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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: 7/15/2015
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	594.6
2	4	Max Scherzer	585.0
3	6	Chris Sale	570.2
4	10	Zack Greinke	566.6
5	5	David Price	552.3
6	3	Felix Hernandez	550.0
7	2	Madison Bumgarner	543.1
8	9	Johnny Cueto	542.6
9	13	Corey Kluber	533.0
10	8	Cole Hamels	520.6
11	7	Jon Lester	516.1
12	42	Sonny Gray	510.1
13	29	Francisco Liriano	508.4
14	55	Dallas Keuchel	506.5
15	12	Jordan Zimmermann	506.4
16	18	Jeff Samardzija	498.9
17	17	James Shields	496.6
18	45	Chris Archer	496.3
19	63	Jake Arrieta	495.0
20	20	Lance Lynn	490.5
21	11	Adam Wainwright	489.3
22	38	Yovani Gallardo	486.6
23	27	Jose Quintana	484.1
24	53	A.J. Burnett	483.0
25	52	Wei-Yin Chen	482.9
26	62	Jason Hammel	481.7
27	94	Jacob Degrom	481.0
28	34	John Lackey	479.0
29	58	Shelby Miller	477.8
30	40	Mark Buehrle	477.2
31	16	R.A. Dickey	475.0
32	48	Tyson Ross	474.5
33	22	Gio Gonzalez	473.6
34	82	Gerrit Cole	473.5
35	26	Phil Hughes	471.6
36	47	Dan Haren	471.0
37	71	Clay Buchholz	470.2
38	14	Stephen Strasburg	468.9
39	43	Anibal Sanchez	468.4
40	15	Jered Weaver	466.6
41	70	Ubaldo Jimenez	466.3
42	88	Scott Kazmir	464.6
43	57	C.J. Wilson	463.2
44	44	Jorge de la Rosa	463.2
45	49	Edinson Volquez	462.5
46	31	Julio Teheran	458.1
47	46	Mike Leake	455.6
48	104	Hector Santiago	455.5
49	19	Doug Fister	454.7
50	24	Chris Tillman	451.1
51	111	Kyle Gibson	450.2
52	41	Miguel Gonzalez	450.1
53	72	Collin McHugh	447.5
54	36	Ian Kennedy	443.7
55	50	Wade Miley	442.9
56	67	Jonathon Niese	442.7
57	30	Kyle Lohse	442.5
58	61	Bartolo Colon	439.5
59	84	Tom Koehler	439.2
60	74	Garrett Richards	437.2
61	100	Jake Odorizzi	436.2
62	115	Michael Wacha	434.0
63	83	Ryan Vogelsong	433.5
64	79	Andrew Cashner	432.4
65	120	Carlos Carrasco	432.0
66	39	Rick Porcello	431.5
67	117	Trevor Bauer	430.9
68	69	Yordano Ventura	430.5
69	76	Aaron Harang	430.4
70	87	Alex Wood	430.1
71	32	Hisashi Iwakuma	429.0
72	33	Jake Peavy	424.1
73	51	Jeremy Guthrie	423.2
74	54	Jason Vargas	421.6
75	80	Mat Latos	420.3
76	90	J.A. Happ	418.1
77	60	Scott Feldman	417.1
78	35	Bud Norris	416.6
79	131	Danny Salazar	416.6
80	64	Wily Peralta	416.4
81	89	Drew Hutchison	415.4
82	77	Tim Hudson	414.2
83	98	Matthew Shoemaker	413.9
84	159	Carlos Martinez	413.5
85	23	Justin Verlander	412.5
86	139	Kyle Hendricks	411.3
87	108	Masahiro Tanaka	411.1
88	99	Kyle Kendrick	410.0
89	134	Michael Fiers	409.7
90	66	Matt Garza	409.3
91	140	Michael Pineda	408.7
92	127	Chase Anderson	408.0
93	118	Jeff Locke	406.8
94	159	Matt Harvey	406.7
95	107	Nathan Eovaldi	405.0
96	106	Chris Young	404.6
97	130	Colby Lewis	401.1
98	68	Brandon McCarthy	400.3
99	86	Josh Collmenter	399.1
100	122	Tom Milone	398.4

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