Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler has more Box-Toppers points over the past two seasons than any other player.
Box-Toppers points leaders for 2023-24
| OVERALL LEADERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |
| 1 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 36.1 |
| 2 | Skubal, Tarik 4414 | pi sp | det al | 31.8 |
| 3 | Cease, Dylan 4231 | pi sp | sd nl | 31.1 |
| 4 | Peralta, Freddy 3965 | pi sp | mil nl | 31.1 |
| 5 | Snell, Blake 3688 | pi sp | sf nl | 30.4 |
| 6 | Ohtani, Shohei 3933 | dh | lad nl | 30.4 |
| 7 | Kirby, George 4595 | pi sp | sea al | 29.1 |
| 8 | Gallen, Zac 4171 | pi sp | ari nl | 29.1 |
| 9 | Miller, Bryce 4797 | pi sp | sea al | 28.8 |
| 10 | Gausman, Kevin 3191 | pi sp | tor al | 28.7 |
| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |
| 1 | Skubal, Tarik 4414 | pi sp | det al | 31.8 |
| 2 | Kirby, George 4595 | pi sp | sea al | 29.1 |
| 3 | Miller, Bryce 4797 | pi sp | sea al | 28.8 |
| 4 | Gausman, Kevin 3191 | pi sp | tor al | 28.7 |
| 5 | Bassitt, Chris 3413 | pi sp | tor al | 27.8 |
| 6 | Castillo, Luis Miguel 3840 | pi sp | sea al | 26.8 |
| 7 | Cole, Gerrit 3232 | pi sp | nyy al | 26.7 |
| 8 | Gilbert, Logan 4439 | pi sp | sea al | 26.4 |
| 9 | Valdez, Framber 4048 | pi sp | hou al | 25.4 |
| 10 | Lopez, Pablo 4028 | pi sp | min al | 25.1 |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |
| 1 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | dh cf | nyy al | 25.0 |
| 2 | Soto, Juan 3994 | rf | nyy al | 20.0 |
| 3 | Tucker, Kyle 4277 | rf | hou al | 18.5 |
| 4 | Witt, Bobby Jr. 4592 | ss | kc al | 16.6 |
| 5 | Ramirez, Jose 3436 | 3b | cle al | 16.1 |
| 6 | Naylor, Josh 4154 | 1b | cle al | 16.0 |
| 7 | Alvarez, Yordan 4209 | dh | hou al | 14.0 |
| 8 | Henderson, Gunnar 4739 | ss | bal al | 13.5 |
| 9 | Lowe, Brandon 4108 | dh 2b | tb al | 12.5 |
| 10 | Devers, Rafael 4038 | 3b | bos al | 12.5 |
| NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |
| 1 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 36.1 |
| 2 | Cease, Dylan 4231 | pi sp | sd nl | 31.1 |
| 3 | Peralta, Freddy 3965 | pi sp | mil nl | 31.1 |
| 4 | Snell, Blake 3688 | pi sp | sf nl | 30.4 |
| 5 | Gallen, Zac 4171 | pi sp | ari nl | 29.1 |
| 6 | Sale, Chris 2806 | pi sp | atl nl | 27.8 |
| 7 | Nola, Aaron 3569 | pi sp | phi nl | 25.4 |
| 8 | Keller, Mitch 4230 | pi sp | pit nl | 24.7 |
| 9 | Glasnow, Tyler 3948 | pi sp | lad nl | 24.1 |
| 10 | Webb, Logan 4258 | pi sp | sf nl | 23.4 |
| NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |
| 1 | Ohtani, Shohei 3933 | dh | lad nl | 30.4 |
| 2 | Adames, Willy 4041 | ss | mil nl | 17.2 |
| 3 | Alonso, Pete 4118 | 1b | nym nl | 17.0 |
| 4 | Freeman, Freddie 2887 | 1b | lad nl | 15.5 |
| 5 | Ozuna, Marcell 3190 | dh | atl nl | 15.0 |
| 6 | Lindor, Francisco 3586 | ss | nym nl | 14.9 |
| 7 | Schwarber, Kyle 3536 | dh | phi nl | 14.0 |
| 8 | Chapman, Matt 3849 | 3b | sf nl | 13.7 |
| 9 | Doyle, Brenton 4803 | cf | col nl | 13.7 |
| 10 | Gorman, Nolan 4633 | 2b ph | stl nl | 13.5 |
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Wheeler earned 36.1 Box-Toppers points over 2023 and 2024. He ranked 11th among all players in 2023 with 14.7 Box-Toppers points and first among all players in 2024 with 21.4 points. Wheeler ranked fifth among National League pitchers in 2023 and led NL pitchers in 2024.
All Box-Toppers points leaders over 2023-24 are also leaders in points for the past season, 2024.
Skubal leads AL pitchers over past two seasons
Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal led American League pitchers over the past two seasons with 31.8 Box-Toppers points, second overall. Skubal had 10.7 points in 2023, 40th overall and 19th among American League pitchers. He had 21.1 Box-Toppers points in 2024, second overall and first among AL pitchers.
Blue Jays pitcher Chris Bassitt, who led AL pitchers in 2023 with 20.1 Box-Toppers points, ranks fifth among AL pitchers over 2023-24 with 27.8 points after earning 7.7 points in 2024, 38th among AL pitchers.
Judge leads AL batters
Aaron Judge of the Yankees leads AL batters over the past two seasons with 25.0 Box-Toppers points, 21st overall. Judge earned 12.0 Box-Toppers points in 2023, third among AL batters and earned 13.0 points in 2024, first among AL batters.
Ohtani leads NL batters
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers leads NL batters over the past two seasons with 30.4 Box-Toppers points, sixth overall. Ohtani earned 19.4 Box-Toppers points in 2023 with the Angels, which was third overall, second among AL pitchers and first among AL batters. He earned 11.0 points in 2024 with the Dodgers, first among NL batters.
While Ohtani has the most overwhelming lead among two-season category leaders with nearly double the points of second-place NL batter Willy Adames of the Brewers (17.2), his total is boosted from his pitching total in 2023. Ohtani earned 9.7 of his 19.4 points in 2023 with the Angels as a pitcher, qualifying to have his combined pitching and batting total rank among both pitchers and batters in Box-Toppers rankings. Still, without those 9.7 points earned as a pitcher in 2023, he would have 20.7 points as a batter over 2023-24, still first among NL batters over that span.
Ohtani did not qualify to rank among pitchers in 2024 because all of his Player of the Game honors during the season were earned as a batter. Ohtani underwent elbow surgery at the end of 2023 and was unable to pitch during 2024 while recovering, though he is expected to take the mound again with the Dodgers in 2025.
This is the third straight season Ohtani has led a two-year Box-Toppers point category. Ohtani led all players with 40.8 points over 2021-22, also leading AL pitchers that season. (He did not qualify to rank as a batter because he earned fewer than 25 percent of his Player of the Game honors as a batter in 2022.)
In 2023, Ohtani again led all players with 44.1 points over 2022-23 and also led AL pitchers and AL batters. He qualified to rank as a batter in 2023 because he earned more than 25 percent of his Player of the Game honors as a batter, in fact earning eight of 16 honors as a batter, 50 percent.
Ohtani signed a free agent deal to join the Dodgers in 2024, moving to the National League.
Pete Alonso of the Mets, who led NL batters in 2023 with 12.0 Box-Toppers points, ranks third among NL batters over 2023-24 with 17.0 points after earning 5.0 points in 2024, 25th among NL batters. Alonso led batters in two-year Box-Toppers point totals for the previous two seasons. In 2022, he had 17.9 points over 2021-22 and in 2023, he had 26.9 points over 2022-23.
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