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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: 8/29/2015
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	626.1
2	10	Zack Greinke	583.2
3	5	David Price	570.3
4	2	Madison Bumgarner	568.4
5	6	Chris Sale	567.3
6	4	Max Scherzer	564.8
7	13	Corey Kluber	552.5
8	9	Johnny Cueto	542.3
9	42	Sonny Gray	528.8
10	55	Dallas Keuchel	527.7
11	8	Cole Hamels	527.3
12	63	Jake Arrieta	526.8
13	7	Jon Lester	526.0
14	3	Felix Hernandez	525.5
15	45	Chris Archer	515.2
16	12	Jordan Zimmermann	507.5
17	17	James Shields	499.6
18	94	Jacob Degrom	499.5
19	29	Francisco Liriano	499.0
20	34	John Lackey	495.9
21	20	Lance Lynn	493.2
22	82	Gerrit Cole	490.5
23	58	Shelby Miller	489.0
24	16	R.A. Dickey	488.7
25	14	Stephen Strasburg	488.3
26	27	Jose Quintana	488.1
27	88	Scott Kazmir	487.4
28	48	Tyson Ross	486.1
29	52	Wei-Yin Chen	480.0
30	46	Mike Leake	479.1
31	38	Yovani Gallardo	479.0
32	18	Jeff Samardzija	478.6
33	49	Edinson Volquez	478.2
34	11	Adam Wainwright	478.0
35	36	Ian Kennedy	477.5
36	31	Julio Teheran	476.2
37	120	Carlos Carrasco	475.8
38	40	Mark Buehrle	475.3
39	62	Jason Hammel	473.2
40	24	Chris Tillman	472.8
41	72	Collin McHugh	471.3
42	15	Jered Weaver	465.9
43	22	Gio Gonzalez	465.8
44	44	Jorge de la Rosa	465.1
45	26	Phil Hughes	462.7
46	23	Justin Verlander	461.5
47	115	Michael Wacha	461.4
48	47	Dan Haren	460.9
49	50	Wade Miley	459.9
50	71	Clay Buchholz	459.2

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