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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: 9/14/2017
1	3	Corey Kluber	621.5
2	2	Max Scherzer	600.5
3	1	Clayton Kershaw	596.4
4	8	Chris Sale	591.8
5	6	Justin Verlander	562.9
6	15	Zack Greinke	560.6
7	23	Stephen Strasburg	542.7
8	7	Jake Arrieta	534.4
9	25	Carlos Carrasco	532.1
10	5	Madison Bumgarner	527.8
11	26	Carlos Martinez	521.2
12	43	Gio Gonzalez	520.3
13	33	Ervin Santana	515.0
14	67	Robbie Ray	514.8
15	4	Jon Lester	513.8
16	29	Jacob Degrom	513.4
17	18	Chris Archer	511.0
18	17	Jose Quintana	511.0
19	11	Kyle Hendricks	510.6
20	21	Masahiro Tanaka	498.3
21	14	Cole Hamels	498.1
22	30	Jeff Samardzija	494.7
23	16	John Lackey	493.8
24	22	Julio Teheran	491.4
25	19	J.A. Happ	490.4
26	9	Johnny Cueto	490.1
27	56	Gerrit Cole	488.6
28	12	Rick Porcello	488.5
29	58	Marcus Stroman	487.6
30	13	Marco Estrada	487.5
31	60	Drew Pomeranz	486.3
32	47	Trevor Bauer	484.2
33	92	Jimmy Nelson	482.6
34	31	Dallas Keuchel	482.5
35	158	Luis Severino	478.9
36	78	Sonny Gray	477.4
37	37	Tanner Roark	474.3
38	10	David Price	474.1
39	89	Taijuan Walker	473.8
40	38	R.A. Dickey	472.5
41	73	Chase Anderson	471.5
42	103	Yu Darvish	470.7
43	79	Rich Hill	469.6
44	97	Zachary Davies	465.9
45	48	Kevin Gausman	465.5
46	75	Michael Fulmer	465.2
47	27	Jake Odorizzi	463.5
48	54	CC Sabathia	462.2
49	91	Andrew Cashner	461.9
50	68	Kenta Maeda	461.8
51	24	Ian Kennedy	459.0
52	52	Danny Duffy	458.6
53	42	Jason Hammel	457.9
54	59	Daniel Straily	456.8
55	158	Lance Lynn	455.3
56	114	James Paxton	453.5
57	66	Mike Leake	449.8
58	132	Dylan Bundy	447.1
59	158	Zachary Godley	446.6
60	46	Danny Salazar	445.9
61	70	Jonathan Gray	445.8
62	96	Michael Wacha	445.7
63	28	Felix Hernandez	444.6
64	20	Noah Syndergaard	442.3
65	45	Jeremy Hellickson	440.7
66	137	Jhoulys Chacin	440.7
67	158	Patrick Corbin	440.0
68	88	Kyle Gibson	439.2
69	62	Wade Miley	438.7
70	51	Jerad Eickhoff	437.4
71	158	Aaron Nola	436.6
72	57	Michael Fiers	436.0
73	111	Eduardo Rodriguez	435.7
74	106	Ivan Nova	435.0
75	90	Tyler Chatwood	434.9
76	55	Matt Moore	434.9
77	94	Jaime Garcia	433.8
78	81	Josh Tomlin	432.8
79	76	Ricky Nolasco	431.1
80	158	Alex Cobb	431.0
81	140	Chad Kuhl	430.9
82	93	Sean Manaea	428.3
83	72	Miguel Gonzalez	427.8
84	100	Martin Perez	426.9
85	36	Francisco Liriano	426.9
86	49	Michael Pineda	426.8
87	115	Mike Foltynewicz	425.6
88	158	Alex Wood	425.2
89	139	Ariel Miranda	422.1
90	158	Michael Clevinger	421.4
91	158	German Marquez	421.1
92	74	James Shields	420.1
93	158	Jose Berrios	419.0
94	NR	Kyle Freeland	416.8
95	53	Matthew Shoemaker	416.1
96	82	Edinson Volquez	415.2
97	158	Jose Urena	414.2
98	NR	Jordan Montgomery	414.1
99	41	Bartolo Colon	413.1
100	NR	Luis Castillo	412.9

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