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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: CURRENT RANKINGS
1	NR	Clayton Kershaw	609.9
2	NR	Zack Greinke	568.1
3	NR	Max Scherzer	554.0
4	NR	Jake Arrieta	552.9
5	NR	David Price	546.5
6	NR	Madison Bumgarner	546.5
7	NR	Chris Sale	525.6
8	NR	Corey Kluber	517.5
9	NR	Dallas Keuchel	516.0
10	NR	Jon Lester	514.4
11	NR	Cole Hamels	512.7
12	NR	Felix Hernandez	502.1
13	NR	Johnny Cueto	495.1
14	NR	Jacob Degrom	489.5
15	NR	Stephen Strasburg	488.8
16	NR	John Lackey	485.1
17	NR	Jordan Zimmermann	478.6
18	NR	R.A. Dickey	477.8
19	NR	Tyson Ross	476.9
20	NR	Sonny Gray	476.5
21	NR	James Shields	476.0
22	NR	Chris Archer	475.2
23	NR	Jose Quintana	475.1
24	NR	Francisco Liriano	472.6
25	NR	Gerrit Cole	469.6
26	NR	Lance Lynn	460.8
27	NR	Edinson Volquez	458.5
28	NR	Julio Teheran	458.0
29	NR	Carlos Carrasco	455.6
30	NR	Wei-Yin Chen	455.5
31	NR	Gio Gonzalez	454.7
32	NR	Collin McHugh	452.7
33	NR	Justin Verlander	452.5
34	NR	Shelby Miller	451.5
35	NR	Hisashi Iwakuma	451.0
36	NR	Matt Harvey	450.7
37	NR	Jorge de la Rosa	448.9
38	NR	Mike Leake	448.1
39	NR	Dan Haren	446.6
40	NR	Garrett Richards	445.4
41	NR	Ian Kennedy	445.3
42	NR	Yordano Ventura	443.1
43	NR	Jeff Samardzija	442.5
44	NR	Yovani Gallardo	441.9
45	NR	Marco Estrada	438.7
46	NR	Wade Miley	438.2
47	NR	Scott Kazmir	437.9
48	NR	Masahiro Tanaka	437.3
49	NR	Ubaldo Jimenez	436.8
50	NR	Jake Peavy	436.7

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