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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: 9/30/2015
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	636.9
2	10	Zack Greinke	589.9
3	5	David Price	577.6
4	2	Madison Bumgarner	577.2
5	63	Jake Arrieta	572.4
6	4	Max Scherzer	570.6
7	6	Chris Sale	552.4
8	13	Corey Kluber	538.7
9	7	Jon Lester	535.1
10	55	Dallas Keuchel	535.1
11	3	Felix Hernandez	533.6
12	8	Cole Hamels	529.3
13	9	Johnny Cueto	518.5
14	14	Stephen Strasburg	515.5
15	34	John Lackey	512.9
16	12	Jordan Zimmermann	509.5
17	42	Sonny Gray	508.3
18	48	Tyson Ross	507.6
19	17	James Shields	507.3
20	29	Francisco Liriano	506.0
21	16	R.A. Dickey	506.0
22	45	Chris Archer	504.5
23	94	Jacob Degrom	501.1
24	82	Gerrit Cole	500.5
25	27	Jose Quintana	499.7
26	120	Carlos Carrasco	491.5
27	20	Lance Lynn	490.5
28	31	Julio Teheran	483.2
29	52	Wei-Yin Chen	482.7
30	44	Jorge de la Rosa	480.9
31	22	Gio Gonzalez	478.7
32	23	Justin Verlander	478.7
33	32	Hisashi Iwakuma	477.9
34	72	Collin McHugh	474.8
35	50	Wade Miley	473.3
36	18	Jeff Samardzija	473.3
37	49	Edinson Volquez	472.8
38	88	Scott Kazmir	472.2
39	58	Shelby Miller	472.0
40	47	Dan Haren	471.2
41	40	Mark Buehrle	470.2
42	11	Adam Wainwright	470.0
43	38	Yovani Gallardo	469.6
44	36	Ian Kennedy	469.4
45	46	Mike Leake	469.1
46	74	Garrett Richards	468.7
47	108	Masahiro Tanaka	465.9
48	69	Yordano Ventura	465.5
49	70	Ubaldo Jimenez	464.6
50	33	Jake Peavy	464.3

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