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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: 10/1/2014
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	625.8
2	11	Felix Hernandez	581.0
3	2	Max Scherzer	571.6
4	15	Chris Sale	562.0
5	12	David Price	558.8
6	14	Madison Bumgarner	555.0
7	8	Jon Lester	554.6
8	7	Adam Wainwright	553.2
9	9	Cole Hamels	551.1
10	48	Johnny Cueto	549.4
11	6	Zack Greinke	537.9
12	108	Corey Kluber	535.4
13	31	Jordan Zimmermann	531.3
14	26	Stephen Strasburg	531.0
15	10	James Shields	529.3
16	5	Yu Darvish	524.7
17	19	R.A. Dickey	520.4
18	55	Jeff Samardzija	517.8
19	16	Jered Weaver	516.5
20	20	Hiroki Kuroda	509.8
21	3	Justin Verlander	508.4
22	18	Gio Gonzalez	507.9
23	24	Doug Fister	506.8
24	54	Lance Lynn	506.7
25	39	Chris Tillman	505.7
26	13	Anibal Sanchez	502.1
27	82	Phil Hughes	497.3
28	53	Jose Quintana	496.7
29	62	Alex Cobb	495.6
30	36	Francisco Liriano	494.7
31	23	Kyle Lohse	494.6
32	81	Julio Teheran	494.3
33	4	Cliff Lee	493.5
34	30	Hisashi Iwakuma	492.5
35	22	Homer Bailey	492.5
36	47	Jake Peavy	491.4
37	56	Ian Kennedy	481.0
38	27	Ervin Santana	480.7
39	25	Yovani Gallardo	479.4
40	69	Bud Norris	478.0
41	41	Mark Buehrle	477.3
42	67	Rick Porcello	477.2
43	58	John Lackey	475.3
44	118	Sonny Gray	475.1
45	93	Jorge de la Rosa	475.0
46	98	Chris Archer	473.1
47	63	Mike Leake	472.3
48	75	Miguel Gonzalez	471.6
49	121	Tyson Ross	471.6
50	49	Dan Haren	471.3

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