Top 100 Starting Pitcher Rankings for Redraft Leagues: Week Two

Hey everyone! My name is Jake Devereaux, some of you may know me from the “Five Tool Fantasy Baseball Podcast” that I do with Eric Cross and Jesse Roche here at Fantrax. I will be taking over the top 100 starting pitcher rankings here at Fantrax HQ by doing both redraft and dynasty rankings during the season.

These rankings reflect a lot of change vs what you saw here last week. That’s because those rankings were from Nathan Dokken who used to write this piece. The new rankings are with yours truly. In the future, I will be releasing these every Monday during the season.

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Top-100 Starting Pitcher Rankings for Redraft Leagues

To make these rankings I relied on a whole lot of information. I looked at all of the basic stats you would consider when ranking pitchers like ERA, WHIP, strikeout rate, walk rate, and home run to fly-ball rate. I also dove into expected stats many of which can be found at Baseball Savant or on Alex Chamberlain’s excellent pitching leaderboard. In addition, I utilized a great stat created by Nick Pollack and Alex Fast at Pitcher List called CSW (called strikes + whiffs). Lastly, I relied on swinging-strike rate. All of these statistics when taken together give me a great idea of how a pitcher is performing and how they will perform in the future.

I also looked at all of the weapons available to each pitcher, paying specific attention to how many above-average offerings each individual has and whether or not their primary offering is above average. I looked at a combination of zone rate and called strike rate to try and figure out which pitchers have the best command. Finally, I looked at playing time and durability, something that when I do these ranks for a full season will have a much heavier weight.

These ranks contain only pitchers who are currently starting in the major leagues which means prospects that have not made their debut are not listed here. They will be accounted for in my dynasty ranks if they make the cut. Pitchers that have debuted or were just called up like Luis Patiño will not be added to the list until they have been put into the starting rotation. These are intended to help you in redraft leagues right now and to provide context for trade value. I expect my rankings to shift as pitchers improve or decline.

In a typical week, I will continue to include risers and fallers as well as new additions to the list, but in the interest of getting you to the list faster I will skip that for this week, or else we may be here all day. If you have any questions about the list don’t hesitate to hit me up on Twitter @devjake. Thanks for reading!

All players that are injured or on COVID-19 IL are not included in this list.

RNK	Name	PREV. RNK
1	Jacob deGrom	2
2	Gerrit Cole	1
3	Max Scherzer	3
4	Shane Bieber	4
5	Mike Clevinger	5
6	Jack Flaherty	6
7	Walker Buehler	10
8	Luis Castillo	7
9	Stephen Strasburg	11
10	Patrick Corbin	12
11	Sonny Gray	22
12	Brandon Woodruff	32
13	Aaron Nola	14
14	Lucas Giolito	20
15	Clayton Kershaw	8
16	Chris Paddack	16
17	Lance Lynn	30
18	Trevor Bauer	26
19	Max Fried	21
20	Zac Gallen	34
21	Blake Snell	18
22	Yu Darvish	15
23	Tyler Glasnow	29
24	Frankie Montas	13
25	Dinelson Lamet	39
26	Carlos Carrasco	24
27	Zack Greinke	33
28	Kenta Maeda	35
29	Jose Berrios	17
30	Andrew Heaney	58
31	Zach Plesac	NR
32	Aaron Civale	83
33	Kyle Hendricks	28
34	German Marquez	47
35	Lance McCullers Jr.	25
36	Dylan Bundy	55
37	Jesus Luzardo	69
38	Ross Stripling	41
39	Julio Urias	48
40	Hyun Jin Ryu	19
41	Madison Bumgarner	36
42	Mike Minor	50
43	Zack Wheeler	23
44	Charlie Morton	9
45	Griffin Canning	67
46	Matthew Boyd	37
47	Joe Musgrove	68
48	Dustin May	54
49	Nate Pearson	NR
50	Chris Bassitt	65
51	Nathan Eovaldi	75
52	Adrian Houser	77
53	Ryan Yarborough	76
54	Caleb Smith	43
55	Garrett Richards	56
56	Yonny Chirinos	90
57	Robbie Ray	44
58	Yusei Kikuchi	NR
59	Spencer Turnbull	73
60	Marco Gonzales	NR
61	Masahiro Tanaka	70
62	Dallas Keuchel	66
63	Josh Lindblom	81
64	Jon Gray	85
65	Jordan Montgomery	61
66	Steven Matz	59
67	Tyler Chatwood	NR
68	Matt Shoemaker	72
69	Logan Webb	NR
70	Kevin Gausman	NR
71	Joshua James	78
72	James Paxton	42
73	Luke Weaver	31
74	Sean Manaea	79
75	Christian Javier	NR
76	Anthony DeSclafani	NR
77	Kyle Gibson	62
78	Jon Lester	NR
79	Dylan Cease	94
80	Joey Lucchesi	63
81	Johnny Cueto	60
82	Brady Singer	82
83	Corbin Burnes	51
84	Tyler Mahle	NR
85	Kris Bubic	NR
86	Randy Dobnak	NR
87	Tanner Roark	87
88	Pablo Lopez	89
89	David Peterson	NR
90	Adam Wainwright	NR
91	Merrill Kelly	NR
92	Michael Wacha	NR
93	Asher Wojciechowski	98
94	Jordan Lyles	88
95	Kyle Freeland	NR
96	John Means	74
97	Dakota Hudson	86
98	Touki Toussaint	NR
99	Martin Perez	NR
100	Kendall Graveman	NR

Fell of List: Mike Soroka, Carlos Martinez, Jake Odorizzi, Mitch Keller, Corey Kluber, Marcus Stroman, Rich Hill, Shohei Ohtani, Austin Voth, Jose Urquidy, Alex Wood, Carlos Rondon, Freddy Peralta, Wade Miley, Mike Foltynewicz, Miles Mikolas, Jeff Samardzija, Homer Bailey, Reynaldo Lopez, Mike Fiers

New to List: Zach Plesac, Nate Pearson, Yusei Kikuchi, Marco Gonzales, Tyler Chatwood, Logan Webb, Kevin Gausman, Cristian Javier, Anthony DeSclafani, Jon Lester, Tyler Mahle, Kris Bubic, Randy Dobnak, David Peterson, Adam Wainwright, Merrill Kelly, Michael Wacha, Kyle Freeland, Touki Toussaint, Martín Perez, Kendall Graveman

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