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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: 8/29/2017
1	2	Max Scherzer	613.8
2	3	Corey Kluber	607.6
3	1	Clayton Kershaw	602.4
4	8	Chris Sale	587.5
5	15	Zack Greinke	549.3
6	6	Justin Verlander	545.4
7	5	Madison Bumgarner	539.4
8	7	Jake Arrieta	534.9
9	18	Chris Archer	529.3
10	43	Gio Gonzalez	525.0
11	29	Jacob Degrom	521.0
12	23	Stephen Strasburg	518.9
13	4	Jon Lester	515.7
14	25	Carlos Carrasco	512.4
15	26	Carlos Martinez	511.6
16	33	Ervin Santana	509.9
17	11	Kyle Hendricks	503.8
18	21	Masahiro Tanaka	500.7
19	17	Jose Quintana	499.7
20	14	Cole Hamels	498.1
21	12	Rick Porcello	492.5
22	30	Jeff Samardzija	491.8
23	67	Robbie Ray	491.5
24	9	Johnny Cueto	489.5
25	13	Marco Estrada	484.0
26	60	Drew Pomeranz	483.0
27	31	Dallas Keuchel	482.9
28	19	J.A. Happ	482.8
29	58	Marcus Stroman	482.0
30	22	Julio Teheran	481.4
31	56	Gerrit Cole	481.3
32	16	John Lackey	479.6
33	10	David Price	478.1
34	38	R.A. Dickey	475.5
35	103	Yu Darvish	472.7
36	47	Trevor Bauer	471.7
37	59	Daniel Straily	470.6
38	75	Michael Fulmer	468.8
39	92	Jimmy Nelson	468.1
40	79	Rich Hill	467.6
41	68	Kenta Maeda	467.2
42	37	Tanner Roark	465.8
43	57	Michael Fiers	463.4
44	52	Danny Duffy	462.6
45	78	Sonny Gray	462.2
46	42	Jason Hammel	461.6
47	73	Chase Anderson	460.9
48	24	Ian Kennedy	460.1
49	158	Luis Severino	459.7
50	54	CC Sabathia	459.5
51	89	Taijuan Walker	458.1
52	114	James Paxton	457.5
53	48	Kevin Gausman	457.0
54	27	Jake Odorizzi	454.3
55	97	Zachary Davies	453.2
56	46	Danny Salazar	451.8
57	28	Felix Hernandez	448.6
58	45	Jeremy Hellickson	448.2
59	51	Jerad Eickhoff	446.9
60	20	Noah Syndergaard	446.3
61	158	Lance Lynn	443.0
62	91	Andrew Cashner	441.1
63	106	Ivan Nova	439.4
64	55	Matt Moore	437.0
65	66	Mike Leake	436.5
66	158	Patrick Corbin	435.7
67	137	Jhoulys Chacin	434.9
68	72	Miguel Gonzalez	434.7
69	62	Wade Miley	434.4
70	76	Ricky Nolasco	431.2
71	70	Jonathan Gray	430.9
72	36	Francisco Liriano	430.9
73	49	Michael Pineda	430.8
74	94	Jaime Garcia	430.1
75	96	Michael Wacha	430.0
76	158	Alex Wood	430.0
77	158	Aaron Nola	429.1
78	132	Dylan Bundy	428.5
79	93	Sean Manaea	428.3
80	90	Tyler Chatwood	427.9
81	158	Zachary Godley	427.9
82	81	Josh Tomlin	426.8
83	111	Eduardo Rodriguez	425.6
84	139	Ariel Miranda	422.7
85	53	Matthew Shoemaker	420.1
86	100	Martin Perez	419.7
87	82	Edinson Volquez	419.2
88	88	Kyle Gibson	418.7
89	158	German Marquez	417.9
90	115	Mike Foltynewicz	417.6
91	158	Alex Cobb	417.2
92	50	Hector Santiago	416.6
93	NR	Kyle Freeland	416.1
94	98	Adam Wainwright	415.6
95	140	Chad Kuhl	413.7
96	NR	Jordan Montgomery	412.7
97	41	Bartolo Colon	411.7
98	39	Aaron Sanchez	411.2
99	80	Jordan Zimmermann	408.3
100	74	James Shields	408.3

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