| 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 | 17.7 | |
| 2 | Cam Schlittler | pi sp | Yankees | 15.7 | 2 | Jesus Luzardo | pi sp | Phillies | 16.0 | |
| 3 | Gavin Williams | pi sp | Guardians | 12.7 | 3 | Cristopher Sanchez | pi sp | Phillies | 15.7 | |
| 4 | Bryan Woo | pi sp | Mariners | 12.4 | 4 | Braxton Ashcraft | pi sp | Pirates | 14.4 | |
| 5 | Taj Bradley | pi sp | Twins | 12.4 | 5 | Shohei Ohtani | pi sp dh | Dodgers | 13.7 | |
| 6 | Logan Gilbert | pi sp | Mariners | 12.0 | 6 | Zack Wheeler | pi sp | Phillies | 13.0 | |
| 7 | Jose Soriano | pi sp | Blue Jays | 11.7 | 7 | Kyle Harrison | pi sp | Brewers | 12.0 | |
| 8 | Sean Burke | pi sp | White Sox | 11.1 | 8 | Chris Sale | pi sp | Braves | 11.4 | |
| 9 | Sonny Gray | pi sp | Red Sox | 11.0 | 9 | Paul Skenes | pi sp | Pirates | 11.0 | |
| 10 | Drew Rasmussen | pi sp | Rays | 11.0 | 10 | Mason Miller | pi cp | Padres | 11.0 | |
| AL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | NL BATTERS | POS | TEAM | BTP | |||
| 1 | Yordan Alvarez | 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 | 10.5 | |
| 3 | Kody Clemens | 1b rf | Twins | 7.0 | 3 | Dansby Swanson | ss | Cubs | 9.2 | |
| 4 | Munetaka Murakami | 1b | White Sox | 7.0 | 4 | CJ Abrams | ss | Nationals | 8.0 | |
| 5 | Dillon Dingler | ca | Tigers | 6.5 | 5 | Michael Harris | cf ph | Braves | 7.5 | |
| 6 | Willson Contreras | 1b | Red Sox | 6.0 | 6 | Jake McCarthy | cf rf lf | Rockies | 7.2 | |
| 7 | Jazz Chisholm Jr. | 2b | Yankees | 5.5 | 7 | Pete Crow‑Armstrong | cf | Cubs | 7.0 | |
| 8 | Jeremiah Jackson | 2b | Orioles | 5.2 | 8 | Elly De La Cruz | ss | Reds | 7.0 | |
| 9 | Riley Greene | lf | Tigers | 5.0 | 9 | Kyle Schwarber | dh | Phillies | 6.7 | |
| 10 | Pete Alonso | 1b | Orioles | 5.0 | 10 | James Wood | rf | Nationals | 6.5 |
Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski leads Box-Toppers overall player rankings for a fourth consecutive week with 17.7 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 leads
Misiorowski has 17.7 Box-Toppers points (picking up no points 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 (16.0 points).
American League pitchers
Dylan Cease of the Blue Jays leads AL pitchers for the fourth consecutive report with 17.4 Box-Toppers points, gaining 1.0 point 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 11th 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 (10.5 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 21st 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 41st overall.
Notable
Only one player on Box-Toppers’ top 10 player rankings leaderboards was moved at the trade deadline: José Soriano, whose 11.7 Box-Toppers points is seventh among AL pitchers, was traded from the Angels to the Blue Jays.
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 33 of the 94 games played (35.1%), while pitchers won 61 (64.9%).
Batters’ overall share of points this season decreased from 39.7% last week to 39.5% 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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