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Padres’ Pivetta leads player rankings; Red Sox’ Crochet rises to lead AL pitchers

Shawn Plank April 25, 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 24:
  AL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP     NL PITCHERS POS TEAM BTP
1 Crochet, Garrett 4434 pi sp bos al 5.4   1 Pivetta, Nick 3825 pi sp sd nl 6.0
2 Gilbert, Logan 4439 pi sp sea al 4.7   2 Heaney, Andrew 3515 pi sp pit nl 5.0
3 Mahle, Tyler 3929 pi sp tex al 4.7   3 Yamamoto, Yoshinobu 4964 pi sp lad nl 5.0
4 Brown, Hunter 4729 pi sp hou al 4.4   4 Meyer, Max 4965 pi sp fla nl 4.0
5 Fried, Max 4011 pi sp nyy al 3.7   5 Wheeler, Zack 3204 pi sp phi nl 3.7
6 Rodon, Carlos 3494 pi sp nyy al 3.7   6 King, Michael 4549 pi sp sd nl 3.4
7 Bubic, Kris 4413 pi sp kc al 3.7   7 Imanaga, Shota 4960 pi sp chi nl 3.0
8 Ragans, Cole 4889 pi sp kc al 3.0   8 Sanchez, Cristopher 4850 pi sp phi nl 3.0
9 Woo, Bryan 4842 pi sp sea al 3.0   9 Singer, Brady 4337 pi sp cin nl 3.0
10 Miller, Mason 4975 pi cp oak al 3.0   10 Greene, Hunter 4651 pi sp cin nl 3.0
  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 Kelly, Carson 4098 ca chi nl 4.5
3 Ramirez, Jose 3436 3b cle al 3.0   3 Crow-Armstrong, Pete 5073 cf chi nl 4.0
4 O’Neill, Tyler 4074 rf lf bal al 3.0   4 Chourio, Jackson 4970 lf mil nl 3.0
5 Arozarena, Randy 4331 lf sea al 3.0   5 Carroll, Corbin 4818 rf ph ari nl 2.5
6 Abreu, Wilyer 4911 rf ph bos al 2.5   6 Riley, Austin 4144 3b atl nl 2.5
7 Perez, Salvador 2972 dh ca 1b kc al 2.5   7 Lowe, Nathaniel 4340 1b ph dc nl 2.5
8 Larnach, Trevor 4421 rf min al 2.0   8 Lee, Jung Hoo 5139 cf sf nl 2.5
9 Bader, Harrison 4071 lf min al 2.0   9 Suarez, Eugenio 3355 3b ari nl 2.0
10 Paris, Kyren 5130 cf dh pr ana al 2.0   10 Yelich, Christian 3334 dh lf mil nl 2.0
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Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta leads Box-Toppers weekly season player rankings report.

Pivetta also led player rankings last week but briefly lost that lead Saturday, when Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet took the top spot before Pivetta regained it Tuesday.

Pivetta also leads National League pitchers while Crochet rises to lead American League pitchers. Alex Bregman of the Red Sox continues to lead AL batters and Pete Alonso of the Mets continues to lead NL batters.

Pivetta leads

Pivetta has 6.0 Box-Toppers points in 2025, picking up 1.0 point in the past week. He leads over second-place player, Crochet (5.4 points) and leads NL pitchers ahead of second-place Andrew Heaney of the Pirates (5.0 points).

American League pitchers

Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet rises from third to first place among AL pitchers this week with 5.4 Box-Toppers points, passing last week’s leader, Logan Gilbert of the Mariners (4.7 points), who falls to second place. Crochet ranks second overall.

National League batters

Pete Alonso of the Mets continues to lead with 4.5 Box-Toppers points, seventh place overall, picking up no points in the past week. He leads ahead of second-place NL batter Carson Kelly of the Cubs, who rises from third to second place with 4.5 points. (Though Alonso and Kelly both have 4.5 points in 2025, Alonso ranks higher because he has more 2024 points—5.0 vs. 1.5.)

American League batters

Alex Bregman of the Red Sox continues to lead with 3.7 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week. He ranks ahead of second-place Aaron Judge of the Yankees (3.5 points). Bregman ranks 15th overall.

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Pitchers won Player of the Game honors in 57 of the 91 games played this week (62.6 percent) with batters winning in 34 (37.4 percent). That increased batters’ share of Player of the Game honors for the season from 36.6 percent last week to 36.8 percent this week (138 wins in 375 total games), with pitchers slipping to 63.2 percent (237 wins).

Pitchers have won 63.1 percent of all Box-Toppers points awarded in 2025 with batters earning 36.9 percent. Those numbers held steady from last week. 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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