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Here's something to jazz up your baseball debates: a ranking of the top starting pitchers in the major leagues. These rankings (which include postseason performances) will be updated every morning, though we'll show each pitcher's rank as of April 1st of each year (that's the "Started Season" column). If you're interested in how we put this together, read about Bill's concept in this article.

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Starting Pitcher Rankings

Rank	Started Season	Name	Current Score
World's #1 Starting Pitcher Rankings: 6/30/2014
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	584.4
2	11	Felix Hernandez	557.7
3	7	Adam Wainwright	549.9
4	2	Max Scherzer	548.4
5	5	Yu Darvish	546.3
6	12	David Price	528.2
7	8	Jon Lester	526.4
8	4	Cliff Lee	523.3
9	15	Chris Sale	522.1
10	6	Zack Greinke	521.5
11	13	Anibal Sanchez	521.3
12	14	Madison Bumgarner	521.1
13	9	Cole Hamels	520.8
14	16	Jered Weaver	513.6
15	48	Johnny Cueto	513.1
16	3	Justin Verlander	507.8
17	23	Kyle Lohse	497.3
18	10	James Shields	497.0
19	31	Jordan Zimmermann	492.1
20	29	C.J. Wilson	491.1
21	19	R.A. Dickey	490.3
22	41	Mark Buehrle	490.0
23	18	Gio Gonzalez	484.1
24	22	Homer Bailey	482.4
25	81	Julio Teheran	482.3
26	26	Stephen Strasburg	480.6
27	20	Hiroki Kuroda	478.7
28	25	Yovani Gallardo	478.2
29	21	Matt Cain	476.8
30	28	Ubaldo Jimenez	476.0
31	33	A.J. Burnett	474.9
32	24	Doug Fister	472.7
33	27	Ervin Santana	472.5
34	58	John Lackey	471.2
35	53	Jose Quintana	470.6
36	55	Jeff Samardzija	470.4
37	54	Lance Lynn	466.9
38	63	Mike Leake	463.8
39	30	Hisashi Iwakuma	463.7
40	38	Jose Fernandez	463.2
41	51	Bartolo Colon	462.9
42	39	Chris Tillman	460.3
43	56	Ian Kennedy	459.2
44	67	Rick Porcello	458.0
45	65	Jeremy Guthrie	457.1
46	40	Bronson Arroyo	456.3
47	46	Tim Lincecum	455.1
48	44	Wade Miley	454.5
49	69	Bud Norris	453.7
50	49	Dan Haren	453.4

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