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RotoBaller is constantly working to try and bring fantasy baseball managers the best advice, especially during draft season. A big part of that includes regular updates to our tiered rankings for all formats. In this article, you will find our updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for points leagues as of March 11.
In this article below, we will be taking a look at our starting pitcher rankings list put together by RotoBaller's lead fantasy baseball points analyst, Nicklaus Gaut. Starters logging over 200 innings in a season is a rarity these days, as only eight pitchers threw over 200-plus innings in 2022. Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara led the way with 228 2/3 innings last season. Justin Verlander was the last pitcher to throw for over 250 innings, and that was over a decade ago. Drafting pitchers in early rounds can be risky with injuries and workload management. However, pitching is a premium in points leagues; ADP for starting pitchers will be higher as opposed to roto leagues, as fantasy managers take starters who can rack up innings, quality starts, and strikeouts. Gerrit Cole, Corbin Burnes, Sandy Alcantara, and Aaron Nola lead the way for starters and are ranked in the top 20 overall in RotoBaller's top-300 rankings for points leagues. We're here to help sort it out with our 2023 fantasy baseball rankings. Let's see where key starters like Cristian Javier, Triston McKenzie, George Kirby, Nick Lodolo, Jesus Luzardo, Patrick Sandoval, Kodai Senga, and Jeffrey Springs rank, among others.
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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings- Points Leagues
These rankings are for points and head-to-head points leagues. You can also see our roto fantasy baseball rankings.
Before we get to the rankings, let's quickly review points leagues and how they differ from other formats. Typically, points leagues have different league settings and scoring formats than other fantasy baseball leagues. Different MLB stats and categories are assigned different point values, which can vary by individual league settings. Those different point buckets are then added up over the course of a scoring period or season.
In many cases, hitters who walk more and strike out less are preferred for points leagues. Also, many league formats tend to give more weight to pitchers than normal, as they can easily accrue points through categories like Innings Pitched. These are the general frameworks that we use for our points league rankings below, and explain why they look different than more standard 5x5 roto fantasy baseball rankings.
Last updated on Sunday 3/5 at 6:00 am ET:
| SP Tier | SP Ranking | Player Name | Pos | Overall |
| 1 | 1 | Gerrit Cole | SP | 4 |
| 1 | 2 | Shohei Ohtani | DH/SP | 5 |
| 1 | 3 | Corbin Burnes | SP | 9 |
| 1 | 4 | Sandy Alcantara | SP | 18 |
| 1 | 5 | Aaron Nola | SP | 20 |
| 2 | 6 | Justin Verlander | SP | 30 |
| 2 | 7 | Luis Castillo | SP | 31 |
| 2 | 8 | Shane Bieber | SP | 32 |
| 2 | 9 | Shane McClanahan | SP | 33 |
| 2 | 10 | Spencer Strider | SP | 34 |
| 2 | 11 | Max Scherzer | SP | 36 |
| 2 | 12 | Kevin Gausman | SP | 40 |
| 3 | 13 | Framber Valdez | SP | 41 |
| 3 | 14 | Zack Wheeler | SP | 44 |
| 3 | 15 | Brandon Woodruff | SP | 48 |
| 3 | 16 | Max Fried | SP | 51 |
| 3 | 17 | Jacob deGrom | SP | 52 |
| 3 | 18 | Yu Darvish | SP | 56 |
| 4 | 19 | Alek Manoah | SP | 61 |
| 4 | 20 | Dylan Cease | SP | 63 |
| 4 | 21 | Julio Urias | SP | 64 |
| 4 | 22 | Robbie Ray | SP | 70 |
| 4 | 23 | Cristian Javier | SP/RP | 75 |
| 4 | 24 | Zac Gallen | SP | 80 |
| 4 | 25 | Triston McKenzie | SP | 84 |
| 4 | 26 | Charlie Morton | SP | 93 |
| 4 | 27 | Joe Musgrove | SP | 102 |
| 4 | 28 | Logan Webb | SP | 120 |
| 5 | 29 | Logan Gilbert | SP | 124 |
| 5 | 30 | Nestor Cortes Jr. | SP/RP | 128 |
| 5 | 31 | Jordan Montgomery | SP | 135 |
| 5 | 32 | Pablo Lopez | SP | 137 |
| 5 | 33 | Hunter Greene | SP | 138 |
| 5 | 34 | Blake Snell | SP | 145 |
| 5 | 35 | Brady Singer | SP | 146 |
| 5 | 36 | Lance Lynn | SP | 155 |
| 5 | 37 | Chris Sale | SP | 156 |
| 5 | 38 | Chris Bassitt | SP | 158 |
| 6 | 39 | Carlos Rodon | SP | 26 |
| 6 | 40 | Joe Ryan | SP | 160 |
| 6 | 41 | Lucas Giolito | SP | 161 |
| 6 | 42 | Dustin May | SP | 163 |
| 6 | 43 | Kyle Wright | SP | 164 |
| 6 | 44 | Nick Lodolo | SP | 170 |
| 7 | 45 | Luis Severino | SP | 171 |
| 7 | 46 | George Kirby | SP | 175 |
| 7 | 47 | Luis Garcia (SP) | SP | 178 |
| 7 | 48 | Patrick Sandoval | SP | 193 |
| 7 | 49 | Tyler Glasnow | SP | 194 |
| 7 | 50 | Jose Berrios | SP | 195 |
| 7 | 51 | Merrill Kelly | SP | 197 |
| 7 | 52 | Alex Cobb | SP | 199 |
| 7 | 53 | Tony Gonsolin | SP | 200 |
| 7 | 54 | Drew Rasmussen | SP | 201 |
| 7 | 55 | Jon Gray | SP | 202 |
| 7 | 56 | Kodai Senga | SP | 205 |
| 7 | 57 | Nathan Eovaldi | SP | 207 |
| 7 | 58 | Miles Mikolas | SP | 209 |
| 8 | 59 | Jack Flaherty | SP | 211 |
| 8 | 60 | Reid Detmers | SP | 216 |
| 8 | 61 | Tyler Anderson | SP | 226 |
| 8 | 62 | Tyler Mahle | SP | 228 |
| 8 | 63 | Jesus Luzardo | SP | 231 |
| 8 | 64 | Andrew Heaney | SP | 233 |
| 8 | 65 | Martin Perez | SP | 234 |
| 8 | 66 | Sean Manaea | SP | 238 |
| 8 | 67 | Marcus Stroman | SP | 243 |
| 9 | 68 | Ranger Suarez | SP | 249 |
| 9 | 69 | Roansy Contreras | SP | 251 |
| 9 | 70 | Jameson Taillon | SP | 264 |
| 9 | 71 | Clayton Kershaw | SP | 266 |
| 9 | 72 | Sonny Gray | SP | 269 |
| 9 | 73 | Jeffrey Springs | SP/RP | 277 |
| 9 | 74 | Trevor Rogers | SP | 279 |
| 9 | 75 | Freddy Peralta | SP | 281 |
| 9 | 76 | Lance McCullers Jr. | SP | 282 |
| 9 | 77 | Jose Quintana | SP | 283 |
| 9 | 78 | Eric Lauer | SP | 293 |
| 9 | 79 | Jose Urquidy | SP | 295 |
| 10 | 80 | Justin Steele | SP | 296 |
| 10 | 81 | Edward Cabrera | SP | 297 |
| 10 | 82 | Eduardo Rodriguez | SP | 298 |
| 10 | 83 | Alex Wood | SP | 301 |
| 10 | 84 | Nick Pivetta | SP | 302 |
| 10 | 85 | Garrett Whitlock | SP/RP | 303 |
| 10 | 86 | German Marquez | SP | 308 |
| 10 | 87 | Kyle Gibson | SP | 310 |
| 10 | 88 | Kenta Maeda | SP | 311 |
| 11 | 89 | Carlos Carrasco | SP | 315 |
| 11 | 90 | Cal Quantrill | SP | 318 |
| 11 | 91 | Adam Wainwright | SP | 321 |
| 11 | 92 | Cole Irvin | SP | 324 |
| 11 | 93 | Michael Wacha | SP | 325 |
| 11 | 94 | Zach Eflin | SP/RP | 326 |
| 11 | 95 | Josiah Gray | SP | 331 |
| 11 | 96 | Aaron Civale | SP | 333 |
| 11 | 97 | Taijuan Walker | SP | 337 |
| 11 | 98 | Ross Stripling | SP/RP | 338 |
| 11 | 99 | Kyle Bradish | SP | 340 |
| 11 | 100 | Aaron Ashby | SP/RP | 341 |
| 11 | 101 | Jose Suarez | SP | 345 |
| 12 | 102 | Steven Matz | SP/RP | 349 |
| 12 | 103 | Ken Waldichuk | SP | 356 |
| 12 | 104 | Noah Syndergaard | SP | 358 |
| 12 | 105 | Cody Morris | SP | 360 |
| 12 | 106 | Mitch Keller | SP | 362 |
| 12 | 107 | Bailey Ober | SP | 366 |
| 12 | 108 | JT Brubaker | SP | 384 |
| 12 | 109 | Corey Kluber | SP | 393 |
| 12 | 110 | Marco Gonzales | SP | 394 |
| 12 | 111 | Paul Blackburn | SP | 396 |
| 12 | 112 | Graham Ashcraft | SP | 423 |
| 12 | 113 | Michael Kopech | SP | 424 |
| 12 | 114 | Jordan Lyles | SP | 429 |
| 12 | 115 | David Peterson | SP/RP | 430 |
| 12 | 116 | Johnny Cueto | SP | 431 |
| 13 | 117 | Drew Smyly | SP | 433 |
| 13 | 118 | Dean Kremer | SP | 434 |
| 13 | 119 | Bailey Falter | SP | 445 |
| 13 | 120 | Grayson Rodriguez | SP | 448 |
| 13 | 121 | Patrick Corbin | SP | 451 |
| 13 | 122 | Rich Hill | SP | 452 |
| 13 | 123 | Zach Plesac | SP | 453 |
| 13 | 124 | Yusei Kikuchi | SP/RP | 456 |
| 13 | 125 | Nick Martinez | SP/RP | 459 |
| 13 | 126 | Kyle Freeland | SP | 462 |
| 13 | 127 | Braxton Garrett | SP | 463 |
| 13 | 128 | MacKenzie Gore | SP | 464 |
| 13 | 129 | James Kaprielian | SP | 466 |
| 13 | 130 | Spencer Turnbull | SP | 468 |
| 13 | 131 | Ryne Nelson | SP | 470 |
| 13 | 132 | Brayan Bello | SP | 473 |
| 13 | 133 | Michael Lorenzen | SP | 475 |
| 13 | 134 | Kyle Muller | SP | 479 |
| 13 | 135 | Madison Bumgarner | SP | 481 |
| 13 | 136 | Mike Clevinger | SP | 482 |
| 13 | 137 | Matt Manning | SP | 484 |
| 13 | 138 | Anthony DeSclafani | SP | 488 |
| 13 | 139 | JP Sears | SP | 489 |
| 13 | 140 | Ryan Yarbrough | SP/RP | 490 |
| 14 | 141 | Daniel Lynch | SP | 492 |
| 14 | 142 | Cade Cavalli | SP | 494 |
| 14 | 143 | Tanner Houck | SP/RP | 495 |
| 14 | 144 | James Paxton | SP | 496 |
| 14 | 145 | Tarik Skubal | SP | 497 |
| 14 | 146 | Domingo German | SP | 498 |
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