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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: 6/7/2023
1	11	Framber Valdez	464.6
2	5	Shohei Ohtani	463.4
3	1	Gerrit Cole	460.5
4	12	Zac Gallen	459.9
5	7	Max Scherzer	451.0
6	26	Kevin Gausman	450.2
7	6	Yu Darvish	449.9
8	9	Corbin Burnes	449.1
9	21	Shane McClanahan	448.0
10	19	Luis Castillo	445.8
11	17	Aaron Nola	445.5
12	8	Zack Wheeler	445.2
13	23	Cristian Javier	443.3
14	25	Logan Webb	442.9
15	2	Sandy Alcantara	440.4
16	30	Merrill Kelly	439.3
17	24	Clayton Kershaw	436.0
18	3	Julio Urias	435.7
19	4	Dylan Cease	434.4
20	58	Nathan Eovaldi	433.7
21	10	Shane Bieber	432.6
22	33	Marcus Stroman	431.7
23	45	Spencer Strider	430.4
24	14	Max Fried	428.3
25	13	Brandon Woodruff	426.7
26	32	Chris Bassitt	422.9
27	20	Justin Verlander	421.1
28	22	Joe Musgrove	420.9
29	28	Charlie Morton	418.3
30	59	Joe Ryan	416.4
31	42	Logan Gilbert	413.0
32	50	Lucas Giolito	412.5
33	54	Sonny Gray	411.6
34	66	Jonathan Gray	410.1
35	46	Miles Mikolas	408.2
36	64	Hunter Greene	405.5
37	29	Nestor Cortes	402.8
38	37	Tony Gonsolin	401.6
39	75	Mitch Keller	401.3
40	41	Blake Snell	401.1
41	74	Alex Cobb	399.6
42	16	Alek Manoah	399.2
43	72	George Kirby	398.6
44	43	Pablo Lopez	398.5
45	55	Drew Rasmussen	396.8
46	99	Eduardo Rodriguez	396.3
47	40	Martin Perez	395.5
48	67	Jose Berrios	394.1
49	27	Tyler Anderson	393.5
50	63	Kyle Freeland	392.5
51	44	Jordan Montgomery	390.7
52	76	Michael Wacha	390.4
53	100	Michael Kopech	389.4
54	53	Freddy Peralta	389.0
55	35	Luis Garcia	388.2
56	60	Taijuan Walker	388.2
57	73	Jesus Luzardo	387.8
58	123	Tyler Wells	386.4
59	102	Justin Steele	384.7
60	31	Robbie Ray	384.5
61	18	Triston McKenzie	384.1
62	123	Bryce Elder	383.2
63	90	Drew Smyly	382.0
64	77	Rich Hill	380.9
65	80	Jacob Degrom	380.9
66	98	Josiah Gray	379.8
67	62	Patrick Sandoval	379.4
68	123	Zach Eflin	379.2
69	89	Kyle Gibson	379.2
70	61	Jeffrey Springs	378.5
71	82	Zack Greinke	377.7
72	39	Cal Quantrill	376.6
73	52	Brady Singer	376.2
74	34	Kyle Wright	376.1
75	47	Eric Lauer	374.7
76	123	Chris Sale	374.3
77	38	German Marquez	373.7
78	116	Domingo German	373.7
79	106	Edward Cabrera	373.6
80	86	Dean Kremer	373.4
81	123	Michael Lorenzen	372.7
82	122	Andrew Heaney	371.8
83	49	Ranger Suarez	371.2
84	123	MacKenzie Gore	371.1
85	56	Nick Pivetta	370.8
86	123	Hunter Brown	370.2
87	123	Bailey Ober	368.0
88	123	JP Sears	367.2
89	NR	Kodai Senga	367.1
90	48	Jameson Taillon	367.0
91	103	Dustin May	366.0
92	71	Tyler Mahle	365.6
93	15	Carlos Rodon	365.6
94	70	Lance Lynn	363.8
95	57	Jose Urquidy	363.2
96	123	Anthony DeSclafani	362.6
97	83	Reid Detmers	362.5
98	123	Brayan Bello	361.5
99	115	Michael Clevinger	360.9
100	114	Braxton Garrett	360.7

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