.0 points or 66.4 percent.) The all-time low share of points 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 and is on track to plummet to a record-shattering low in 2024.
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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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