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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: 2/5/2016
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	609.9
2	2	Zack Greinke	568.1
3	3	Max Scherzer	554.0
4	4	Jake Arrieta	552.9
5	5	David Price	546.5
6	6	Madison Bumgarner	546.5
7	7	Chris Sale	525.6
8	8	Corey Kluber	517.5
9	9	Dallas Keuchel	516.0
10	10	Jon Lester	514.4
11	11	Cole Hamels	512.7
12	12	Felix Hernandez	502.1
13	13	Johnny Cueto	495.1
14	14	Jacob Degrom	489.5
15	15	Stephen Strasburg	488.8
16	16	John Lackey	485.1
17	17	Jordan Zimmermann	478.6
18	18	R.A. Dickey	477.8
19	19	Tyson Ross	476.9
20	20	Sonny Gray	476.5
21	21	James Shields	476.0
22	22	Chris Archer	475.2
23	23	Jose Quintana	475.1
24	24	Francisco Liriano	472.6
25	25	Gerrit Cole	469.6
26	26	Lance Lynn	460.8
27	27	Edinson Volquez	458.5
28	28	Julio Teheran	458.0
29	29	Carlos Carrasco	455.6
30	30	Wei-Yin Chen	455.5
31	31	Gio Gonzalez	454.7
32	32	Collin McHugh	452.7
33	33	Justin Verlander	452.5
34	34	Shelby Miller	451.5
35	35	Hisashi Iwakuma	451.0
36	36	Matt Harvey	450.7
37	37	Jorge de la Rosa	448.9
38	38	Mike Leake	448.1
39	NR	Dan Haren	446.6
40	40	Garrett Richards	445.4
41	41	Ian Kennedy	445.3
42	42	Yordano Ventura	443.1
43	43	Jeff Samardzija	442.5
44	44	Yovani Gallardo	441.9
45	45	Marco Estrada	438.7
46	46	Wade Miley	438.2
47	47	Scott Kazmir	437.9
48	48	Masahiro Tanaka	437.3
49	49	Ubaldo Jimenez	436.8
50	50	Jake Peavy	436.7
51	51	Danny Salazar	435.8
52	52	Jered Weaver	435.3
53	53	J.A. Happ	434.6
54	54	Chris Tillman	434.3
55	55	Jason Hammel	433.4
56	NR	Mark Buehrle	432.6
57	57	Kyle Gibson	430.8
58	NR	A.J. Burnett	429.8
59	59	Phil Hughes	429.4
60	60	Jake Odorizzi	428.9
61	61	Michael Fiers	428.8
62	62	Rick Porcello	427.7
63	63	Alex Wood	427.3
64	64	Bartolo Colon	427.0
65	65	Kyle Hendricks	423.5
66	66	Noah Syndergaard	421.6
67	67	Hector Santiago	420.1
68	77	Anibal Sanchez	417.3
69	100	C.J. Wilson	416.7
70	68	Michael Wacha	415.4
71	69	Tom Koehler	413.1
72	111	Clay Buchholz	411.7
73	70	Jonathon Niese	410.4
74	71	Andrew Cashner	410.3
75	72	Trevor Bauer	409.7
76	73	Carlos Martinez	406.5
77	110	Doug Fister	402.9
78	NR	Miguel Gonzalez	401.9
79	75	Colby Lewis	401.7
80	83	Scott Feldman	401.5
81	76	Matthew Shoemaker	400.1
82	84	Nathan Eovaldi	397.1
83	78	Lance McCullers	394.9
84	79	John Danks	394.0
85	80	Danny Duffy	393.4
86	81	Ervin Santana	393.3
87	82	Erasmo Ramirez	392.1
88	85	Chase Anderson	390.1
89	86	Chris Young	388.5
90	NR	Aaron Harang	388.2
91	88	Michael Pineda	387.8
92	89	Jeff Locke	387.7
93	NR	Kyle Lohse	386.7
94	90	Jimmy Nelson	386.3
95	91	Jaime Garcia	386.2
96	92	Drew Hutchison	385.8
97	93	Tom Milone	385.6
98	103	Mat Latos	385.6
99	94	Taijuan Walker	385.3
100	104	Ryan Vogelsong	385.1
101	NR	Tim Hudson	384.4
102	96	Rubby De La Rosa	383.2
103	97	Chris Heston	382.8
104	98	Wily Peralta	380.8
105	99	Anthony DeSclafani	380.7
106	101	Carlos Rodon	377.9
107	102	Joseph Kelly	377.7
108	105	Brett Anderson	376.3
109	106	Jeremy Hellickson	375.8
110	107	Robbie Ray	375.7
111	NR	Kyle Kendrick	375.4
112	143	Jason Vargas	374.8
113	118	Nate Karns	374.5
114	147	Adam Wainwright	373.5
115	109	Eduardo Rodriguez	372.8
116	116	Matt Garza	372.7
117	112	CC Sabathia	369.7
118	113	Drew Smyly	367.9
119	114	Roenis Elias	367.2
120	115	Taylor Jungmann	366.5
121	117	Chad Bettis	365.1
122	119	Charlie Morton	361.2
123	120	Jeremy Guthrie	361.2
124	121	Alfredo Simon	361.0
125	122	Mike Pelfrey	359.2
126	125	Jesse Chavez	358.9
127	123	Andrew Heaney	357.7
128	124	Kevin Gausman	357.0
129	126	Jarred Cosart	355.7
130	128	Patrick Corbin	353.3
131	129	Cody Anderson	352.4
132	130	Travis Wood	351.1
133	131	Michael Bolsinger	350.6
134	162	Bud Norris	349.6
135	132	Raisel Iglesias	349.1
136	133	Josh Tomlin	348.2
137	157	Nicholas Martinez	347.6
138	134	Aaron Nola	343.5
139	135	Tanner Roark	342.8
140	136	Luis Severino	342.8
141	155	Kendall Graveman	340.6
142	137	Matthew Wisler	338.3
143	138	Tyler Duffey	337.1
144	139	Jose Fernandez	335.5
145	140	Adam Warren	335.5
146	141	Chris Rusin	334.9
147	142	Jerad Eickhoff	334.5
148	144	Ricky Nolasco	333.4
149	145	Martin Perez	332.9
150	146	Ivan Nova	332.6
151	148	Chris Bassitt	329.8
152	149	Williams Perez	329.1
153	150	Adam Morgan	329.0
154	156	Joe Ross	328.9
155	NR	Tim Lincecum	328.9
156	151	Henry Owens	327.4
157	152	Odrisamer Despaigne	326.3
158	153	Marcus Stroman	325.5
159	154	Adam Conley	325.2
160	162	David Phelps	323.4
161	162	Trevor May	321.4
162	162	Michael Montgomery	317.8
163	162	Jesse Hahn	317.6
164	158	Justin Nicolino	316.3
165	162	Josh Collmenter	315.6
166	159	Steven Matz	315.5
167	160	Michael Lorenzen	314.7
168	161	Daniel Norris	314.3
169	162	Derek Holland	311.9
170	162	James Paxton	311.2
171	162	Matt Moore	310.9
172	162	Vidal Nuno	309.9
173	162	Yohan Flande	308.9
174	162	John Lamb	308.2
175	162	Wandy Rodriguez	307.8
176	162	Zachary Davies	307.4
177	162	Alex Gonzalez	306.9
178	162	Erik Johnson	306.9
179	162	Jonathan Gray	305.8
180	162	David Hale	305.3
181	162	Kris Medlen	303.7
182	NR	Jerome Williams	302.4
183	162	Matt Boyd	302.0

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