Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings: Updated look at game's most unpredictable position
Scott Pianowski takes a fresh look at the starting pitcher landscape.
How do you make the fantasy gods laugh? Put together a rank of starting pitchers. Starting pitchers are the sirens of fantasy baseball, forever enticing us, forever teasing us, forever breaking our hearts.
They’ll surge and they’ll slump, they’ll get hot and they’ll break down. In between injuries, there will be changes in approach, velocity gains and decreases and a number of other factors we can hardly perceive. Still, the game is to make intelligent guesses on every position, so we trudge on.
Just keep in mind these ranks are more guess than anything, similar to any list at this maddening position. What’s happened to this point is merely an audition; we’re trying to predict the future here. If I were headed into a fresh draft tonight, I’d be working off this list.
At the very bottom, I ranked all the injured pitchers. That’s a courtesy list and not for debate. The Big Tickets $33 Paul Skenes $32 Cristopher Sánchez $30 Jacob Misiorowski $28 Cam Schlittler $28 Yoshinobu Yamamoto $26 Bryan Woo $25 Chase Burns $25 Chris Sale $25 Jacob deGrom $22 Shohei Ohtani Skenes keeps improving, taking his walk rate down and getting better at limiting hard contact.
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