2022 Consensus Top-100 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings

It’s Fantasy Baseball draft season! While some of us degenerates were drafting back in October and November, now is the time where fantasy baseball drafts really kick into high gear. We here at FantraxHQ have been pumping out a ton of great content all offseason long and are diving head-first into our 2022 Fantrax Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. A big part of any draft kit is rankings, and we’re starting our staff consensus rankings for 2022 with our fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings.

Below you’ll find the consensus rankings that nine of our MLB writers were involved in. The writers involved are Eric Cross, Chris Clegg, Lauren Auerbach, David Mendelson, Mike Carter, Mick Ciallela, Justin Dunbar, Justin Johnson, and Michael Govier. Each writer provided anywhere from 100-150 pitchers so we could create our consensus top-100.

The 2022 pitcher landscape is very exciting. You see a discernable top tier of seven names and tiers two and three are nearly as exciting this year. There was a copious amount of breakout talent in 2021 with plenty of young exciting arms. Capitalizing on pitching is more important now than ever before, so hopefully, these rankings can help guide you in the right direction for all of your drafts. Enjoy!

2022 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings

Meet the Analysts:

• EC = Eric Cross
• CC = Chris Clegg
• LA = Lauren Aurbach
• MC1 = Mike Carter
• MC2 = Mick Ciallela
• JD = Justin Dunbar
• DM = David Mendelson
• JJ – Justin Johnson
• MG = Michael Govier

Rank	Player	EC	CC	LA	MC1	MC2	JD	DM	JJ	MG
1	Corbin Burnes	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	1	1
2	Gerrit Cole	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	2
3	Max Scherzer	3	3	4	3	4	4	1	2	6
4	Walker Buehler	4	5	3	6	3	5	7	5	3
5	Brandon Woodruff	5	7	5	5	6	6	5	6	4
6	Zack Wheeler	6	4	7	4	5	8	10	4	8
7	Shane Bieber	7	6	12	7	7	7	6	7	16
8	Sandy Alcantara	8	10	10	13	8	9	9	8	7
9	Jacob deGrom	9	9	6	8	10	3	4	11	25
10	Aaron Nola	12	8	8	10	12	10	8	14	12
11	Julio Urias	10	12	11	23	13	18	12	9	9
12	Freddy Peralta	11	17	15	16	16	14	15	13	17
13	Lucas Giolito	14	21	14	22	11	13	11	23	5
14	Logan Webb	13	13	13	12	17	11	16	19	27
15	Chris Sale	15	15	17	25	9	16	28	10	10
16	Lance Lynn	21	24	9	15	19	17	19	22	18
17	Robbie Ray	20	19	24	18	14	15	31	12	14
18	Joe Musgrove	16	14	23	19	25	24	24	15	11
19	Kevin Gausman	26	18	22	20	18	12	26	16	23
20	Jack Flaherty	22	11	25	24	21	19	13	27	24
21	Max Fried	23	23	20	17	20	26	20	17	21
22	Luis Castillo	24	26	16	11	24	25	17	29	26
23	Shohei Ohtani	30	28	31	9	15	33	33	20	13
24	Jose Berrios	27	16	34	21	22	20	34	24	15
25	Dylan Cease	18	20	28	31	23	32	18	18	35
26	Trevor Rogers	17	33	19	44	30	27	23	31	19
27	Alek Manoah	19	27	29	29	27	28	22	33	32
28	Frankie Montas	28	25	27	36	26	23	37	26	22
29	Charlie Morton	25	32	18	14	28	21	39	44	42
30	Blake Snell	31	30	37	34	31	29	14	21	39
31	Yu Darvish	33	29	36	33	29	22	30	25	34
32	Justin Verlander	38	22	35	30	33	40	29	30	20
33	Shane McClanahan	29	40	21	49	35	31	25	35	30
34	Pablo Lopez	37	42	33	32	38	34	27	34	28
35	Zac Gallen	44	37	30	35	41	30	21	28	41
36	Nathan Eovaldi	40	35	40	27	34	38	44	36	43
37	Carlos Rodon	32	36	32	26	36	42	57	43	38
38	Chris Bassitt	34	41	26	51	37	39	45	37	37
39	Tyler Mahle	41	46	41	39	32	37	36	46	46
40	Framber Valdez	50	39	44	28	39	58	38	38	36
41	Eduardo Rodriguez	48	38	47	63	42	45	40	32	29
42	Ian Anderson	36	52	53	50	40	59	41	39	31
43	Logan Gilbert	35	70	48	74	43	47	32	40	40
44	Shane Baz	39	50	43	83	46	51	42	42	33
45	Luis Garcia	45	34	38	75	44	48	55	48	44
46	Sean Manaea	51	31	55	37	49	36	51	60	73
47	Marcus Stroman	57	59	52	42	45	54	48	52	45
48	Hyun-Jin Ryu	49	48	42	52	52	61	56	49	55
49	Clayton Kershaw	42	43	58	38	54	41	64	59	74
50	Sonny Gray	54	64	39	43	50	53	54	50	66
51	Michael Kopech	61	45	45	47	69	50	49	41	68
52	Ranger Suarez	60	51	59	45	48	62	53	45	61
53	Mike Clevinger	59	54	69	41	63	43	52	56	48
54	Jordan Montgomery	46	44	46	58	64	56	58	65	65
55	Lance McCullers Jr.	43	63	54	53	47	35	83	80	51
56	Tarik Skubal	56	49	49	71	56	49	71	61	47
57	Alex Wood	58	47	61	46	61	57	65	53	94
58	Anthony DeSclafani	63	73	64	68	55	52	50	51	71
59	Joe Ryan	64	67	60	NR	57	70	46	47	82
60	Tanner Houck	71	85	57	NR	60	71	35	64	57
61	Luis Severino	47	53	68	78	53	44	78	57	85
62	Patrick Sandoval	53	62	62	73	65	63	59	74	52
63	John Means	55	58	51	70	66	67	60	67	70
64	German Marquez	72	71	76	40	71	68	47	66	56
65	Jose Urquidy	66	60	56	59	58	60	75	70	79
66	Aaron Ashby	68	78	63	65	76	77	43	55	81
67	Noah Syndergaard	52	55	65	99	59	46	103	58	76
68	Adam Wainwright	81	61	78	61	51	55	72	54	101
69	Jon Gray	62	57	70	86	70	66	61	72	77
70	Triston McKenzie	70	87	86	60	62	69	68	71	50
71	Aaron Civale	74	79	80	64	75	79	62	62	58
72	Steven Matz	83	56	72	67	68	65	77	90	75
73	Jesus Luzardo	65	74	85	76	82	78	66	79	53
74	Casey Mize	69	80	79	69	74	99	74	73	60
75	Huascar Ynoa	85	95	50	88	67	72	86	85	64
76	Alex Cobb	79	65	87	54	77	64	82	109	87
77	Kyle Hendricks	87	109	71	80	79	81	63	76	59
78	Carlos Carrasco	78	75	73	55	88	76	87	96	90
79	Cal Quantrill	73	122	81	79	72	80	NR	63	80
80	Andrew Heaney	98	72	NR	91	86	74	NR	68	NR
81	Josiah Gray	67	114	66	57	80	100	79	86	100
82	Drew Rasmussen	99	76	84	NR	NR	91	NR	75	84
83	Tylor Megill	80	92	82	NR	95	75	NR	81	103
84	Bailey Ober	84	77	83	105	78	111	90	69	99
85	Cristian Javier	86	NR	97	NR	94	89	69	123	63
86	Adbert Alzolay	107	105	77	NR	92	90	NR	89	62
87	Stephen Strasburg	77	89	113	48	91	116	84	91	95
88	Kyle Gibson	97	83	94	62	NR	98	81	99	102
89	Brady Singer	104	103	101	81	NR	103	73	84	72
90	Zack Greinke	90	104	91	NR	87	87	97	82	86
91	Eric Lauer	82	66	93	NR	90	84	88	101	121
92	Luis Patino	95	112	75	NR	83	88	96	88	88
93	Marco Gonzales	88	86	111	NR	81	96	NR	93	83
94	Tony Gonsolin	75	101	88	111	98	123	91	83	54
95	Corey Kluber	76	96	112	56	99	92	94	107	93
96	Jameson Taillon	89	98	67	103	84	83	99	94	108
97	Zach Plesac	94	120	92	109	85	97	76	112	67
98	Yusei Kikuchi	100	82	89	98	96	106	98	92	112
99	Elieser Hernandez	103	90	74	NR	93	121	NR	106	126
100	Sixto Sanchez	92	121	96	102	97	118	89	78	140

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