There has only been one batting Triple Crown in the past 55 years (Miguel Cabrera in 2012), but have you noticed there's still a chance we could see one in each league this season?

In the NL, Paul Goldschmidt is leading in batting average, tied with Pete Alonso for first in RBI and trails Kyle Schwarber by just two home runs. And in the AL, Aaron Judge has an insurmountable lead in home runs, a slimmer lead in RBI (109-106 over José Ramírez) and a faint pulse in the top 10 in batting average.

Needless to say, they are No. 1 and No. 2 in these updated hitter rankings.

But who else is thriving in the shadow of those titans?

Based on a combination of contact, power, plate discipline and what we're calling "pitch immunity," we've cobbled together a ranking of the current 10 best hitters in baseball. A report card grade has been assigned for each of the four categories, and rankings are loosely based on each player's average grade.

"Previous Rankings" are based on our last batch of hitter rankings from July 14. Unless otherwise noted, statistics current through the start of play on Sunday, August 28.

Honorable Mentions: José Abreu, Pete Alonso, José Altuve, Luis Arraez, Andrés Giménez, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Jeff McNeil, Kyle Schwarber, Mike Trout, Trea Turner.

10. Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves

Previous Rank: No. 9

Contact: A-

From June 30 through July 31, Austin Riley batted .423 and was rewarded with a 10-year, $212 million contract extension on Aug. 1. Thus far this month, though, he's batting .229 and has fallen well behind Paul Goldschmidt in the NL MVP race. But he's still sitting at .287 on the year and just had a three-hit gem against the Cardinals on Saturday.

Power: A

Though he only has two home runs in August, Riley's year-to-date numbers are still excellent. He has a .555 slugging percentage and a .911 OPS with 31 home runs and 35 doubles. And during that aforementioned hot streak, Riley slugged an absurd .885. He also had 33 home runs, 33 doubles and a .531 slugging percentage in 2021, so this is officially a trend for the 25-year-old third baseman.

Plate Discipline: B-

He's no Eugenio Suarez or Kyle Schwarber, but Riley does strike out an awful lot, averaging slightly more than one per game. He also averages slightly more than three whiffs per walk. Curiously, though, he has been better in this department in August (22 K, 11 BB in 25 G). He has just had some horrid BABIP luck lately.

Pitch Immunity: B+

Riley is the king of the curveball, leading the majors in runs above average against that pitch. He also fares quite well against sliders, cutters, changeups and splitters. But regular ol' fastballs have given him some trouble all season long. It's hard to get anything better than a B+ here when you're just OK against a pitch type you see nearly 50 percent of the time.

9. Juan Soto, San Diego Padres

Previous Rank: Honorable Mention

Contact: B

Juan Soto entered 2022 with a .301 career batting average, only to post an uncharacteristic .246 mark in his 101 games with the Nationals. In 19 games with the Padres, though, he's sitting at .299 and once again looks like one of the toughest outs in baseball.

Power: A-

Should we try to account for winning the Home Run Derby or nah? Even without factoring in that impressive exhibition performance, Soto has 23 home runs and a total of 45 extra-base hits. He had 29 and 51, respectively, while placing second in the NL MVP vote last year. And according to FanGraphs, he's seventh in the majors this season in wRC+.

Plate Discipline: A+

Soto is the patron saint of plate discipline. Some speculated that his walk rate would decrease once he got out of Washington and opponents actually had to pitch to him on occasion, but both his walk rate and his strikeout-to-walk ratio have gone virtually unchanged since the relocation to San Diego. For the year, he's at an MLB-best 108 walks (only four intentional) against just 73 strikeouts. And because of all those walks, Soto is breathing down Paul Goldschmidt's neck for the MLB lead in on-base percentage.

Pitch Immunity: B+

Throw Soto a slider and you're liable to get away with it. As has been the case throughout his young career, that's the one pitch against which he has been average at best. Throw him anything else, though, and you're playing with fire.

8. Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers

Previous Rank: No. 8

Contact: B+

Mookie Betts has gone through a couple of 20-game stretches this season when he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, but he also occasionally puts together a month when it feels like he cannot be retired. And it has been the latter since the All-Star break. Betts has recorded multiple hits in 12 of his last 34 games—including five games already in August with at least three hits—bringing his average up to .278.

Power: A-

Not only is he routinely getting multiple hits as of late, but a lot of them are going for multiple bases. Betts has 10 home runs, 10 doubles and a pair of triples since the All-Star break, racking up a .607 slugging percentage during that time. For the year, he's up to 30 home runs and has an OPS just a shade under .900.

Plate Discipline: B+

Betts' walk rate (8.7 percent) is his lowest since 2016, and his strikeout rate (16.4 percent) is the worst of his career. And though his contact rate on pitches in the strike zone ranks among the best in the majors, he is swinging at more pitches (and more bad pitches) than usual.

Pitch Immunity: A

Prior to Saturday, it sure looked like the slider was the best way to get Betts out. But then he went and mashed a slider for a 411-foot home run off the heavy favorite to win the NL Cy Young (Sandy Alcantara)—well, good luck, opposing pitchers. Betts was already significantly above-average against cutters, curveballs and changeups.

7. Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox

Previous Rank: No. 3

Contact: A-

August has not been kind to Rafael Devers. He was batting .324 in late July when he landed on the injured list for 10 days with a hamstring injury, but he has gone just 15-for-84 (.179) at the dish over his last 19 games. Everyone goes through occasional cold spells, but this one probably knocked Devers out of the running for the AL batting crown.

Power: A

Before this recent rough patch, Devers was slugging .612 and had an OPS of .992. Those are numbers that no one outside of Aaron Judge, Paul Goldschmidt or Yordan Alvarez can come close to boasting at the moment. He has since dipped to .549 and .903, respectively, which are still darn good numbers for anyone outside of that trio.

Plate Discipline: B-

Devers loves to hack, swinging at nearly 56 percent of pitches seen. And though his strikeout rate this season (17.8 percent) is better than both his career norm and the current league average, he still averages almost 2.7 strikeouts per walk, rarely taking a free pass.

Pitch Immunity: A+

Here's where Devers both makes up for and justifies the free-swinging mentality: It doesn't matter what you throw him. He has been worth at least 1.2 runs (per 100 pitches) above average against each of the five main pitch types. That hasn't always been the case. In fact, the slider is the only pitch that he wasn't below-average against at some point in the previous four seasons. But in 2022, he has been about as immune as it gets.

6. José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians

Previous Rank: No. 4

Contact: B+

José Ramírez has spent the entirety of August hovering in the .280-.285 range in batting average. We noted in the previous rankings that it's extremely rare for him to go hitless in consecutive games, and that is still true. It last happened 70 games ago during a doubleheader on June 7. And he now has more games with multiple hits (32) than games without one (31).

Power: A

Aaron Judge is understandably lapping the field in total bases with 302, but Ramírez ranks second in the AL at 256. He's tied for the league lead with 38 doubles and has 26 home runs. His isolated power (slugging minus batting average) of .268 ranks sixth in the majors.

Plate Discipline: A-

This used to be Ramírez's calling card. After 58 games, he had twice as many walks (34) as strikeouts (17). But he has gotten much more "whiffy" since mid-June with 37 strikeouts against 16 walks in his last 63 games. Granted, 37 strikeouts in 63 games is still pretty darn good compared to the league average. But that decrease in balls in play is a big reason why his batting average has fallen more than 20 points in that time.

Pitch Immunity: A-

Ramírez is something of a "jack of all trades, master of none" when it comes to pitch types. He has been most valuable against curveballs, but among qualified hitters, he barely ranks top 20 in the majors against that pitch. Then again, at the start of play on Sunday, he was one of just four players (along with Paul Goldschmidt, Rafael Devers and Mike Trout) with at least 200 plate appearances and at least 0.9 runs above average (per 100 pitches) against each of the five main pitch types. That's solid immunity.

5. Nolan Arenado, St. Louis Cardinals

Previous Rank: Honorable Mention

Contact: A

Through the first month of the regular season, Nolan Arenado batted .347 and was (along with Manny Machado) an early front-runner for NL MVP. He then cooled off considerably, batting .219 over his next 39 games. But since June 21, red-hot Arenado has been back, hitting .350 over his last 52 games. Overall, he has spent the past three weeks hovering within a few points of .300 and surged to .306 with a four-hit performance Saturday.

Power: A

While he isn't quite raking at the same level as he did with Colorado from 2015-19, Arenado is still having a remarkable year in St. Louis, slugging .570 with 27 home runs and a .941 OPS. As long as he hits at least three more home runs down the stretch, it's going to be his seventh consecutive season (excluding 2020) with at least 30 doubles and 30 home runs.

Plate Discipline: A-

Arenado draws walks at pretty much the league-average rate, but his strikeout rate (12.5 percent) ranks among the best in the bigs. He does chase his fair share of pitches outside the strike zone (hence the low walk rate), but at least he has a good contact rate on those pitches and a great contact rate on balls in the zone.

Pitch Immunity: B+

Arenado has struggled a bit with sliders this season, and he has been nowhere near as potent against changeups as he used to be, but he's a solid all-around hitter without any major weaknesses to exploit. He has been particularly good against cutters.

4. Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros

Previous Rank: No. 2

Contact: A-

Even with just a .266 batting average since the All-Star break, Yordan Alvarez is still sitting at a solid .294 for the year. That's not going to win him a batting title, but it's an impressive mark for a power hitter. His longest hitting streak of the season was merely seven games, but he has a multihit performance basically once every three games (32 of 109).

Power: A

Alvarez has homered just once in 102 plate appearances dating back to July 30, so we bumped him from an A+ down to just a regular A for failure to display power as of late. But he's still second in the American League in home runs thanks to 30 of them within his first 350 trips to the plate. At the All-Star break, Alvarez was at 26 home runs in 75 games compared to Aaron Judge's 33 in 89 games.

Plate Discipline: A

Alvarez draws walks at one of the best rates in the league, averaging one for every seven trips to the plate. As a result, he entered Sunday's play leading the AL in on-base percentage at a mark of .398. He does whiff in nearly 20 percent of plate appearances, but he has been much better this season about not swinging at pitches out of the strike zone.

Pitch Immunity: B

Against pitches with a fair amount of movement, Alvarez has been average at best this season. He has struggled with both cutters and curveballs, and he's not hitting sliders anywhere near as well as he did in 2019 or 2021. But throw this slugger a changeup at your own peril. He leads the majors in runs above average on changeups, and trails only Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt for damage done against fastballs.

3. Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers

Previous Rank: Honorable Mention

Contact: A+

In 40 games dating back to July 10, Freddie Freeman has batted .386. He isn't mashing homers, he isn't leading the league in batting average, and along with Trea Turner and Mookie Betts, he's merely one of three Dodgers who ranks top-10 in the majors in FanGraphs batting WAR. Thus, he hasn't gotten quite as much attention as he deserves. Still, Freeman is leading the majors in both hits (159) and doubles (42) and is the biggest threat to supplant Paul Goldschmidt atop the MLB's batting average leaderboard.

Power: A-

Freeman only has 16 home runs, which puts him in a tie for fifth-most among Dodgers. But he's slugging .517 and his .915 OPS is good for fifth-best in the majors among qualified hitters. He's much more of a contact hitter with pop than a slugger who can hit for average, but don't mistake his "always happy to go oppo for a double if that's what the pitcher gives him" approach for a lack of power.

Plate Discipline: A

Freeman is most of the way through an 11th consecutive season with a walk rate north of 10 percent, but he's also striking out less frequently than usual. Both on pitches in the strike zone and outside it, his contact percentage is higher than any other season in his career. Maybe the added lineup protection in Los Angeles means he's seeing better pitches to hit than he used to get in Atlanta, but it sure does seem like he's seeing the ball better than ever.

Pitch Immunity: A-

Uncle Charlie is the only pitch giving Freeman even a little bit of trouble this season, but even against curveballs, he's still marginally better than average. He has been especially good against cutters, which is bizarre since that was his worst pitch by a landslide over the previous eight years.

2. Aaron Judge, New York Yankees

Previous Rank: No. 5

Contact: A

From June 14 through July 15, Aaron Judge—who batted .318 through New York's first 60 games—hit .184 and appeared to be falling apart at the seams. In 35 games since that slump, however, Judge is batting .365 (with an absurd OBP of .497) and has gotten his YTD average back up to .295. If he keeps hitting like that for another month, there's still an outside shot he could win the AL Triple Crown.

Power: A+

At 49 home runs, Judge could probably go the rest of the season without a single round-tripper and still finish at No. 1 in the majors. His closest challenger is Kyle Schwarber at 35, or Yordan Alvarez at 31 if we're just talking about the AL. Of course, the intrigue here is whether Judge can get to 62 to set the AL record. And to that end, he's still on pace for 63.

Plate Discipline: A-

The biggest reason for Judge's turnaround in batting average over the past six weeks is perhaps his drastic improvement in plate discipline. Through July 14, he had more than twice as many strikeouts (98) as walks (43). Since then, he's been darn near even at 36 and 31, respectively. And while the K rate has decreased a little bit, it's the walk rate that has skyrocketed. Surely, there were a bunch of unintentional-but-kind-of-intentional walks as opponents have tried to pitch around him as of late, but only three of the 31 were officially intentional.

Pitch Immunity: A-

Earlier this season, Judge was struggling with both cutters and changeups, but he has improved considerably against both of those pitch types—while continuing to annihilate four-seamers and sliders. Per FanGraphs, Judge leads the majors in total runs above average against four-seam fastballs and trails only Austin Riley for the MLB lead against sliders. And now that there aren't any pitches that he actually struggles with, well, there's a reason he's averaging roughly nine plate appearances per home run since the All-Star break.

1. Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals

Previous Rank: No. 1

Contact: A+

With Luis Arraez fading over the past month, Paul Goldschmidt has surged into the MLB lead in batting average at .338. He's slightly behind both Freddie Freeman and Trea Turner in total hits, but at 153 with 35 games to go, there's a chance he'll get to 200. That would demolish his previous career high of 182, set in 2013 and matched in 2015.

Power: A+

Goldy is leading the NL with a .633 slugging percentage, boasting 33 home runs and 34 doubles. It's already his sixth season with at least 30 of each, and a 45/45 campaign is still on the table. It has happened just nine times in MLB history, most recently by Goldschmidt's teammate, Albert Pujols, in 2009. And if he does get to 45 home runs, a Triple Crown is a strong possibility. He already leads the NL in average and RBI and is just two homers behind Kyle Schwarber.

Plate Discipline: A-

Goldschmidt chases pitches outside the strike zone only about 25 percent of the time and makes contact on those pitches better than 60 percent of those swings. That combination is better than most, though not exactly top-notch, and he has about twice as many strikeouts (45) as walks (23) since the beginning of July. But whiffing once in every five-ish trips to the plate is just about the only complaint one could manufacture about Goldschmidt.

Pitch Immunity: A+

At the start of play on Saturday, Goldschmidt was worth at least 1.48 runs (per 100 pitches) above average against each of the five main pitch types for a combined value of 18.5 runs above average. The next-closest player was Austin Riley at 13.4.

Translation: As far as pitch immunity is concerned, Goldschmidt's lead over the rest of the league is on par with Aaron Judge's dominance in the home run department. In Thursday's game against the Cubs, Goldy singled on a sinker, homered on a cutter and homered on a four-seamer in what was just another day at the office.