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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: 4/3/2016
1	1	Clayton Kershaw	595.4
2	2	Zack Greinke	553.6
3	3	Max Scherzer	539.5
4	4	Jake Arrieta	538.4
5	5	David Price	532.0
6	6	Madison Bumgarner	532.0
7	7	Chris Sale	511.1
8	8	Corey Kluber	503.0
9	9	Dallas Keuchel	501.5
10	10	Jon Lester	499.9
11	11	Cole Hamels	498.2
12	12	Felix Hernandez	487.6
13	13	Johnny Cueto	480.6
14	14	Jacob Degrom	475.0
15	15	Stephen Strasburg	474.3
16	16	John Lackey	470.6
17	17	Jordan Zimmermann	464.1
18	18	R.A. Dickey	463.3
19	19	Tyson Ross	462.4
20	20	Sonny Gray	462.0
21	21	James Shields	461.5
22	22	Chris Archer	460.7
23	23	Jose Quintana	460.6
24	24	Francisco Liriano	458.1
25	25	Gerrit Cole	455.1
26	26	Lance Lynn	446.3
27	27	Edinson Volquez	444.0
28	28	Julio Teheran	443.5
29	29	Carlos Carrasco	441.1
30	30	Wei-Yin Chen	441.0
31	31	Gio Gonzalez	440.2
32	32	Collin McHugh	438.2
33	33	Justin Verlander	438.0
34	34	Shelby Miller	437.0
35	35	Hisashi Iwakuma	436.5
36	36	Matt Harvey	436.2
37	37	Jorge de la Rosa	434.4
38	38	Mike Leake	433.6
40	40	Garrett Richards	430.9
41	41	Ian Kennedy	430.8
42	42	Yordano Ventura	428.6
43	43	Jeff Samardzija	428.0
44	44	Yovani Gallardo	427.4
45	45	Marco Estrada	424.2
46	46	Wade Miley	423.7
47	47	Scott Kazmir	423.4
48	48	Masahiro Tanaka	422.8
49	49	Ubaldo Jimenez	422.3
50	50	Jake Peavy	422.2
51	51	Danny Salazar	421.3
52	52	Jered Weaver	420.8
53	53	J.A. Happ	420.1
54	54	Chris Tillman	419.8
55	55	Jason Hammel	418.9
57	57	Kyle Gibson	416.3
59	59	Phil Hughes	414.9
60	60	Jake Odorizzi	414.4
61	61	Michael Fiers	414.3
62	62	Rick Porcello	413.2
63	63	Alex Wood	412.8
64	64	Bartolo Colon	412.5
65	65	Kyle Hendricks	409.0
66	66	Noah Syndergaard	407.1
67	67	Hector Santiago	405.6
68	68	Michael Wacha	400.9
69	69	Tom Koehler	398.6
70	70	Jonathon Niese	395.9
71	71	Andrew Cashner	395.8
72	72	Trevor Bauer	395.2
73	73	Carlos Martinez	392.0
75	75	Colby Lewis	387.2
76	76	Matthew Shoemaker	385.6
77	77	Anibal Sanchez	381.1
78	78	Lance McCullers	380.4
79	79	John Danks	379.5
80	80	Danny Duffy	378.9
81	81	Ervin Santana	378.8
82	82	Erasmo Ramirez	377.6
83	83	Scott Feldman	375.7
84	85	Chase Anderson	375.6
85	84	Nathan Eovaldi	374.3
86	86	Chris Young	374.0
88	88	Michael Pineda	373.3
89	89	Jeff Locke	373.2
90	90	Jimmy Nelson	371.8
91	91	Jaime Garcia	371.7
92	92	Drew Hutchison	371.3
93	93	Tom Milone	371.1
95	94	Taijuan Walker	369.3
96	96	Rubby De La Rosa	368.7
97	97	Chris Heston	368.3
98	98	Wily Peralta	366.3
99	99	Anthony DeSclafani	366.2
100	100	C.J. Wilson	364.7
101	101	Carlos Rodon	363.4
102	102	Joseph Kelly	362.4
103	105	Brett Anderson	361.8
104	103	Mat Latos	361.3
105	106	Jeremy Hellickson	361.3
106	107	Robbie Ray	361.2
108	104	Ryan Vogelsong	360.8
109	109	Eduardo Rodriguez	358.3
110	110	Doug Fister	355.4
111	112	CC Sabathia	355.2
112	111	Clay Buchholz	353.7
113	113	Drew Smyly	353.4
114	114	Roenis Elias	352.7
115	115	Taylor Jungmann	352.0
116	117	Chad Bettis	350.6
117	116	Matt Garza	349.9
118	118	Nate Karns	347.3
119	119	Charlie Morton	346.7
120	120	Jeremy Guthrie	346.7
121	121	Alfredo Simon	346.5
122	122	Mike Pelfrey	344.7
123	123	Andrew Heaney	343.2
124	124	Kevin Gausman	342.5
125	126	Jarred Cosart	341.2
126	125	Jesse Chavez	340.7
127	128	Patrick Corbin	338.8
129	129	Cody Anderson	337.9
130	130	Travis Wood	336.6
131	131	Michael Bolsinger	336.1
132	133	Josh Tomlin	333.7
133	132	Raisel Iglesias	332.3
134	134	Aaron Nola	329.0
135	135	Tanner Roark	328.3
136	136	Luis Severino	328.3
137	137	Matthew Wisler	323.8
138	138	Tyler Duffey	322.6
139	139	Jose Fernandez	321.0
140	140	Adam Warren	321.0
141	141	Chris Rusin	320.4
142	142	Jerad Eickhoff	320.0
143	144	Ricky Nolasco	318.9
144	145	Martin Perez	318.4
145	146	Ivan Nova	318.1
146	143	Jason Vargas	317.6
147	147	Adam Wainwright	315.5
148	148	Chris Bassitt	315.3
149	149	Williams Perez	314.6
150	150	Adam Morgan	314.5
151	151	Henry Owens	312.9
152	153	Marcus Stroman	311.0
153	154	Adam Conley	310.7
154	152	Odrisamer Despaigne	309.6
155	155	Kendall Graveman	308.1
156	156	Joe Ross	306.9
157	157	Nicholas Martinez	306.9
158	158	Justin Nicolino	301.8
159	159	Steven Matz	301.0
160	160	Michael Lorenzen	300.2

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