The Rubber: Top 75 SP Rest-of-Season Rankings
I present to you my top 75 starting pitcher rankings for the remainder of 2013. I’d trade anyone for any player listed above them. I present them without comment as we go along because I’m balls deep in football material trying to get our Football Draft Guide ready to launch. Check that out; it’s coming very, very soon. But next week I’ll follow up on the piece and discuss some specific names.
If you have any comment on the rankings or if you disagree, I’d love to be distracted from work today and discuss things with you in the comment section below. Enjoy!
Tier 1
1 Clayton Kershaw 100% owned
2 Adam Wainwright 100% owned
3 Yu Darvish 100% owned
4 Stephen Strasburg 100% owned
5 Felix Hernandez 100% owned
6 Matt Harvey 100% owned
7 Max Scherzer 100% owned
8 Chris Sale 100% owned
9 Cliff Lee 100% owned
10 Madison Bumgarner 100% owned
Tier 2
11 Justin Verlander 100% owned
12 Cole Hamels 100% owned
13 Hisashi Iwakuma 99.6% owned
14 CC Sabathia 100% owned
15 David Price 100% owned
16 Anibal Sanchez 100% owned
17 Jordan Zimmermann 100% owned
18 Mat Latos 100% owned
19 Doug Fister 96.2% owned
20 Mike Minor 100% owned
Tier 3
21 Homer Bailey 100% owned
22 Shelby Miller 100% owned
23 James Shields 100% owned
24 Zack Greinke 100% owned
25 Matt Garza 100% owned
26 Jeff Samardzija 93.7% owned
27 Bartolo Colon 100% owned
28 A.J. Burnett 100% owned
29 Matt Cain 99.5% owned
30 Derek Holland 100% owned
31 Patrick Corbin 100% owned
Tier 4
32 Hiroki Kuroda 100% owned
33 Gio Gonzalez 100% owned
34 Lance Lynn 100% owned
35 John Lackey 100% owned
36 Jake Peavy 64.8% owned
37 Jered Weaver 100% owned
38 Kris Medlen 95.5% owned
39 Jose Fernandez 100% owned
40 Justin Masterson 100% owned
41 Julio Teheran 100% owned
42 Francisco Liriano 100% owned
Tier 5
43 Ervin Santana 74.9% owned
44 Hyun-Jin Ryu 100% owned
45 Matt Moore 100% owned
46 R.A. Dickey 94.9% owned
47 Corey Kluber 16.3% owned
48 Dillon Gee 6.3% owned
49 Ricky Nolasco 63.1% owned
50 Edwin Jackson 19.2% owned
51 Tim Lincecum 93.6% owned
52 Jeremy Hellickson 93.9% owned
53 A.J. Griffin 44.2% owned
Tier 6
54 Brandon Beachy 29.7% owned
55 Jarrod Parker 65.1% owned
56 Tim Hudson 70.4% owned
57 Mike Leake 98.2% owned
58 C.J. Wilson 100% owned
59 Kyle Kendrick 24.2% owned
60 Rick Porcello 6.6% owned
61 Roberto Hernandez 1.1% owned
62 Ubaldo Jimenez 16.9% owned
63 Yovani Gallardo 60.8% owned
64 Jeremy Hefner 60.3% owned
65 Jeff Locke 100% owned
Tier 7
66 Kyle Lohse 62.7% owned
67 Wade Miley 44.5% owned
68 Andy Pettitte 15% owned
69 Tommy Milone 53.7% owned
70 Andrew Cashner 9.6% owned
71 Phil Hughes 20% owned
72 Bud Norris 5.3% owned
73 Ryan Dempster 44.7% owned
74 Jon Lester 93.1% owned
75 Travis Wood 97% owned
The Author
10 Comments
What are your thoughts on Iwakuma ROW?
Still like him quite a bit. Think his struggles lately have just been the result mainly of a run of bad homer luck. His control has remained excellent, and though his K% has dipped as we’ve gone along this year, his velocity is actually up recently. So I think he’ll be just fine.
I’m curious why Parker dropped 10 spots from your rankings in early June considering he’s pitched so much better over the past couple of months. Concerns? Thanks!
I was a big Parker fan in the preseason, and I liked what he showed in May, so that’s why I had him higher in my early June ranks. But I don’t like what he’s done since then. I know the surface numbers look good, but his strikeout rate has been well below average, and he’s had all the recent success because of a .175 BABIP since June. That won’t keep up. And if his skills don’t rebound before the luck runs out, he’s got some rough starts ahead of him.
Travis Woods keeps being ranked fairly low by every expert. He has a 2.79 ERA and 1.04 WHIP half way through the season, What am I missing? Should I try and make a trade for the likes of Kluber or Gee?
Wood has the highest xFIP and highest SIERA out of that trio. He has the worst strikeout rate, he has the worst walk rate. In other words, he’s shown the lowest level of skill but has produced the best results. The reason is that he’s been very lucky. He has a .227 BABIP, which is the lowest mark in the league and completely unsustainable. He also has a 5.8% HR/FB ratio which is very low for any pitcher, but especially low for one who has bad strikeout and walk skills and who plays in a homer friendly home park. He’s also an extreme fly ball pitcher. He has the 5th highest fly ball rate among pitchers. so when that home run luck turns, it’s going to hit him especially hard.
Thanks~!! He is currently has an ESPN PR of #18 and I will get him on the trading block immediately for some batting. I appreciate it~!!
Where would a healthy Alex Cobb fall in your rankings….
Back end of tier 3 or top end of tier 4
Surprised to see that Clay Buchholz was done for the year, since 13-1 apparently wasn’t good enough to make the top 75 for the second half