| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Skubal, Tarik 4414 | pi sp | det al | 16.1 | 1 | Cease, Dylan 4231 | pi sp | sd nl | 17.4 | |
| 2 | Gil, Luis 4498 | pi sp | nyy al | 15.4 | 2 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 15.7 | |
| 3 | Bibee, Tanner 4792 | pi sp | cle al | 12.0 | 3 | Imanaga, Shota 4960 | pi sp | chi nl | 15.7 | |
| 4 | Kirby, George 4595 | pi sp | sea al | 11.7 | 4 | Sale, Chris 2806 | pi sp | atl nl | 12.4 | |
| 5 | Houck, Tanner 4342 | pi sp | bos al | 11.4 | 5 | Glasnow, Tyler 3948 | pi sp | lad nl | 11.7 | |
| 6 | Lugo, Seth 3729 | pi sp | kc al | 11.1 | 6 | Flaherty, Jack 3971 | pi sp | lad nl | 10.0 | |
| 7 | Ober, Bailey 4441 | pi sp | min al | 10.4 | 7 | Peralta, Freddy 3965 | pi sp | mil nl | 9.7 | |
| 8 | Bradley, Taj 4780 | pi sp | tb al | 10.4 | 8 | Keller, Mitch 4230 | pi sp | pit nl | 9.7 | |
| 9 | Gilbert, Logan 4439 | pi sp | sea al | 10.0 | 9 | Nola, Aaron 3569 | pi sp | phi nl | 9.7 | |
| 10 | Eovaldi, Nathan 2928 | pi sp | tex al | 10.0 | 10 | Gray, Sonny 3259 | pi sp | stl nl | 9.4 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | cf dh | nyy al | 11.0 | 1 | Doyle, Brenton 4803 | cf | col nl | 8.7 | |
| 2 | Soto, Juan 3994 | rf | nyy al | 9.5 | 2 | Lindor, Francisco 3586 | ss | nym nl | 8.4 | |
| 3 | Witt, Bobby Jr. 4592 | ss | kc al | 8.9 | 3 | Harper, Bryce 3011 | 1b | phi nl | 7.7 | |
| 4 | Ramirez, Jose 3436 | 3b | cle al | 7.4 | 4 | Marte, Ketel 3630 | 2b | ari nl | 7.0 | |
| 5 | Mountcastle, Ryan 4325 | 1b | bal al | 7.0 | 5 | Happ, Ian 3798 | lf | chi nl | 6.5 | |
| 6 | Neto, Zach 4821 | ss | ana al | 7.0 | 6 | Chapman, Matt 3849 | 3b | sf nl | 6.5 | |
| 7 | Naylor, Josh 4154 | 1b | cle al | 6.5 | 7 | Pederson, Joc 3621 | dh | ari nl | 6.5 | |
| 8 | Rooker, Brent 4795 | dh | oak al | 6.5 | 8 | Burleson, Alec 4874 | dh | stl nl | 6.5 | |
| 9 | Alvarez, Yordan 4209 | dh | hou al | 6.0 | 9 | Garcia, Luis Jr. 4671 | 2b ph | dc nl | 6.2 | |
| 10 | Raleigh, Cal 4481 | ca | sea al | 5.2 | 10 | Adames, Willy 4041 | ss | mil nl | 5.5 |
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Padres pitcher Dylan Cease leads Box-Toppers season player rankings for the third straight week.
Meanwhile, all other category leaders remain the same as last week. Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal leads American League pitchers, Aaron Judge of the Yankees leads AL batters and Brenton Doyle of the Rockies leads National League batters.
Cease leads
Cease has 17.4 Box-Toppers points to lead all players, picking up no points in the past week. He leads ahead of second-place player, Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal (16.1). He leads NL pitchers for the fourth week ahead of second-place Zack Wheeler of the Phillies (15.7).
American League pitchers
Tarik Skubal of the Tigers leads AL pitchers for the second week with 16.1 Box-Toppers points, picking up 1.7 points in the past week. He leads over second-place AL pitcher Luis Gil of the Yankees (15.4 points).
Skubal ranks second overall.
American League batters
Aaron Judge of the Yankees leads AL batters for the eighth straight week with 11.0 Box-Toppers points, picking up 1.0 point in the past week. He is ahead of second-place Juan Soto of the Yankees (9.5 points).
Judge ranks 12th among all players.
National League batters
Brenton Doyle of the Rockies leads NL batters for the fifth week with 8.7 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week. He leads ahead of second-place Francisco Lindor of the Mets (8.4).
Doyle ranks 42nd among all players.
Box-Toppers almanac
Pitchers won 60.6 percent of all Player of the Game honors this week (57 times in 94 games) while batters won 39.4 percent (37 of 94).
While pitchers still won a large majority of this week’s Player of the Game honors, batters’ share of Player of the Game honors for the season increased slightly from 37.1 percent to 37.2 percent (644 times in 1,729 games). Pitchers have won 62.8 percent of 2024 Player of the Game honors (1,085 times in 1,729 games).
Batters’ overall share of Box-Toppers points won for the season also increased this week from 37.3 percent last week to 37.4 percent this week. Batters have now won 770.6 of the 2,057.8 points awarded this season, while pitchers have won 1,287.2 (62.6 percent).
The all-time low share of points for batters in a season is 38.1 percent in 2022 and batters are still behind that mark, but at 37.4 percent, they are at a high point for the season, are generally trending upward and are now within 1.0 percent of that all-time low with seven weeks left in the season. (Batters had 40.7 percent of all points 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.
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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