| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Fried, Max 4011 | pi sp | nyy al | 5.7 | 1 | Pivetta, Nick 3825 | pi sp | sd nl | 6.0 | |
| 2 | Bubic, Kris 4413 | pi sp | kc al | 5.7 | 2 | Yamamoto, Yoshinobu 4964 | pi sp | lad nl | 6.0 | |
| 3 | Brown, Hunter 4729 | pi sp | hou al | 5.4 | 3 | Wheeler, Zack 3204 | pi sp | phi nl | 5.7 | |
| 4 | Crochet, Garrett 4434 | pi sp | bos al | 5.4 | 4 | Greene, Hunter 4651 | pi sp | cin nl | 5.7 | |
| 5 | Ragans, Cole 4889 | pi sp | kc al | 5.0 | 5 | Gallen, Zac 4171 | pi sp | ari nl | 5.0 | |
| 6 | Woo, Bryan 4842 | pi sp | sea al | 5.0 | 6 | Heaney, Andrew 3515 | pi sp | pit nl | 5.0 | |
| 7 | Mize, Casey 4377 | pi sp | det al | 5.0 | 7 | King, Michael 4549 | pi sp | sd nl | 4.4 | |
| 8 | Gilbert, Logan 4439 | pi sp | sea al | 4.7 | 8 | Gray, Sonny 3259 | pi sp | stl nl | 4.0 | |
| 9 | Rodon, Carlos 3494 | pi sp | nyy al | 4.7 | 9 | Meyer, Max 4965 | pi sp | fla nl | 4.0 | |
| 10 | Mahle, Tyler 3929 | pi sp | tex al | 4.7 | 10 | Skenes, Paul 5005 | pi sp | pit nl | 3.7 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Abreu, Wilyer 4911 | rf | bos al | 5.0 | 1 | Alonso, Pete 4118 | 1b | nym nl | 5.5 | |
| 2 | Bregman, Alex 3721 | 3b | bos al | 3.7 | 2 | Kelly, Carson 4098 | ca | chi nl | 4.5 | |
| 3 | Judge, Aaron 3767 | rf dh | nyy al | 3.5 | 3 | Yelich, Christian 3334 | dh | mil nl | 4.0 | |
| 4 | Ramirez, Jose 3436 | 3b | cle al | 3.0 | 4 | Crow-Armstrong, Pete 5073 | cf | chi nl | 4.0 | |
| 5 | Springer, George 3337 | rf dh | tor al | 3.0 | 5 | Suzuki, Seiya 4924 | dh rf | chi nl | 3.5 | |
| 6 | O’Neill, Tyler 4074 | rf lf | bal al | 3.0 | 6 | Nimmo, Brandon 3895 | lf | nym nl | 3.5 | |
| 7 | Arozarena, Randy 4331 | lf | sea al | 3.0 | 7 | Riley, Austin 4144 | 3b | atl nl | 3.5 | |
| 8 | Perez, Salvador 2972 | dh ca 1b | kc al | 2.5 | 8 | Stowers, Kyle 5019 | rf | fla nl | 3.5 | |
| 9 | Crawford, J.P. 3937 | ss | sea al | 2.5 | 9 | Betts, Mookie 3404 | ss rf | lad nl | 3.2 | |
| 10 | Robert, Luis 4296 | cf | chi al | 2.5 | 10 | Chourio, Jackson 4970 | lf | mil nl | 3.0 |
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Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta leads Box-Toppers weekly season player rankings report for the fourth straight week.
Meanwhile, Max Fried of the Yankees rises to lead American League pitchers, Wilyer Abreu of the Red Sox rises to lead AL batters and Pete Alonso of the Mets maintains his lead among National League batters.
Pivetta leads
Pivetta has 6.0 Box-Toppers points in 2025, picking up no points in the past week. He leads over Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers, who also has 6.0 points but ranks second because he has fewer 2024 points than Pivetta—6.4 vs. 9.7. Pivetta also leads NL pitchers ahead of Yamamoto.
American League pitchers
Max Fried of the Yankees rises to first with 5.7 Box-Toppers points, passing last week’s leader Hunter Brown of the Astros, who falls to third place with 5.4 points. Fried leads over Kris Bubic of the Royals, who also has 5.7 points, but ranks second among AL pitchers because he has fewer 2024 points than Fried—0.0 vs. 13.4.
Fried ranks fourth overall.
American League batters
Wilyer Abreu of the Red Sox rises to first with 5.0 Box-Toppers points, passing last week’s leader Alex Bregman of the Red Sox, who falls to second place with 3.7 points.
Abreu ranks 14th overall.
National League batters
Pete Alonso of the Mets leads for the fourth straight week with 5.5 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week, falling from second to seventh place overall. He leads ahead of second-place NL batter Carson Kelly of the Cubs (4.5 points).
Alonso is the only batter among the top 10 players in 2025 Box-Toppers points.
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Batters won Player of the Game honors in 35 of the 93 games played, while pitchers won in 58. Batters’ share of Player of the Game honors for the season decreased from 38.2 percent last week to 38.1 percent this week. Batters have won in 214 of the 562 total games played in 2025, with pitchers winning in 348.
Batters also had a decrease in their share of Box-Toppers points earned this season from 38.3 percent last week to 38.2 percent this week (256.9 points out of 672.1 total awarded). Pitchers have won 61.8 percent of all points.
Batters are just ahead of the pace of the all-time record low share of points earned in a season. Last year, batters had the lowest share of points compared to pitchers (37.2 percent) in any season since Box-Toppers tracking began in 1995.
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.
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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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