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Home>Ratings>Starting Pitcher Rankings

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: 5/9/2019
1	1	Max Scherzer	525.9
2	3	Justin Verlander	525.2
3	4	Chris Sale	513.0
4	2	Jacob Degrom	512.0
5	6	Trevor Bauer	481.7
6	7	Gerrit Cole	480.3
7	12	Zack Greinke	478.1
8	11	Stephen Strasburg	476.4
9	9	Clayton Kershaw	472.7
10	5	Corey Kluber	471.5
11	13	Blake Snell	468.0
12	10	Carlos Carrasco	465.5
13	8	Aaron Nola	459.1
14	16	Patrick Corbin	457.3
15	17	German Marquez	455.3
16	14	Kyle Hendricks	454.2
17	20	Jon Lester	453.3
18	19	Michael Clevinger	451.9
19	22	Cole Hamels	451.2
20	29	Jose Berrios	449.9
21	15	Masahiro Tanaka	448.8
22	25	David Price	444.5
23	28	James Paxton	443.1
24	30	Robbie Ray	441.1
25	34	Charlie Morton	440.1
26	26	Jose Quintana	439.5
27	23	Julio Teheran	439.3
28	48	Luis Castillo	438.3
29	24	J.A. Happ	434.1
30	33	Jake Arrieta	431.0
31	18	Kyle Freeland	428.1
32	21	Rich Hill	428.0
33	54	Matt Boyd	427.5
34	39	Jake Odorizzi	427.0
35	32	Jhoulys Chacin	423.9
36	40	Kyle Gibson	423.4
37	37	Madison Bumgarner	420.4
38	45	Rick Porcello	418.7
39	43	Jameson Taillon	417.8
40	36	Michael Fiers	417.6
41	38	Chris Archer	417.5
42	44	Trevor Williams	416.4
43	42	Kevin Gausman	415.1
44	46	CC Sabathia	414.6
45	41	Noah Syndergaard	413.4
46	50	Jonathan Gray	411.5
47	31	Mike Foltynewicz	409.4
48	51	Walker Buehler	408.8
49	71	Hyun-Jin Ryu	407.8
50	27	Luis Severino	405.9
51	52	Zack Wheeler	405.6
52	47	Gio Gonzalez	403.0
53	95	Mike Minor	401.8
54	53	Tanner Roark	400.1
55	63	Miles Mikolas	400.1
56	55	Eduardo Rodriguez	398.7
57	35	Dallas Keuchel	397.8
58	56	Jose Urena	395.1
59	72	Jack Flaherty	394.7
60	75	Sonny Gray	393.3
61	49	Chase Anderson	392.2
62	64	Lance Lynn	387.3
63	89	Marco Gonzales	386.3
64	91	Zachary Davies	385.7
65	83	Wade Miley	383.8
66	81	Marcus Stroman	383.4
67	76	Dylan Bundy	383.3
68	62	Mike Leake	382.1
69	73	Anibal Sanchez	380.5
70	69	Reynaldo Lopez	379.6
71	134	Chris Paddack	378.5
72	88	Steven Matz	377.3
73	141	Tyler Glasnow	377.0
74	67	Sean Newcomb	374.6
75	155	Caleb Smith	374.6
76	68	Zachary Godley	374.6
77	85	Derek Holland	374.3
78	57	Tyler Anderson	372.9
79	99	Andrew Cashner	372.8
80	78	Jakob Junis	372.0
81	86	Kenta Maeda	371.3
82	65	Ivan Nova	370.4
83	87	Felix Hernandez	370.0
84	110	Ryne Stanek	369.4
85	61	Marco Estrada	369.0
86	92	Brad Keller	368.0
87	145	Spencer Turnbull	363.9
88	155	Martin Perez	363.5
89	125	Yusei Kikuchi	363.4
90	155	Shane Bieber	362.8
91	155	Domingo German	362.8
92	106	Ross Stripling	362.6
93	139	Zach Eflin	362.3
94	79	Jordan Zimmermann	362.2
95	82	Daniel Straily	361.8
96	122	Yonny Chirinos	361.5
97	468	Luke Weaver	359.9
98	155	Matt Strahm	359.3
99	90	Jeremy Hellickson	358.8
100	77	Danny Duffy	358.7

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