Updated Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - 2023 Roto League Drafts: Triston McKenzie, George Kirby, Patrick Sandoval

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2. Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - Roto Leagues

Draft season is upon us, and we'll be releasing updated rankings constantly! In this article below, you'll find our MLB team's updated 2023 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for roto leagues and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues as of March 17. This is an exciting time of year for MLB and fantasy baseball fans, as the MLB season is getting closer, and a full year of fantasy baseball lies ahead. We're here to ensure you crush your drafts, win your leagues, and earn those bragging rights.

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. Not counting two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Corbin Burnes and New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole were the only two pitchers to crack the top 20 in RotoBaller's top 300 overall rankings. We're here to help sort it out with our 2023 fantasy baseball rankings. Let's see where key starters like Spencer Strider, Triston McKenzie, Tyler Glasnow, George Kirby, Nick Lodolo, Kodai Senga, Patrick Sandoval, Grayson Rodriguez, Zach Eflin, and Hunter Brown rank, among others.

Our fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings are put together by Nick Mariano, Jon Anderson, JB Branson, Connelly Doan, and Ben Rosener. You can also find our other draft rankings for all league formats, continually updated throughout the preseason, in our main fantasy baseball Rankings Wizard tool. Also, make use of all our premium resources with our MLB Draft Kit. Most importantly, our brand new free mobile app is a must-have – download it and configure your notifications. We deliver all the top MLB news, injuries, and fantasy analysis 24x7 with our free push notification alerts!

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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers News and Injuries

Ryan Yarbrough Continues Making Progress
Jacob deGrom To Take The Mound On Sunday
Adrian Morejon Avoids Serious Injury
Shane McClanahan Scoreless Over Two Starts This Spring
Paul Blackburn Will Start Season On Injured List
Tony Gonsolin To Begin Season On Injured List
Lance Lynn To Start For Team USA On Saturday
Sandy Alcantara Showing No Rust This Spring
Garrett Whitlock Sharp In Spring Debut
Yu Darvish May Not Make Opening Day Start
Nathan Eovaldi To Be On Pitch Count Early On
Hayden Wesneski Expected To Win Final Rotation Spot
Kyle Wright To Make Spring Debut Next Week
Cade Cavalli Needs Tommy John Surgery
Zack Wheeler Having Tough Spring
Julio Urias Having Uneven Spring So Far
Aaron Ashby Hoping To Return Mid-May
Cole Hamels Hoping To Return Midseason

Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - Roto Leagues

The staff rankings are for roto leagues and standard 5x5 categories. They are always updated on our fantasy baseball rankings dashboard. Nick Mariano was named the #1 overall most accurate industry expert ranker for the 2018 season, and Ariel Cohen was #1 overall for the 2019 season.

Last updated on Friday 3/17 at 8:00 am ET:

SP Tier	SP Ranking	Player Name	Pos	Overall
1	1	Shohei Ohtani	DH/SP	7
1	2	Gerrit Cole	SP	13
1	3	Corbin Burnes	SP	15
2	4	Spencer Strider	SP	24
2	5	Jacob deGrom	SP	25
2	6	Sandy Alcantara	SP	26
2	7	Aaron Nola	SP	27
2	8	Brandon Woodruff	SP	29
2	9	Shane McClanahan	SP	31
2	10	Justin Verlander	SP	32
2	11	Max Scherzer	SP	34
3	12	Zack Wheeler	SP	41
3	13	Shane Bieber	SP	42
3	14	Dylan Cease	SP	45
3	15	Kevin Gausman	SP	48
3	16	Luis Castillo	SP	49
3	17	Julio Urias	SP	50
3	18	Carlos Rodon	SP	52
3	19	Max Fried	SP	53
3	20	Cristian Javier	SP/RP	56
4	21	Alek Manoah	SP	64
4	22	Yu Darvish	SP	69
4	23	Zac Gallen	SP	70
4	24	Framber Valdez	SP	73
5	25	Robbie Ray	SP	90
5	26	Triston McKenzie	SP	92
5	27	Logan Webb	SP	93
5	28	Joe Musgrove	SP	95
5	29	George Kirby	SP	100
5	30	Hunter Greene	SP	103
5	31	Blake Snell	SP	106
5	32	Clayton Kershaw	SP	107
5	33	Nestor Cortes Jr.	SP/RP	109
5	34	Luis Severino	SP	110
6	35	Lance Lynn	SP	120
6	36	Logan Gilbert	SP	121
6	37	Nick Lodolo	SP	131
6	38	Chris Bassitt	SP	132
6	39	Tyler Glasnow	SP	134
6	40	Kyle Wright	SP	135
6	41	Pablo Lopez	SP	137
6	42	Jordan Montgomery	SP	138
7	43	Freddy Peralta	SP	139
7	44	Joe Ryan	SP	143
7	45	Charlie Morton	SP	147
7	46	Luis Garcia (SP)	SP	149
7	47	Lucas Giolito	SP	150
7	48	Dustin May	SP	152
7	49	Chris Sale	SP	155
7	50	Jeffrey Springs	SP/RP	164
7	51	Drew Rasmussen	SP	167
7	52	Jesus Luzardo	SP	174
7	53	Andrew Heaney	SP	176
7	54	Brady Singer	SP	181
7	55	Kodai Senga	SP	184
7	56	Nathan Eovaldi	SP	187
7	57	Patrick Sandoval	SP	190
7	58	Alex Cobb	SP	191
8	59	Jon Gray	SP	196
8	60	Sonny Gray	SP	198
8	61	Grayson Rodriguez	SP	204
8	62	Reid Detmers	SP	206
8	63	Jose Berrios	SP	216
8	64	Tyler Mahle	SP	220
8	65	Tony Gonsolin	SP	221
8	66	Lance McCullers Jr.	SP	224
8	67	Merrill Kelly	SP	228
8	68	Miles Mikolas	SP	230
8	69	Jack Flaherty	SP	233
8	70	Tyler Anderson	SP	239
8	71	Marcus Stroman	SP	240
8	72	Carlos Carrasco	SP	243
8	73	Jameson Taillon	SP	245
8	74	Edward Cabrera	SP	249
8	75	Jose Urquidy	SP	254
9	76	Eduardo Rodriguez	SP	258
9	77	Justin Steele	SP	260
9	78	Zach Eflin	SP/RP	262
9	79	Trevor Rogers	SP	263
9	80	Sean Manaea	SP	267
9	81	Garrett Whitlock	SP/RP	268
9	82	Steven Matz	SP/RP	271
9	83	Kenta Maeda	SP	272
9	84	Eric Lauer	SP	274
9	85	Martin Perez	SP	280
9	86	Jose Quintana	SP	284
9	87	Aaron Civale	SP	286
9	88	Alex Wood	SP	288
9	89	Ross Stripling	SP/RP	294
9	90	Roansy Contreras	SP	295
9	91	Aaron Ashby	SP/RP	297
9	92	Michael Kopech	SP	307
9	93	Ranger Suarez	SP	308
10	94	Adam Wainwright	SP	320
10	95	David Peterson	SP/RP	324
10	96	Ken Waldichuk	SP	328
10	97	Taijuan Walker	SP	330
10	98	Cal Quantrill	SP	332
10	99	Noah Syndergaard	SP	343
10	100	Tanner Houck	SP/RP	344
10	101	Bailey Ober	SP	351
10	102	Cole Irvin	SP	353
10	103	Jose Suarez	SP	359
10	104	Michael Wacha	SP	364
10	105	Spencer Turnbull	SP	369
10	106	Clarke Schmidt	SP/RP	370
10	107	MacKenzie Gore	SP	373
10	108	Brayan Bello	SP	374
10	109	Tarik Skubal	SP	380
10	110	Domingo German	SP	384
11	111	Tylor Megill	SP/RP	388
11	112	Nick Pivetta	SP	390
11	113	Mike Soroka	SP	392
11	114	Josiah Gray	SP	398
11	115	Kyle Gibson	SP	399
11	116	Cody Morris	SP	400
11	117	Bailey Falter	SP	406
11	118	Jalen Beeks	SP/RP	413
11	119	Kyle Bradish	SP	415
11	120	Hayden Wesneski	SP	419
11	121	Drey Jameson	SP	425
12	122	Corey Kluber	SP	430
12	123	German Marquez	SP	431
12	124	Frankie Montas	SP	434
12	125	Mitch Keller	SP	438
12	126	Matt Brash	SP/RP	442
12	127	Ryne Nelson	SP	444
12	128	Brandon Pfaadt	SP	445
12	129	Paul Blackburn	SP	447
12	130	Nick Martinez	SP/RP	448
12	131	Johnny Cueto	SP	449
12	132	Drew Smyly	SP	453
12	133	James Paxton	SP	456
12	134	Marco Gonzales	SP	460
12	135	Braxton Garrett	SP	463
12	136	Shintaro Fujinami	SP	468
12	137	JT Brubaker	SP	469
12	138	Matt Manning	SP	477
12	139	Michael Lorenzen	SP	479
12	140	Andrew Painter	SP	481
12	141	Mike Clevinger	SP	492
13	142	JP Sears	SP	505
13	143	Yusei Kikuchi	SP/RP	512
13	144	Yonny Chirinos	SP/RP	515
13	145	Anthony DeSclafani	SP	520
13	146	Keegan Thompson	SP/RP	532
13	147	Jakob Junis	SP/RP	535
13	148	Daniel Lynch	SP	538
13	149	Dean Kremer	SP	545
13	150	Wade Miley	SP	547
13	151	Graham Ashcraft	SP	553
13	152	Danny Duffy	SP	557
13	153	Kyle Muller	SP	558
14	154	Kyle Hendricks	SP	566
14	155	Joey Wentz	SP	570
14	156	James Kaprielian	SP	573
14	157	Jordan Hicks	SP/RP	575
14	158	Zach Plesac	SP	578
14	159	Zack Greinke	SP	580
14	160	Matt Bush	SP/RP	582
14	161	Elieser Hernandez	SP/RP	587
14	162	John Means	SP	592
14	163	Joey Lucchesi	SP	593
14	164	Taj Bradley	SP	594
14	165	Hyun Jin Ryu	SP	601
14	166	Kyle Harrison	SP	602
14	167	Rich Hill	SP	604
14	168	Gavin Stone	SP	608
14	169	Sixto Sanchez	SP	612
14	170	Zach Davies	SP	615
14	171	Mason Englert	P	618
14	172	Ian Anderson	SP	621
15	173	Chris Flexen	SP/RP	622
15	174	Bobby Miller	SP	631
15	175	Ryan Pepiot	SP	632
15	176	Bryce Elder	SP	633
15	177	JT Chargois	SP/RP	644
15	178	Kyle Freeland	SP	645
15	179	Joe Ross	SP	648
15	180	Drew Rucinski	SP	651
15	181	Nate Pearson	SP	655
15	182	Jake Odorizzi	SP	658
16	183	Kutter Crawford	SP/RP	660
16	184	Ricky Tiedemann	SP	665
16	185	Shawn Dubin	SP/RP	672
16	186	Mitch White	SP/RP	673
16	187	Chris Paddack	SP	675
16	188	Austin Gomber	SP/RP	678
16	189	Ryan Yarbrough	SP/RP	679
16	190	Adrian Houser	SP	681
16	191	Shawn Armstrong	SP/RP	683
16	192	Eury Perez	SP	692
16	193	Luis Gil	SP	695
16	194	Hogan Harris	SP	697
16	195	Jhony Brito	SP/RP	701
16	196	Matthew Liberatore	SP	702
16	197	Johan Oviedo	SP/RP	704
16	198	Louie Varland	SP	706
16	199	Stephen Strasburg	SP	709
16	200	Vince Velasquez	SP/RP	710
16	201	Luis Patino	SP	711
16	202	Adrian Martinez	SP/RP	717
16	203	Reiver Sanmartin	SP/RP	719
16	204	Walker Buehler	SP	721
16	205	Patrick Corbin	SP	722
16	206	Dane Dunning	SP	725
16	207	Tanner Bibee	SP	726
16	208	Chase Silseth	SP	732
16	209	Xzavion Curry	SP/RP	734
16	210	Madison Bumgarner	SP	736
16	211	Reese Olson	SP	738
16	212	Daniel Espino	SP	741
16	213	Quinn Priester	SP	742
16	214	Jordan Lyles	SP	745
16	215	Adrian Sampson	SP	746

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