| AL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL PITCHERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Dylan Cease | pi sp | Blue Jays | 17.4 | 1 | Jacob Misiorowski | pi sp | Brewers | 18.7 | |
| 2 | Cam Schlittler | pi sp | Yankees | 15.7 | 2 | Jesús Luzardo | pi sp | Phillies | 17.0 | |
| 3 | Logan Gilbert | pi sp | Mariners | 13.0 | 3 | Cristopher Sánchez | pi sp | Phillies | 15.7 | |
| 4 | Gavin Williams | pi sp | Guardians | 12.7 | 4 | Braxton Ashcraft | pi sp | Pirates | 15.4 | |
| 5 | Bryan Woo | pi sp | Mariners | 12.4 | 5 | Shohei Ohtani | pi sp dh | Dodgers | 13.7 | |
| 6 | Taj Bradley | pi sp | Twins | 12.4 | 6 | Zack Wheeler | pi sp | Phillies | 13.0 | |
| 7 | Drew Rasmussen | pi sp | Rays | 12.0 | 7 | Kyle Harrison | pi sp | Brewers | 12.0 | |
| 8 | José Soriano | pi sp | Blue Jays | 11.7 | 8 | Yoshinobu Yamamoto | pi sp | Dodgers | 11.4 | |
| 9 | Jacob deGrom | pi sp | Rangers | 11.4 | 9 | Chris Sale | pi sp | Braves | 11.4 | |
| 10 | Sean Burke | pi sp | White Sox | 11.1 | 10 | Paul Skenes | pi sp | Pirates | 11.0 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Yordan Álvarez | dh | Astros | 7.5 | 1 | Shohei Ohtani | pi sp dh | Dodgers | 13.7 | |
| 2 | Nick Kurtz | 1b | Athletics | 7.0 | 2 | Sal Stewart | 1b | Reds | 12.0 | |
| 3 | Kody Clemens | 1b rf | Twins | 7.0 | 3 | Dansby Swanson | ss | Cubs | 9.2 | |
| 4 | Munetaka Murakami | 1b | White Sox | 7.0 | 4 | Jake McCarthy | cf lf rf | Rockies | 8.7 | |
| 5 | Pete Alonso | 1b | Orioles | 6.7 | 5 | CJ Abrams | ss | Nationals | 8.0 | |
| 6 | Dillon Dingler | ca | Tigers | 6.5 | 6 | Michael Harris | cf ph | Braves | 7.5 | |
| 7 | Yandy Díaz | dh | Rays | 6.5 | 7 | Alec Burleson | 1b | Cardinals | 7.5 | |
| 8 | Willson Contreras | 1b | Red Sox | 6.0 | 8 | Griffin Conine | lf dh rf ph | Marlins | 7.5 | |
| 9 | Kazuma Okamoto | 3b | Blue Jays | 6.0 | 9 | Pete Crow‑Armstrong | cf | Cubs | 7.0 | |
| 10 | Jazz Chisholm Jr. | 2b | Yankees | 5.5 | 10 | Elly De La Cruz | ss | Reds | 7.0 |
Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski leads Box-Toppers overall player rankings for a fifth consecutive week with 18.7 Box-Toppers points.
Other Box-Toppers category leaders also remain unchanged since last week:
AL Pitchers: Dylan Cease, Blue Jays (17.4 points)
NL Batters: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers (13.7 points)
AL Batters: Yordan Alvarez, Astros (7.5 points)
Misiorowski has 18.7 Box-Toppers points (picking up 1.0 point in the past week) to lead all players and National League pitchers. In overall rankings, he sits ahead of second-place Dylan Cease of the Blue Jays (17.4 points) and in National League rankings, he is ahead of second-place Jesús Luzardo of the Phillies (17.0 points).
American League pitchers
Dylan Cease of the Blue Jays leads AL pitchers for the fifth consecutive report with 17.4 Box-Toppers points, gaining no points in the past week. He stays ahead of Cam Schlittler of the Yankees (15.7 points). Cease ranks second overall.
National League batters
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers leads for the 12th straight report with 13.7 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week. He leads second-place NL batter Sal Stewart of the Reds (12.0 points).
Ohtani ranks seventh overall.
Ohtani has earned Player of the Game honors 12 times this season—five as a batter (5.0 points) and seven as a starting pitcher (8.7 points). Because at least 25% of his honors came from each role (41.7% batting, 58.3% pitching), he qualifies to rank at both positions with his full 13.7-point total.
Looked at individually, his 8.7 points as a pitcher would rank 16th among NL pitchers and his 5.0 points as a designated hitter would rank 22nd among NL batters.
American League batters
Yordan Alvarez of the Astros leads for the third week with 7.5 Box-Toppers points, picking up no points in the past week. He is just ahead of second-place Nick Kurtz of the Athletics (7.0 points). Alvarez ranks 46th overall.
Box-Toppers almanac
Batters’ share of Box-Toppers points remains below 40 percent for the season. In the past week, batters won Player of the Game honors in 40 of the 94 games played (42.6%), while pitchers won 54 (57.4%).
Batters’ overall share of points this season increased from 39.5% last week to 39.7% this week.
Batters have won fewer than 40% of all Box-Toppers points awarded in four of the past five seasons (surpassing that mark only in 2023 at 40.7%) and set a record-low share of 37.2% 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.
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