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Updated MLB Starting Pitcher Rankings for Fantasy Baseball: The Top 101 Baller Ranks

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Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 14 (2022). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top 101 starting pitchers.

The All-Star break is bearing down on us and that presents an excellent opportunity to take stock of your team and what is between you and the championship title. Mind your innings limits if applicable and determine how many streaming slots you might need to make up a gap or how many SP slots to transition to powerhouse middle relievers to tamp down your IP pace. I'm here for you with ranks, tiers, trends, and notes with the top-101 in a table with other fun things like earned value via Fangraphs. It's time for another edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks!

This google sheet accompanies the table below and adds relevant 5x5 stats, K%, BB%, BABIP, FIP, xFIP, SIERA, ERA-FIP, and CSW% from the last 30 days. I highly encourage you to click the sheet. And be sure to check out my position-by-position midseason rankings update that dropped earlier this week!

As is tradition, these fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings are geared toward traditional 5x5 leagues. Injured players are left off of this iteration. Let's move along with my top-101 SP for the rest of 2022!

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*The studs are acting like true alphas here, with most of the top-20 SP on the ranks giving up incredible ratios and strikeouts over the past couple of weeks. You don’t need me to reinforce that Shohei Ohtani is cruising towards another MVP award or that Max Scherzer and Brandon Woodruff are back in tip-top shape following their injuries. Studs gonna stud.

-Kevin Gausman is expected to return to the rotation with a July 14 (Thursday) start against Kansas City at home. The bone bruise in his right ankle had given him trouble in pushing off of the pitching rubber but he threw a bullpen session on Tuesday. Let’s hope that elite form that struck out 10 over seven scoreless frames on June 27 is still locked and loaded.

-Max Fried had been on a tear but had control woes on Monday, walking five Mets for a bloated 2.00 WHIP over five innings. The good news is that he can battle without a great feel for location and only surrendered two runs, extending his streak of 2 ER or fewer in a start to five. Even with slightly under a strikeout per inning on the season, Fried’s stellar ratios and healthy dose of wins on a strong Atlanta squad are a fantasy boon.

-Chris Sale threw 53 of his 78 pitches for strikes in a triumphant return to the MLB bump. The southpaw blanked Tampa Bay over five frames but saw Ryan Brasier and Matt Strahm cough up the lead. While Sale teams will hope Boston trades for some bullpen help soon, we must all celebrate a healthy Sale who held his velocity steady throughout the start.

-Robbie Ray has firmly re-entered the circle of trust as a top option. Blessed be that sinking two-seamer that he’s worked into the mix. The 30-year-old has a sparkling 0.91 ERA in over his last six starts, sporting a 46/11 K/BB in those 39 ⅔ IP. He’s enjoyed two Oakland starts within that stretch, as well as a .188 BABIP and 95.9% strand rate, but the revamped arsenal gives him the ability to generate good luck. 

-Frankie Montas threw a 25-pitch bullpen session on July 12 and could step back into Oakland’s rotation this weekend. While we all want him back, it’d be nice if he could avoid a road series at Houston! Tread carefully as Oakland looks to build up his perceived value ahead of the August 2 trade deadline. Considering his fantastic 3.26 ERA has only yielded three wins thus far, we’d take a trade!

-Jose Berrios continues to audition for Disneyland’s newest roller coaster ride! He drew most of us in with a strong three starts to open June (22 IP, 6 ER, 26 K) only to get destroyed in his following two outings (6 ⅔ IP, 14 ER!). He stabilized with a gritty win over Tampa Bay that saw 10 baserunners over five innings on July 1 before two straight quality starts. I did not have 13 strikeouts against Philadelphia on my bingo card for Tuesday night, but we’ll take it! He gets a decent matchup at home against KC next as we hope for second-half stability in 2022.

-Lance Lynn and Michael Kopech are both flashing trouble, with Lynn failing to avoid the middle of the zone and Kopech starting to walk too many hitters. Lynn does have a FIP/xFIP/SIERA all near 4.00 compared to the disastrous 6.97 ERA so exhale a bit when staring down his stats. Kopech’s season stats still look good (3.35 ERA/1.14 WHIP) but a 6.00 ERA and 7.07 FIP in the last 30 days is scary. He was always a regression candidate following a hot start, though the 21/14 K/BB and 2.73 HR/9 in five starts may be rooted in his early June knee injury. He’s in the “prove it” group as of now. Same with MacKenzie Gore.

-Patrick Sandoval is doing his best to mitigate a BABIP near .400 in the last month with his strikeouts and should see better fortune shortly.

-Taijuan Walker just needs to keep that arm strength up down the stretch and we’ll all be happy. Just monitor the velocity and arm slot readings.

-Alex Cobb has all sorts of poor defensive moments behind him to blame but that 4.71 ERA/1.40 WHIP must eventually come towards the 3.14 FIP/2.96 xFIP/3.24 SIERA for us to celebrate. His 66.9% first-strike rate and 62.5% groundball rate are both career-high marks, so maybe we need some more nibbling rather than letting that ball into play. I’m still holding but I know most can’t be patient deep into July.

 

Top-101 Starting Pitchers for Fantasy Baseball

These are rest-of-season fantasy baseball rankings for starting pitchers.

(+/-) Tier Player Rank EV $ PV Trend
0 1 Corbin Burnes 1 $7.60 44.5 44.5 0.0 ▬
0 1 Gerrit Cole 2 $3.60 43.5 43.5 0.0 ▬
0 1 Shane McClanahan 3 $6.90 42 42 0.0 ▬
0 2 Max Scherzer 4 $5.60 40 40 0.0 ▬
0 2 Sandy Alcantara 5 $11.30 40 40 0.0 ▬
0 2 Joe Musgrove 6 $1.90 39.5 39.5 0.0 ▬
0 2 Zack Wheeler 7 $9.30 38 37.5 0.5 ▲
0 2 Justin Verlander 8 $7.90 36 35.5 0.5 ▲
4 2 Shohei Ohtani 9 $11.60 36 30 6.0 ▲
4 2 Carlos Rodon 10 $15.80 35 30 5.0 ▲
1 2 Brandon Woodruff 11 $8.40 33 31 2.0 ▲
-3 3 Max Fried 12 $10.80 32 33 -1.0 ▼
-2 3 Aaron Nola 13 $11.80 30.5 31.5 -1.0 ▼
4 3 Kevin Gausman 14 $6.90 30 25 5.0 ▲
-5 3 Alek Manoah 15 $3.90 30 32.5 -2.5 ▼
1 3 Logan Webb 16 $6.30 27 25.5 1.5 ▲
5 3 Luis Severino 17 $2.50 26.5 20.5 6.0 ▲
-2 3 Dylan Cease 18 $7.20 26.5 26 0.5 ▲
-4 3 Julio Urias 19 $5.30 25 28 -3.0 ▼
18 3 Robbie Ray 20 $9.30 25 14 11.0 ▲
1 4 Chris Sale 21 N/A 24 N/A N/A
-3 4 Shane Bieber 22 $5.10 24 25 -1.0 ▼
0 4 Clayton Kershaw 24 $6.70 22 19.5 2.5 ▲
2 4 Yu Darvish 25 $5.80 20 18 2.0 ▲
0 4 Nestor Cortes 23 $0.30 19.5 20 -0.5 ▼
-1 4 Lucas Giolito 26 $1.40 19.5 19.5 0.0 ▬
1 4 Chris Bassitt 27 $6.10 18 N/A N/A
1 4 Tony Gonsolin 28 $3.60 18 17.5 0.5 ▲
4 4 Cristian Javier 29 $6.60 18 15.5 2.5 ▲
10 4 Spencer Strider 30 $9.70 17.5 13.5 4.0 ▲
1 5 Charlie Morton 31 $8.10 16 16 0.0 ▬
5 5 Kyle Wright 32 $1.90 16 14.5 1.5 ▲
-13 5 Frankie Montas 33 $2.30 15.5 22 -6.5 ▼
-6 5 Shane Baz 34 $0.90 15 18 -3.0 ▼
-1 5 Pablo Lopez 35 $1.00 14.5 15 -0.5 ▼
-5 5 Luis Castillo 36 $7.20 14.5 16 -1.5 ▼
-7 5 Logan Gilbert 37 $1.30 14.5 17 -2.5 ▼
-12 5 Framber Valdez 38 $5.70 14 18 -4.0 ▼
-4 6 Sean Manaea 39 $0.00 14 14.5 -0.5 ▼
-19 6 Lance Lynn 40 $2.80 12.5 21.5 -9.0 ▼
-2 6 Luis Garcia 41 $3.50 10 14 -4.0 ▼
1 6 Jordan Montgomery 42 $2.90 10 10 0.0 ▬
3 6 Jose Berrios 43 -$3.60 10 9.5 0.5 ▲
10 6 Nick Lodolo 44 $1.70 9.5 8.5 1.0 ▲
-1 6 Joe Ryan 45 $1.30 9.5 10 -0.5 ▼
-10 6 Zac Gallen 46 $1.50 9.5 14.5 -5.0 ▼
-5 6 Sonny Gray 47 $3.40 9.5 12.5 -3.0 ▼
1 6 Tyler Mahle 48 $5.70 9.5 9.5 0.0 ▬
3 6 Nick Pivetta 49 $2.80 9 8.5 0.5 ▲
6 6 Tyler Anderson 50 $4.10 9 8 1.0 ▲
10 6 Patrick Sandoval 51 $5.30 8.5 6 2.5 ▲
15 6 Jon Gray 52 $5.70 8.5 4 4.5 ▲
7 6 Jose Urquidy 53 $1.70 8.5 7 1.5 ▲
-13 7 Michael Kopech 54 -$3.70 8 12.5 -4.5 ▼
-5 7 Carlos Carrasco 55 -$2.10 8 9 -1.0 ▼
-5 7 George Kirby 56 $1.00 8 9 -1.0 ▼
-4 7 Aaron Ashby 57 -$1.70 7.5 8.5 -1.0 ▼
16 7 Taijuan Walker 58 $12.50 7.5 3.5 4.0 ▲
12 7 Alex Wood 59 $4.40 7 3.5 3.5 ▲
-12 7 Mike Clevinger 60 $1.90 7 9.5 -2.5 ▼
-14 7 Alex Cobb 61 $1.80 7 9.5 -2.5 ▼
-17 7 Tarik Skubal 62 -$1.00 7 9.5 -2.5 ▼
-6 7 Jameson Taillon 63 $0.00 7 8.5 -1.5 ▼
-6 7 Triston McKenzie 64 $1.60 7 8 -1.0 ▼
-6 7 Adam Wainwright 65 $4.00 7 7.5 -0.5 ▼
-11 8 MacKenzie Gore 66 -$3.90 6.5 8.5 -2.0 ▼
6 8 Blake Snell 67 $4.30 6 3.5 2.5 ▲
0 8 Miles Mikolas 68 $3.20 5.5 3.5 2.0 ▲
8 8 Tyler Wells 69 $5.40 5 3 2.0 ▲
-7 8 Eric Lauer 70 -$3.00 4.5 5.5 -1.0 ▼
-6 8 Josiah Gray 71 $4.10 4 4 0.0 ▬
9 8 Keegan Thompson 72 $8.40 3.5 2 1.5 ▲
N/A 8 Marcus Stroman 73 $1.00 1.5 N/A N/A
-10 8 Noah Syndergaard 74 $2.70 3.5 4.5 -1.0 ▼
-6 8 Martin Perez 75 $2.60 3 3.5 -0.5 ▼
-14 8 Roansy Contreras 76 -$3.30 3 6 -3.0 ▼
-2 9 Paul Blackburn 77 -$0.60 2.5 3 -0.5 ▼
-6 9 Hunter Greene 78 $0.00 2.5 3.5 -1.0 ▼
N/A 9 Reid Detmers 79 -$0.30 2.5 N/A N/A
-10 9 Drew Rasmussen 80 $2.20 2.5 3.5 -1.0 ▼
3 9 Ross Stripling 81 $5.80 2 1.5 0.5 ▲
7 9 Trevor Rogers 82 $2.40 1 1 0.0 ▬
-3 9 Kyle Gibson 83 -$1.40 1 2 -1.0 ▼
-5 10 Cal Quantrill 84 -$0.50 1 2.5 -1.5 ▼
2 10 Corey Kluber 85 $5.90 1 1.5 -0.5 ▼
6 10 Johnny Cueto 86 $1.70 1 1 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Kutter Crawford 87 $2.90 1 N/A N/A
-10 10 Brady Singer 88 $2.90 1 2.5 -1.5 ▼
1 10 Jose Quintana 89 $3.40 1 1 0.0 ▬
11 10 Justin Steele 90 $4.00 1 1 0.0 ▬
-8 10 Graham Ashcraft 91 $1.50 1 1.5 -0.5 ▼
-7 10 Zach Plesac 92 $5.00 1 1.5 -0.5 ▼
-5 10 Chris Flexen 93 $4.30 1 1.5 -0.5 ▼
-3 10 Aaron Civale 94 $3.60 1 1 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Jake Odorizzi 95 $2.80 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Brad Keller 96 $2.60 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Jordan Lyles 97 $5.40 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Spenser Watkins 98 $5.90 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Mitch White 99 $2.00 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Josh Winckowski 100 $3.00 1 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Beau Brieske 101 $5.60 1 N/A N/A


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