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Padres’ Pivetta rises to lead season player rankings, Mariners’ Gilbert leads AL players

Shawn Plank April 18, 2025
Here are standings of the top 10 players by category (AL & NL pitching & batting) in Box-Toppers points (BTP) for the 2025 season through games of Thursday, April 17:
  AL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP     NL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP
1 Gilbert, Logan 4439 pi sp sea al 4.7   1 Pivetta, Nick 3825 pi sp sd nl 5.0
2 Mahle, Tyler 3929 pi sp tex al 4.7   2 King, Michael 4549 pi sp sd nl 3.4
3 Crochet, Garrett 4434 pi sp bos al 3.7   3 Imanaga, Shota 4960 pi sp chi nl 3.0
4 Ragans, Cole 4889 pi sp kc al 3.0   4 Sanchez, Cristopher 4850 pi sp phi nl 3.0
5 Baz, Shane 4560 pi sp tb al 3.0   5 Greene, Hunter 4651 pi sp cin nl 3.0
6 Brown, Hunter 4729 pi sp hou al 2.7   6 Heaney, Andrew 3515 pi sp pit nl 3.0
7 Skubal, Tarik 4414 pi sp det al 2.0   7 Yamamoto, Yoshinobu 4964 pi sp lad nl 3.0
8 Miller, Bryce 4797 pi sp sea al 2.0   8 Wheeler, Zack 3204 pi sp phi nl 2.7
9 Valdez, Framber 4048 pi sp hou al 2.0   9 Luzardo, Jesus 4282 pi sp phi nl 2.7
10 Fried, Max 4011 pi sp nyy al 2.0   10 May, Dustin 4214 pi sp lad nl 2.7
  AL BATTERS POS TEAM BTP     NL BATTERS POS TEAM BTP
1 Bregman, Alex 3721 3b bos al 3.7   1 Alonso, Pete 4118 1b nym nl 4.5
2 Judge, Aaron 3767 rf dh nyy al 3.5   2 Chourio, Jackson 4970 lf mil nl 3.0
3 O’Neill, Tyler 4074 rf lf bal al 3.0   3 Kelly, Carson 4098 ca chi nl 3.0
4 Arozarena, Randy 4331 lf sea al 3.0   4 Carroll, Corbin 4818 rf ph ari nl 2.5
5 Abreu, Wilyer 4911 rf ph bos al 2.5   5 Lowe, Nathaniel 4340 1b ph dc nl 2.5
6 Bader, Harrison 4071 lf min al 2.0   6 Lee, Jung Hoo 5139 cf sf nl 2.5
7 Paris, Kyren 5130 cf dh pr ana al 2.0   7 Suarez, Eugenio 3355 3b ari nl 2.0
8 Chisholm, Jazz Jr. 4364 cf nyy al 1.7   8 Wade, LaMonte Jr. 4523 1b rf ph sf nl 2.0
9 Grisham, Trent 4246 cf nyy al 1.7   9 Stowers, Kyle 5019 rf fla nl 2.0
10 Diaz, Yainer 4871 ca dh hou al 1.7   10 Flores, Wilmer 3345 dh 1b sf nl 2.0
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Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta rises to lead Box-Toppers weekly season player rankings report.

Pivetta also rises to lead National League pitchers. Meanwhile, Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert continues to lead American League pitchers, Alex Bregman of the Red Sox rises to lead AL batters and Pete Alonso of the Mets rises to lead NL batters.

Pivetta leads

Pivetta has 5.0 Box-Toppers points in 2025, rising to first overall, passing last week’s leader, Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert, who falls to second place with 4.7 points. Pivetta also leads NL pitchers, passing last week’s leader, Zack Wheeler of the Phillies, who falls to eighth with 2.7 points. Pivetta leads NL pitchers ahead of second-place Michael King of the Padres (3.4 points).

American League pitchers

Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert leads AL pitchers for the third straight week with 4.7 points, falling from first to second place overall.

He picks up 1.0 point since last week and leads over second-place AL pitcher Tyler Mahle of the Rangers (4.7 points). Though Gilbert and Mahle both have 4.7 Box-Toppers points in 2025, Gilbert ranks ahead because he has more 2024 points—13.0 vs. 0.0.

National League batters

Pete Alonso of the Mets leads with 4.5 Box-Toppers points, fourth place overall, passing last week’s leader Jackson Chourio of the Brewers, who falls to second place with 3.0 points.

American League batters

Alex Bregman of the Red Sox leads with 3.7 Box-Toppers points, sixth overall, passing last week’s leader Aaron Judge of the Yankees, who falls to second place with 3.5 points.

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Pitchers won Player of the Game honors in 66 of the 94 games played this week (70.2 percent) with batters winning in 28 (29.8 percent). That increased pitchers’ share of Player of the Game honors for the season from 60 percent last week to 63.4 percent this week (180 wins in 284 total games), with batters slipping to 36.6 percent (104 wins).

Pitchers have won 63.1 percent of all Box-Toppers points awarded in 2025 with batters earning 36.9 percent. Though it’s early in the season, that’s already behind the record-low share of points earned by batters in a single season—37.2 percent in 2024.

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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Tracking who most helps their teams win the most games, based on box score stats. A method to measure & compare baseball's top players.

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. Players earn Box-Toppers points 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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