2023 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 when 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 2023 Fantrax Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. A big part of any draft kit are the rankings, and we’re starting our staff consensus rankings for 2023 with our Top 100 starting pitcher rankings.

Below you’ll find the consensus rankings that seven of our MLB writers were involved in. The writers involved are Eric Cross, Lauren Auerbach, David Mendelson, Mike Carter, Taylor Tarter, Ryan Kirksey, and Dave Funnell Each writer provided anywhere from 100-150 pitchers so we could create our consensus top-100.

The 2023 pitcher landscape is very exciting and as deep as it’s been in years. However, there isn’t a concrete order at the top and personal preferences here go several different ways as early as #3 overall.

Hopefully, these rankings will help assist you in all your fantasy drafts this season, and make sure to check out our 2023 Draft Kit for more great content leading up to opening day!

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Starting Pitcher Rankings for 2023

Rank	Player	EC	LA	DM	MC	TT	RK	DF
1	Corbin Burnes	1	1	1	3	2	1	1
2	Gerrit Cole	3	2	3	1	1	2	2
3	Sandy Alcantara	5	5	2	4	8	3	4
4	Shohei Ohtani	10	7	9	2	5	4	3
5	Brandon Woodruff	4	6	7	5	7	7	8
6	Aaron Nola	8	3	16	6	9	5	6
7	Justin Verlander	9	8	5	7	12	6	7
8	Shane McClanahan	2	4	6	17	4	13	14
9	Spencer Strider	11	10	4	8	6	10	11
10	Jacob deGrom	6	15	11	12	3	11	10
11	Max Scherzer	7	11	13	10	13	9	5
12	Dylan Cease	12	19	14	9	10	8	9
13	Zack Wheeler	13	14	8	11	23	12	13
14	Shane Bieber	16	12	15	15	15	14	15
15	Carlos Rodon	15	16	20	13	14	15	12
16	Luis Castillo	22	13	10	16	11	22	17
17	Julio Urias	14	9	21	18	18	16	16
18	Kevin Gausman	19	18	17	14	16	18	18
19	Max Fried	18	17	26	19	22	20	20
20	Zac Gallen	17	21	23	21	17	23	23
21	Alek Manoah	20	20	22	22	28	19	19
22	Framber Valdez	26	27	25	20	20	17	21
23	Joe Musgrove	25	25	18	34	19	24	25
24	Yu Darvish	23	22	27	30	24	27	22
25	Cristian Javier	21	23	19	23	47	21	24
26	Triston McKenzie	30	24	12	38	37	26	27
27	Nestor Cortes Jr.	24	29	33	32	29	28	29
28	Tyler Glasnow	28	26	29	29	33	29	30
29	Robbie Ray	38	33	31	33	21	25	26
30	George Kirby	29	30	28	27	27	38	35
31	Logan Webb	37	28	42	26	32	31	32
32	Logan Gilbert	41	34	35	28	30	30	31
33	Lance Lynn	36	32	36	24	26	35	42
34	Clayton Kershaw	34	36	41	37	34	40	37
35	Nick Lodolo	39	41	24	46	35	42	40
36	Lucas Giolito	45	56	32	31	25	37	41
37	Pablo Lopez	47	38	37	35	50	33	28
38	Luis Severino	32	44	46	41	41	32	34
39	Kyle Wright	31	45	43	43	40	34	38
40	Freddy Peralta	33	54	30	40	44	41	33
41	Blake Snell	27	40	52	54	39	39	36
42	Jeffrey Springs	49	47	34	39	42	44	49
43	Chris Bassitt	43	31	48	36	60	47	45
44	Hunter Greene	42	50	45	47	46	55	39
45	Chris Sale	46	48	47	44	38	53	51
46	Charlie Morton	51	49	50	50	36	49	52
47	Jesus Luzardo	35	53	39	60	67	45	46
48	Jordan Montgomery	48	35	55	49	59	50	50
49	Joe Ryan	52	46	53	52	48	56	44
50	Dustin May	44	58	49	53	70	36	48
51	Nathan Eovaldi	58	55	40	42	31	69	74
52	Brady Singer	57	43	62	45	58	54	54
53	Drew Rasmussen	54	37	69	48	61	57	55
54	Jon Gray	60	64	54	51	65	46	47
55	Lance McCullers Jr.	50	63	63	61	52	48	56
56	Tony Gonsolin	40	42	75	62	84	52	43
57	Luis Garcia	55	39	74	75	54	62	64
58	Tyler Mahle	72	60	67	59	53	59	60
59	Sonny Gray	73	57	70	55	57	61	59
60	Alex Cobb	69	52	60	67	45	73	67
61	Reid Detmers	56	51	72	65	68	65	61
62	Frankie Montas	63	61	58	74	78	51	53
63	Trevor Rogers	66	68	51	57	55	74	68
64	Patrick Sandoval	61	67	57	63	49	75	69
65	Grayson Rodriguez	53	72	68	69	56	64	63
66	Aaron Ashby	67	NR	59	76	66	63	62
67	Andrew Heaney	74	79	61	68	76	60	57
68	Justin Steele	65	76	56	58	43	93	87
69	Jose Berrios	83	75	66	71	74	58	58
70	Jack Flaherty	68	62	73	56	93	71	65
71	Edward Cabrera	62	71	80	77	87	72	66
72	Hunter Brown	64	NR	64	89	77	77	81
73	Kodai Senga	59	70	78	82	83	80	77
74	Sean Manaea	98	97	44	70	85	66	71
75	Ranger Suarez	81	69	79	64	63	88	100
76	Jameson Taillon	84	82	65	81	98	76	70
77	Eric Lauer	78	84	81	96	81	68	73
78	Merrill Kelly	71	59	90	83	100	85	76
79	Martin Perez	90	96	85	98	62	67	72
80	Roansy Contreras	89	65	71	93	96	82	79
81	Michael Kopech	80	74	76	80	109	83	78
82	Tyler Anderson	85	77	84	73	116	70	75
83	Taijuan Walker	114	83	77	78	64	NR	86
84	Garrett Whitlock	82	89	89	91	69	84	84
85	Carlos Carrasco	96	78	87	90	51	87	99
86	Eduardo Rodriguez	105	87	82	85	73	78	82
87	Brayan Bello	75	66	86	101	88	92	97
88	Marcus Stroman	94	81	104	79	105	81	80
89	Jose Urquidy	70	88	92	94	120	79	83
90	Miles Mikolas	79	80	94	84	121	86	NR
91	Adam Wainwright	109	105	83	87	72	NR	96
92	Jose Quintana	112	92	NR	NR	79	90	89
93	Mike Clevinger	86	94	96	72	129	89	85
94	Noah Syndergaard	77	106	100	112	82	91	94
95	Cal Quantrill	88	101	93	95	99	94	92
96	Alex Wood	121	104	97	86	71	96	90
97	Josiah Gray	113	107	NR	88	75	NR	NR
98	Bailey Ober	76	95	NR	99	118	NR	NR
99	Aaron Civale	101	93	98	106	94	99	NR
100	Ross Stripling	99	NR	99	113	117	95	93

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