2023 Starting Pitcher Rankings – October by Paul Sporer October 11, 2022 Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports It’s time for the first rankings of 2023, but given how fresh we are off the regular season, I decided to go list only. I need a bit more time to put some commentary together and I know that this first run will change so much (even from now to the 2nd run) that spending 6-8 hours writing comments on everyone might be in vain at this juncture — and I’m not just talking about team changes, because those are inevitable part of offseason rankings. I look forward to the discussions in the comments and please feel free to make your case if you think someone absolutely deserves Top 150 consideration so they can be considered in the 2nd run that will come with commentary (due out in a month or so). I did some loose tier breaks indicated by the red bars. Edit 1 (Oct. 11th, 3:40 PM CT) — Cubs fans, I’m so sorry your guys all got knocked off the list somehow. Marcus Stroman, Justin Steele, Keegan Thompson, Hayden Wesneski, Drew Smyly, Kyle Hendricks, Adrian Sampson 샘슨 were all listed. Truly dumbfounded by one team getting merked somehow between yesterday & today. See, this is why I waited for commentary! Kenta Maeda was also a great inclusion who will be on the next list. Edit 2 (Oct. 11th, 10:40 AM CT) — MacKenzie Gore and David Peterson were misses. They will be on the November list! Top 150 SPs for 2023 RK PITCHER TM 1 Corbin Burnes MIL 2 Shane McClanahan TBR 3 Gerrit Cole NYY 4 Brandon Woodruff MIL 5 Justin Verlander HOU 6 Sandy Alcantara MIA 7 Carlos Rodón SFG 8 Zack Wheeler PHI 9 Aaron Nola PHI 10 Shohei Ohtani LAA 11 Julio Urías LAD 12 Alek Manoah TOR 13 Luis Castillo SEA 14 Jacob deGrom NYM 15 Zac Gallen ARI 16 Kevin Gausman TOR 17 Max Scherzer NYM 18 Joe Musgrove SDP 19 Yu Darvish SDP 20 Spencer Strider ATL 21 Dylan Cease CWS 22 Shane Bieber CLE 23 Max Fried ATL 24 Framber Valdez HOU 25 Robbie Ray SEA 26 Triston McKenzie CLE 27 Cristian Javier HOU 28 Clayton Kershaw LAD 29 Lance Lynn CWS 30 Logan Webb SFG 31 Logan Gilbert SEA 32 Luis Severino NYY 33 Tyler Glasnow TBR 34 Hunter Greene CIN 35 Kyle Wright ATL 36 Freddy Peralta MIL 37 Chris Sale BOS 38 Pablo López MIA 39 Nestor Cortes NYY 40 Chris Bassitt NYM 41 Reid Detmers LAA 42 Patrick Sandoval LAA 43 Nick Lodolo CIN 44 Blake Snell SDP 45 Lucas Giolito CWS 46 Brady Singer KCR 47 Trevor Rogers MIA 48 Drew Rasmussen TBR 49 Joe Ryan MIN 50 Bailey Ober MIN 51 Charlie Morton ATL 52 George Kirby SEA 53 Luis Garcia HOU 54 Tony Gonsolin LAD 55 José Urquidy HOU 56 Sonny Gray MIN 57 José Berríos TOR 58 Jeffrey Springs TBR 59 Jameson Taillon NYY 60 Jordan Montgomery STL 61 Frankie Montas NYY 62 Jesús Luzardo MIA 63 Dustin May LAD 64 Lance McCullers Jr. HOU 65 Tarik Skubal DET 66 José Suarez LAA 67 Andrew Heaney LAD 68 Jack Flaherty STL 69 Edward Cabrera MIA 70 Michael Kopech CWS 71 Nathan Eovaldi BOS 72 Tyler Mahle MIN 73 Ranger Suárez PHI 74 Miles Mikolas STL 75 Michael Wacha BOS 76 Eduardo Rodriguez DET 77 Carlos Carrasco NYM 78 Jon Gray TEX 79 Merrill Kelly 켈리 ARI 80 Tyler Anderson LAD 81 Eric Lauer MIL 82 Cal Quantrill CLE 83 Alex Cobb SFG 84 Alex Wood SFG 85 Corey Kluber TBR 86 Mike Clevinger SDP 87 Aaron Ashby MIL 88 Roansy Contreras PIT 89 Drey Jameson ARI 90 Tyler Wells BAL 91 Bailey Falter PHI 92 Kyle Bradish BAL 93 Hunter Brown HOU 94 Matt Manning DET 95 Braxton Garrett MIA 96 Grayson Rodriguez BAL 97 Bryce Elder ATL 98 Noah Syndergaard PHI 99 Taijuan Walker NYM 100 Austin Voth BAL 101 Mitch Keller PIT 102 Michael Lorenzen LAA 103 Aaron Civale CLE 104 Josiah Gray WAS 105 Cody Morris CLE 106 Johan Oviedo PIT 107 Luis Ortiz PIT 108 JP Sears OAK 109 Ken Waldichuk OAK 110 DL Hall BAL 111 Bobby Miller LAD 112 Mike Soroka ATL 113 Tylor Megill NYM 114 Sean Manaea SDP 115 Sixto Sánchez MIA 116 Chase Silseth LAA 117 Dean Kremer BAL 118 Brayan Bello BOS 119 Ryne Nelson ARI 120 Joey Wentz DET 121 Tanner Houck BOS 122 Ross Stripling TOR 123 Martín Pérez TEX 124 José Quintana STL 125 Paul Blackburn OAK 126 Germán Márquez COL 127 Graham Ashcraft CIN 128 Domingo Germán NYY 129 Spencer Turnbull DET 130 Nick Pivetta BOS 131 James Kaprielian OAK 132 Jakob Junis SFG 133 Kyle Gibson PHI 134 Cole Irvin OAK 135 Glenn Otto TEX 136 Matthew Liberatore STL 137 Josh Winder MIN 138 Johnny Cueto CWS 139 Daniel Lynch KCR 140 Zach Plesac CLE 141 Dylan Bundy MIN 142 Davis Martin CWS 143 Dane Dunning TEX 144 James Paxton BOS 145 Adrian Morejon SDP 146 Marco Gonzales SEA 147 Anthony DeSclafani SFG 148 Adrián Martínez OAK 149 Kris Bubic KCR 150 Patrick Corbin WAS