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

Reid Detmers - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 16 (2022). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top 101 starting pitchers.

With the midseason break behind us and August almost here, fantasy players can just see the season's end creeping on the horizon. Don't you dare hit cruise control because there's still plenty of action left in the race. Mind your categories, flex those strengths and shore up the weaknesses. Ranks in a vacuum are a nice starting point but only you know exactly what you need. And so it's time for another edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks!

I've got a family member in the hospital so time is short, but I've put together my usual top-101 with some fun leaderboards over the last month of play (entering Tuesday, July 26) for you to digest.

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!

Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources:

 

Starting Pitcher Rankings Analysis

Strikeout Rate Leaders - Last 30 Days

Rank Player K%
1 Shohei Ohtani 44.0%
2 Cristian Javier 40.5%
3 Max Scherzer 40.2%
4 Spencer Strider 39.6%
5 Blake Snell 37.5%
6 Shane McClanahan 37.0%
7 Kevin Gausman 34.5%
8 Frankie Montas 34.2%
9 Brandon Woodruff 33.9%
10 Robbie Ray 33.9%

Other notables: Gerrit Cole is right there at 11th and will be just fine, but there’s little denying he’s been slightly outdone by the others in Tier One on the table. Josiah Gray is 14th at 32% while Reid Detmers sits at 22nd with a 29.2% clip. We have to take Detmers seriously.

Brady Singer (26th, 28.7%), Kutter Crawford (27th, 28.2%), and Braxton Garrett (32nd, 27%) are other lower-rostered options bringing the heat.

But Nick, Blake Snell still has tons of walks, so how about the K-BB% leaderboard?

 

K-BB% Leaders - Last 30 Days

Rank Player K-BB%
1 Max Scherzer 38.1%
2 Shohei Ohtani 37.0%
3 Shane McClanahan 33.7%
4 Spencer Strider 32.1%
5 Cristian Javier 28.6%
6 Kevin Gausman 28.5%
7 Robbie Ray 27.8%
8 Yu Darvish 27.8%
9 Alex Wood 27.2%
10 Justin Verlander 26.9%

As you can see, most of the aces remain on the table while the more volatile options dropped a bit. I know Robbie Ray just got hit around but it’s great to see his revamped arsenal here with strong control.

But strikeouts and walks aren’t everything, so let’s rope in some ratios:

 

FIP Leaders - Last 30 Days

Rank Player FIP
1 Shane McClanahan 1.38
2 Brandon Woodruff 1.45
3 Spencer Strider 1.48
4 Shohei Ohtani 1.49
5 Max Scherzer 1.55
6 Justin Verlander 1.72
7 Carlos Rodon 1.99
8 Kutter Crawford 2.10
9 Sandy Alcantara 2.13
10 Reid Detmers 2.13

Reeeeeiiiiiddddd. He and Crawford really have pitched quite well. Congrats to those who bought low on Woodruff. Try to guess who is 11th here.

It’s Jose Quintana with a 2.14 FIP! Spenser Watkins (15th, 2.33 FIP) and Keegan Thompson (20th, 2.63 FIP) are others who might surprise you.

Fun (or not so fun) fact: Patrick Sandoval has a pristine 2.49 FIP but a bloated 7.11 ERA in this window. As you might guess, his .491 BABIP paces the pack. Here’s the 10-highest BABIPs within the last 30:

 

BABIP “Leaders” (Highest…Worst) - Last 30 Days

Rank Player BABIP
1 Patrick Sandoval 0.491
2 Nick Lodolo 0.488
3 Nathan Eovaldi 0.480
4 Graham Ashcraft 0.420
5 Kevin Gausman 0.404
6 Nick Pivetta 0.390
7 Mitch Keller 0.388
8 Keegan Thompson 0.381
9 Jose Berrios 0.378
10 Carlos Carrasco 0.378

I’m seeing an awful lot of fastballs that got rightfully punished, but even this is a bridge too far regarding poor luck for most of them. Eovaldi has quite the small-sample size warning label as well.

I remain bullish on Lodolo moving forward but I acknowledge that Great American Ballpark is a tough place to acclimate to major-league hitting. Gausman’s aforementioned stellar strikeout rate is helping him dance around the extra baserunners and if you can pry him at a discount then go for it.

And finally, here is my updated Top-101 table!

 

Top-101 Starting Pitchers for Fantasy Baseball

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

EV = Earned Value via Fangraphs (Last 30 Days), $ = My projected dollar value (think auction), PV = Previous $ Value

(+/-) Tier Player Rank EV $ PV Trend
0 1 Corbin Burnes 1 $6.1 44.5 44.5 0.0 ▬
1 1 Shane McClanahan 2 $9.9 43.0 42.0 1.0 ▲
1 2 Max Scherzer 3 $10.4 42.0 40.0 2.0 ▲
1 2 Sandy Alcantara 4 $11.2 42.0 40.0 2.0 ▲
-3 2 Gerrit Cole 5 $4.8 42.0 43.5 -1.5 ▼
2 2 Justin Verlander 6 $10.0 39.0 36.0 3.0 ▲
0 2 Zack Wheeler 7 $4.4 38.5 38.0 0.5 ▲
-2 2 Joe Musgrove 8 $2.6 38.0 39.5 -1.5 ▼
0 2 Shohei Ohtani 9 $8.7 37.0 36.0 1.0 ▲
0 2 Carlos Rodon 10 $9.7 35.5 35.0 0.5 ▲
0 2 Brandon Woodruff 11 $10.6 35.5 33.0 2.5 ▲
0 3 Max Fried 12 $8.7 31.5 32.0 -0.5 ▼
0 3 Aaron Nola 13 $6.7 31.0 30.5 0.5 ▲
1 3 Alek Manoah 14 $3.4 30.0 30.0 0.0 ▬
-1 3 Kevin Gausman 15 $3.7 30.0 30.0 0.0 ▬
0 3 Logan Webb 16 $4.0 28.0 27.0 1.0 ▲
0 3 Dylan Cease 18 $7.9 28.0 26.5 1.5 ▲
7 3 Clayton Kershaw 17 $6.2 27.0 22.0 5.0 ▲
0 3 Julio Urias 19 $4.7 26.0 25.0 1.0 ▲
0 3 Robbie Ray 20 $3.1 25.0 25.0 0.0 ▬
1 4 Shane Bieber 21 $2.9 23.5 24.0 -0.5 ▼
3 4 Yu Darvish 22 $6.2 23.0 20.0 3.0 ▲
0 4 Nestor Cortes 23 $4.2 21.5 19.5 2.0 ▲
4 4 Tony Gonsolin 24 $3.5 18.0 18.0 0.0 ▬
2 4 Chris Bassitt 25 $3.7 18.0 18.0 0.0 ▬
10 4 Luis Castillo 26 $7.7 18.0 14.5 3.5 ▲
2 5 Cristian Javier 27 $1.1 17.5 18.0 -0.5 ▼
2 5 Spencer Strider 28 $9.8 17.5 17.5 0.0 ▬
2 5 Charlie Morton 29 $3.0 16.0 16.0 0.0 ▬
2 5 Kyle Wright 30 $1.5 16.0 16.0 0.0 ▬
2 5 Frankie Montas 31 $0.7 15.5 15.5 0.0 ▬
-6 5 Lucas Giolito 32 $6.1 15.0 19.5 -4.5 ▼
5 5 Framber Valdez 33 $7.1 14.5 14.0 0.5 ▲
1 5 Pablo Lopez 34 -$0.2 14.5 14.5 0.0 ▬
17 6 Jon Gray 35 $5.5 14.0 8.5 5.5 ▲
5 6 Luis Garcia 36 $2.1 14.0 10.0 4.0 ▲
N/A 6 Nathan Eovaldi 37 -$0.8 13.0 N/A N/A
-1 6 Logan Gilbert 38 $3.2 13.0 14.5 -1.5 ▼
3 6 Jordan Montgomery 39 $3.6 13.0 10.0 3.0 ▲
N/A 6 Andrew Heaney 40 N/A 13.0 N/A N/A
23 6 Triston McKenzie 41 $7.3 12.0 7.0 5.0 ▲
4 6 Zac Gallen 42 $1.8 12.0 9.5 2.5 ▲
-4 6 Sean Manaea 43 -$0.3 11.5 14.0 -2.5 ▼
1 6 Joe Ryan 44 $3.4 11.0 9.5 1.5 ▲
-2 6 Jose Berrios 45 $1.8 11.0 10.0 1.0 ▲
-6 6 Lance Lynn 46 $1.9 11.0 12.5 -1.5 ▼
3 6 Tyler Anderson 47 $5.4 10.5 9.0 1.5 ▲
-4 7 Nick Lodolo 48 $2.4 9.0 9.5 -0.5 ▼
-2 7 Sonny Gray 49 $2.9 9.0 9.5 -0.5 ▼
-2 7 Tyler Mahle 50 -$0.6 9.0 9.5 -0.5 ▼
7 7 Taijuan Walker 51 $6.4 8.5 7.5 1.0 ▲
7 7 Alex Wood 52 $5.8 8.5 7.0 1.5 ▲
7 7 Mike Clevinger 53 $3.0 8.5 7.0 1.5 ▲
-3 7 Patrick Sandoval 54 $4.6 8.5 8.5 0.0 ▬
-2 7 Jose Urquidy 55 $3.6 8.5 8.5 0.0 ▬
12 7 Miles Mikolas 56 $0.2 8.0 5.5 2.5 ▲
-3 7 Michael Kopech 57 -$2.5 7.5 8.0 -0.5 ▼
-3 7 Carlos Carrasco 58 $3.4 7.5 8.0 -0.5 ▼
-3 7 George Kirby 59 -$0.2 7.5 8.0 -0.5 ▼
-3 7 Aaron Ashby 60 $1.1 7.5 7.5 0.0 ▬
1 7 Tarik Skubal 61 $3.4 7.0 7.0 0.0 ▬
3 7 Adam Wainwright 62 $0.1 7.0 7.0 0.0 ▬
4 7 Blake Snell 63 $3.4 6.0 6.0 0.0 ▬
11 7 Martin Perez 64 $1.4 6.0 3.0 3.0 ▲
-4 8 Alex Cobb 65 $6.7 6.0 7.0 -1.0 ▼
-17 8 Nick Pivetta 66 -$1.1 6.0 9.0 -3.0 ▼
12 8 Reid Detmers 67 $5.2 6.0 2.5 3.5 ▲
-5 8 Jameson Taillon 68 -$0.4 6.0 7.0 -1.0 ▼
N/A 8 Braxton Garrett 69 $4.9 5.5 N/A N/A
0 8 Eric Lauer 70 $1.7 4.5 4.5 0.0 ▬
0 8 Josiah Gray 71 -$0.6 4.0 4.0 0.0 ▬
0 8 Keegan Thompson 72 $5.1 4.0 3.5 0.5 ▲
0 8 Marcus Stroman 73 $4.0 4.0 1.5 2.5 ▲
-5 9 Tyler Wells 74 $3.2 4.0 5.0 -1.0 ▼
-1 9 Noah Syndergaard 75 $2.7 3.5 3.5 0.0 ▬
4 9 Drew Rasmussen 76 $4.1 2.5 2.5 0.0 ▬
1 9 Hunter Greene 77 $1.5 2.5 2.5 0.0 ▬
3 9 Ross Stripling 78 $3.7 2.0 2.0 0.0 ▬
3 9 Trevor Rogers 79 $2.9 2.0 1.0 1.0 ▲
N/A 10 Merrill Kelly 80 $7.3 1.0 N/A N/A
N/A 10 Jeffrey Springs 81 -$0.4 1.0 N/A N/A
4 10 Johnny Cueto 82 $2.2 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
4 10 Kutter Crawford 83 $6.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
5 10 Jose Quintana 84 $7.3 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-8 10 Paul Blackburn 85 -$0.9 1.0 2.5 -1.5 ▼
-1 10 Corey Kluber 86 $6.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Ranger Suarez 87 $4.0 1.0 N/A N/A
-5 10 Kyle Gibson 88 -$2.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-1 10 Brady Singer 89 $6.1 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-6 10 Cal Quantrill 90 $1.2 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Madison Bumgarner 91 $4.3 1.0 N/A N/A
-2 10 Justin Steele 92 $2.5 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-1 10 Zach Plesac 93 $4.7 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-1 10 Chris Flexen 94 $3.3 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Mitch Keller 95 $4.7 1.0 N/A N/A
-1 10 Jake Odorizzi 96 $1.6 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-1 10 Brad Keller 97 $2.3 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
N/A 10 Jakob Junis 98 $0.1 1.0 N/A N/A
-1 10 Spenser Watkins 99 $5.7 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-1 10 Mitch White 100 $1.4 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬
-10 10 Graham Ashcraft 101 $0.9 1.0 1.0 0.0 ▬


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