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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: 7/26/2015
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	610.9
2	4	Max Scherzer	578.4
3	10	Zack Greinke	573.6
4	6	Chris Sale	565.2
5	5	David Price	561.2
6	3	Felix Hernandez	552.1
7	9	Johnny Cueto	547.1
8	2	Madison Bumgarner	546.5
9	13	Corey Kluber	529.6
10	7	Jon Lester	525.3
11	8	Cole Hamels	524.2
12	55	Dallas Keuchel	516.0
13	29	Francisco Liriano	512.2
14	42	Sonny Gray	507.0
15	12	Jordan Zimmermann	506.4
16	18	Jeff Samardzija	503.5
17	45	Chris Archer	503.1
18	63	Jake Arrieta	502.5
19	17	James Shields	501.0
20	20	Lance Lynn	499.7
21	27	Jose Quintana	488.7
22	11	Adam Wainwright	486.5
23	58	Shelby Miller	486.2
24	16	R.A. Dickey	485.1
25	94	Jacob Degrom	484.3
26	34	John Lackey	482.4
27	26	Phil Hughes	481.2
28	62	Jason Hammel	481.1
29	52	Wei-Yin Chen	480.8
30	40	Mark Buehrle	479.6
31	88	Scott Kazmir	478.8
32	82	Gerrit Cole	477.0
33	48	Tyson Ross	475.6
34	22	Gio Gonzalez	474.7
35	38	Yovani Gallardo	471.7
36	53	A.J. Burnett	470.8
37	57	C.J. Wilson	470.1
38	24	Chris Tillman	469.4
39	49	Edinson Volquez	468.2
40	43	Anibal Sanchez	468.0
41	46	Mike Leake	467.9
42	71	Clay Buchholz	467.7
43	47	Dan Haren	467.7
44	14	Stephen Strasburg	466.1
45	44	Jorge de la Rosa	464.4
46	15	Jered Weaver	463.8
47	31	Julio Teheran	461.5
48	41	Miguel Gonzalez	457.5
49	50	Wade Miley	455.8
50	104	Hector Santiago	455.4

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