Early 2022 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - 5x5 Roto Mixed Leagues

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The 2022 MLB season will hopefully be here before we know it, and similar to previous years we are ready to start releasing our first-cut rankings! Below in this article you'll see our MLB team's early 2022 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. This time of year is always exciting for baseball fans and fantasy baseball players, and we are more excited than ever. Our incredible MLB team is here to help you prep for the upcoming 2022 season. RotoBaller's MLB writing staff has already hit the ground running with our 2022 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit, various fantasy baseball rankings for different league types and scoring formats, and draft analysis articles digging into this year's fantasy baseball sleepers and breakouts. If you don't already have RotoBaller's free fantasy baseball mobile app, make sure you download it and turn on the free push notification alerts to stay on top of the latest MLB news and fantasy analysis.

Four of our lead fantasy baseball analysts - Nick Mariano, Pierre Camus, Nicklaus Gaut and JB Branson - have analyzed all of the MLB offseason moves regarding free agents, trades and more. Their consensus fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for 2022 can be found below, and will be updated regularly up until opening day.

Be sure to also bookmark our main 2022 fantasy baseball rankings dashboard. It's already loaded up with tons of other great rankings including H2H point leagues, dynasty prospect rankings, impact rookie rankings for 2022 and dynasty/keeper rankings as well.

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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings

Staff ranks are as of January 27th, 2022. They are for 5x5 category mixed roto leagues, and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard.

Ranking	Tier	Player	Position
1	1	Shohei Ohtani	DH/SP
2	1	Corbin Burnes	SP
3	1	Gerrit Cole	SP
4	1	Walker Buehler	SP
5	1	Jacob deGrom	SP
6	1	Max Scherzer	SP
7	2	Brandon Woodruff	SP
8	2	Zack Wheeler	SP
9	2	Shane Bieber	SP
10	2	Julio Urias	SP
11	3	Robbie Ray	SP
12	3	Lucas Giolito	SP
13	3	Sandy Alcantara	SP
14	3	Lance Lynn	SP
15	3	Freddy Peralta	SP
16	3	Aaron Nola	SP
17	3	Logan Webb	SP
18	3	Chris Sale	SP
19	3	Kevin Gausman	SP
20	3	Jose Berrios	SP
21	4	Jack Flaherty	SP
22	4	Max Fried	SP
23	4	Luis Castillo	SP
24	4	Frankie Montas	SP
25	4	Joe Musgrove	SP
26	4	Alek Manoah	SP
27	4	Trevor Rogers	SP
28	4	Charlie Morton	SP
29	4	Yu Darvish	SP
30	4	Carlos Rodon	SP
31	4	Dylan Cease	SP
32	5	Pablo Lopez	SP
33	5	Shane McClanahan	SP
34	5	Justin Verlander	SP
35	5	Framber Valdez	SP
36	5	Lance McCullers Jr.	SP
37	5	Tyler Mahle	SP
38	5	Chris Bassitt	SP
39	5	Blake Snell	SP
40	6	Ian Anderson	SP
41	6	Shane Baz	SP
42	6	Zac Gallen	SP
43	6	Eduardo Rodriguez	SP
44	6	Nathan Eovaldi	SP
45	6	Sean Manaea	SP
46	6	Luis Garcia	SP
47	6	Clayton Kershaw	SP
48	7	Sonny Gray	SP
49	7	Ranger Suarez	SP/RP
50	7	Marcus Stroman	SP
51	7	Logan Gilbert	SP
52	7	Jose Urquidy	SP
53	7	Luis Severino	SP
54	7	Mike Clevinger	SP
55	7	John Means	SP
56	7	Tanner Houck	SP/RP
57	7	Joe Ryan	SP
58	7	Patrick Sandoval	SP
59	7	Adam Wainwright	SP
60	7	Tarik Skubal	SP
61	8	German Marquez	SP
62	8	Anthony DeSclafani	SP
63	8	Casey Mize	SP
64	8	Aaron Civale	SP
65	8	Hyun Jin Ryu	SP
66	8	Alex Wood	SP
67	8	Noah Syndergaard	SP
68	8	Triston McKenzie	SP
69	8	Jordan Montgomery	SP
70	8	Huascar Ynoa	SP
71	8	Kyle Hendricks	SP
72	8	Zach Plesac	SP
73	9	Steven Matz	SP
74	9	Adbert Alzolay	SP/RP
75	9	Tony Gonsolin	SP
76	9	Josiah Gray	SP
77	9	Drew Rasmussen	SP/RP
78	9	Yusei Kikuchi	SP
79	9	Tylor Megill	SP
80	9	Marco Gonzales	SP
81	9	Reiver Sanmartin	SP
82	9	Jon Gray	SP
83	9	Cristian Javier	SP/RP
84	9	Jameson Taillon	SP
85	9	Stephen Strasburg	SP
86	9	Nestor Cortes Jr.	SP/RP
87	9	Zack Greinke	SP
88	9	James Kaprielian	SP
89	9	Trevor Bauer	SP
90	9	Chris Paddack	SP
91	9	Bailey Ober	SP
92	9	Jesus Luzardo	SP
93	10	Taijuan Walker	SP
94	10	Dinelson Lamet	SP/RP
95	10	Sixto Sanchez	SP
96	10	Cal Quantrill	SP/RP
97	10	Andrew Heaney	SP
98	10	Elieser Hernandez	SP
99	10	Brady Singer	SP
100	10	Carlos Carrasco	SP
101	10	Dane Dunning	SP
102	10	Zach Eflin	SP
103	10	Dylan Bundy	SP
104	10	Alex Cobb	SP
105	10	Kyle Gibson	SP
106	10	Luis Patino	SP
107	10	Domingo German	SP
108	10	Patrick Corbin	SP
109	10	Corey Kluber	SP
110	11	Carlos Hernandez	SP
111	11	Reid Detmers	SP
112	11	Kenta Maeda	SP
113	11	Madison Bumgarner	SP
114	11	Dustin May	SP
115	11	Griffin Canning	SP
116	11	Nate Pearson	SP
117	11	Michael Pineda	SP
118	11	Eric Lauer	SP
119	11	Luis Gil	SP
120	11	Wade Miley	SP
121	11	Hunter Greene	SP
122	12	Austin Gomber	SP
123	12	Dakota Hudson	SP
124	12	Mike Minor	SP
125	12	Edward Cabrera	SP
126	12	Chris Flexen	SP
127	12	Nick Pivetta	SP
128	12	David Price	SP
129	12	Daniel Lynch	SP
130	12	JT Brubaker	SP
131	12	Luke Weaver	SP
132	12	Jorge Alcala	SP
133	12	Jake Odorizzi	SP
134	12	Miles Mikolas	SP
135	12	Grayson Rodriguez	SP
136	12	Merrill Kelly	SP
137	12	Matthew Boyd	SP
138	12	Jose Suarez	SP
139	12	Ryan Yarbrough	SP/RP
140	13	Rich Hill	SP
141	13	Drew Smyly	SP
142	13	Adrian Houser	SP
143	13	Dallas Keuchel	SP
144	13	Roansy Contreras	SP
145	13	Keegan Akin	SP
146	13	David Peterson	SP
147	13	Zach Thompson	SP
148	13	Antonio Senzatela	SP
149	13	Cole Irvin	SP
150	13	Kyle Freeland	SP
151	13	Vladimir Gutierrez	SP
152	13	Max Meyer	SP
153	13	Collin McHugh	SP/RP
154	14	Tyler Anderson	SP
155	14	Brad Keller	SP
156	14	Tyler Glasnow	SP
157	14	Kyle Funkhouser	SP
158	14	Glenn Otto	SP
159	14	Mitch Keller	SP
160	14	Jose Urena	SP/RP
161	14	Joe Ross	SP
162	14	Matt Manning	SP
163	14	Justus Sheffield	SP
164	14	Johnny Cueto	SP
165	14	Nick Lodolo	SP
166	14	Justin Dunn	SP
167	14	Reynaldo Lopez	SP/RP
168	14	Danny Duffy	SP
169	14	Jose Quintana	SP
170	14	Kris Bubic	SP
171	14	Mike Soroka	SP
172	15	Nick Martinez	SP
173	15	Ryan Weathers	SP
174	15	Trevor Williams	SP
175	15	Kohei Arihara	SP
176	15	Dean Kremer	SP
177	15	Cade Cavalli	SP
178	15	Ross Stripling	SP/RP
179	15	J.A. Happ	SP
180	15	Jakob Junis	SP/RP
181	15	Spencer Howard	SP
182	15	Taylor Hearn	SP
183	16	Jordan Lyles	SP
184	16	Caleb Smith	SP/RP
185	16	Alec Mills	SP/RP
186	16	Zach Davies	SP
187	16	Trent Thornton	SP
188	16	Daulton Jefferies	SP
189	16	Michael Wacha	SP
190	16	Vince Velasquez	SP
191	16	Josh Lindblom	SP
192	16	Art Warren	SP
193	16	Mike Foltynewicz	SP
194	16	Tyler Alexander	SP/RP
195	16	Kyle Muller	SP
196	16	Deivi Garcia	SP
197	16	Tucker Davidson	SP
198	16	Chad Kuhl	SP/RP
199	16	Kolby Allard	SP
200	16	Erick Fedde	SP
201	16	Eli Morgan	SP
202	16	Anthony Kay	SP
203	17	George Kirby	SP
204	17	Brent Honeywell Jr.	SP
205	17	Paolo Espino	SP/RP
206	17	Garrett Richards	SP
207	17	Bailey Falter	SP/RP
208	17	Sammy Long	SP/RP
209	17	Justin Steele	SP
210	17	Tyler Beede	SP
211	17	John Gant	SP/RP
212	17	Matt Liberatore	SP
213	17	James Paxton	SP
214	17	MacKenzie Gore	SP
215	17	Kyle Wright	SP
216	17	Josh Fleming	SP/RP
217	17	Touki Toussaint	SP
218	17	Cody Morris	SP
219	17	Mitch White	SP/RP
220	17	Jackson Kowar	SP
221	17	Matt Brash	SP
222	17	Kwang Hyun Kim	SP/RP
223	17	Michael King	SP
224	17	Dylan Coleman	SP
225	17	Yonny Chirinos	SP

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