Rotographs Ranking March Update – Starting Pitchers

We started our positional rankings updates yesterday with outfield and today we’re hitting the mound.

• Outfielders

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league.  If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. We can also be reached via Twitter:

• Paul Sporer
• Jeff Zimmerman
• Zach Sanders
• Mike Podhorzer
• Dan Schwartz
• Paul Kastava
• Justin Mason

There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.

Brad didn’t get a chance to update his rankings so they’re removed & the Yovani Gallardo ranking for Dan is fixed. 

Key:

• AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
• AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
• SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

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Starting Pitchers – March Update

	Player	Jeff	Zach	Dan	Mike	Paul S	Paul K	Justin	AVG	Adj. AVG	SPLIT
1	Clayton Kershaw	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.0	1.0	0
2	Max Scherzer	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	2.3	2.2	1
3	Chris Sale	3	5	3	3	5	2	3	3.4	3.4	3
4	David Price	4	4	6	5	6	6	6	5.3	5.4	2
5	Jake Arrieta	7	2	5	6	10	5	9	6.3	6.4	8
6	Madison Bumgarner	5	7	4	8	4	13	4	6.4	5.6	9
7	Corey Kluber	6	18	8	4	7	4	12	8.4	7.4	14
8	Matt Harvey	10	8	9	10	3	9	10	8.4	9.2	7
9	Jose Fernandez	9	11	7	11	9	7	8	8.9	8.8	4
10	Jacob deGrom	12	6	12	9	13	12	11	10.7	11.2	7
11	Stephen Strasburg	8	16	11	7	14	11	16	11.9	12.0	9
12	Zack Greinke	14	12	14	16	17	10	5	12.6	13.2	12
13	Felix Hernandez	15	14	10	12	8	14	17	12.9	13.0	9
14	Gerrit Cole	17	10	15	17	11	15	7	13.1	13.6	10
15	Carlos Carrasco	13	21	13	14	12	8	14	13.6	13.2	13
16	Dallas Keuchel	18	9	16	13	16	18	15	15.0	15.6	9
17	Chris Archer	16	19	18	18	15	17	13	16.6	16.8	6
18	Jon Lester	11	17	19	15	21	16	25	17.7	17.6	14
19	Noah Syndergaard	20	13	17	19	20	20	18	18.1	18.8	7
20	Johnny Cueto	19	20	20	21	23	32	19	22.0	20.6	13
21	Cole Hamels	24	26	21	20	18	26	26	23.0	23.4	8
22	Danny Salazar	26	22	24	23	19	30	22	23.7	23.4	11
23	Tyson Ross	23	34	22	27	28	19	21	24.9	24.2	15
24	Sonny Gray	41	15	26	22	25	27	24	25.7	24.8	26
25	Masahiro Tanaka	21	23	28	29	32	21	29	26.1	26.0	11
26	Francisco Liriano	22	31	23	31	30	24	31	27.4	27.8	9
27	Garrett Richards	37	25	31	24	24	31	20	27.4	27.0	17
28	Marcus Stroman	34	24	27	26	27	33	27	28.3	28.0	10
29	Adam Wainwright	32	33	25	36	29	25	28	29.7	29.4	11
30	Michael Wacha	51	28	36	33	22	45	23	34.0	33.0	29
31	Michael Pineda	25	55	32	32	45	28	35	36.0	34.4	30
32	Jose Quintana	33	41	34	39	42	29	37	36.4	36.8	13
33	Carlos Martinez	48	32	45	35	31	34	38	37.6	36.8	17
34	Wei-Yin Chen	35	29	42	50	38	39	33	38.0	37.4	21
35	Jake Odorizzi	39	45	38	43	34	40	30	38.4	38.8	15
36	Taijuan Walker	36	30	39	42	39	51	34	38.7	38.0	21
37	Jeff Samardzija	27	69	35	25	37	43	36	38.9	35.6	44
38	Hisashi Iwakuma	43	27	40	40	48	22	56	39.4	39.6	34
39	Yordano Ventura	28	44	52	41	46	37	43	41.6	42.2	24
40	James Shields	29	57	47	37	44	36	42	41.7	41.2	28
41	Collin McHugh	42	38	41	30	51	49	44	42.1	42.8	21
42	Justin Verlander	44	58	53	28	26	52	39	42.9	43.2	32
43	Jordan Zimmermann	50	56	33	44	33	53	32	43.0	42.6	24
44	Scott Kazmir	40	40	37	49	47	44	45	43.1	43.2	12
45	John Lackey	31	35	44	48	74	35	47	44.9	41.8	43
46	Drew Smyly	45	49	30	54	43	57	41	45.6	46.4	27
47	Raisel Iglesias	38	37	50	52	52	38	53	45.7	46.0	16
48	Lance McCullers	46	42	29	74	55	41	49	48.0	46.6	45
49	Gio Gonzalez	54	61	58	34	40	46	48	48.7	49.2	27
50	Yu Darvish	30	48	46	82	69	23	63	51.6	51.2	59
51	Patrick Corbin	61	36	54	60	41	54	59	52.1	53.6	25
52	Julio Teheran	55	50	55	46	36	72	55	52.7	52.2	36
53	Luis Severino	66	53	61	45	59	56	40	54.3	54.8	26
54	Kyle Hendricks	49	51	43	55	75	50	64	55.3	53.8	32
55	Steven Matz	60	64	49	56	58	55	50	56.0	55.8	15
56	Shelby Miller	69	60	60	51	35	66	52	56.1	57.8	34
57	Andrew Cashner	56	70	74	53	53	42	54	57.4	57.2	32
58	Jason Hammel	57	39	56	63	62	62	65	57.7	60.0	26
59	Clay Buchholz	53	62	62	57	65	47	62	58.3	59.2	18
60	Mike Fiers	59	52	51	75	64	69	51	60.1	59.0	24
61	Aaron Nola	67	63	66	61	56	61	67	63.0	63.6	11
62	Ian Kennedy	47	112	64	38	49	68	66	63.4	58.8	74
63	Carlos Rodon	58	109	67	68	50	48	46	63.7	58.2	63
64	Kevin Gausman	65	73	57	67	66	63	60	64.4	64.2	16
65	Rich Hill	62	66	69	47	91	64	69	66.9	66.0	44
66	Jimmy Nelson	73	89	76	62	60	59	58	68.1	66.0	31
67	Jaime Garcia	99	46	65	64	71	74	73	70.3	69.4	53
68	Mike Leake	74	43	78	89	67	67	74	70.3	72.0	46
69	Joe Ross	102	59	71	78	57	75	57	71.3	68.0	45
70	Anibal Sanchez	63	79	73	83	78	58	72	72.3	73.0	25
71	Anthony DeSclafani	64	114	68	65	81	71	68	75.9	70.6	50
72	Andrew Heaney	101	67	70	93	70	78	61	77.1	75.6	40
73	Rick Porcello	52	122	81	76	72	73	75	78.7	75.4	70
74	Marco Estrada	100	68	75	70	82	84	81	80.0	78.4	32
75	Kenta Maeda	68	95	48	69	61	145	76	80.3	73.8	97
76	Eduardo Rodriguez	88	105	72	88	79	83	71	83.7	82.0	34
77	Phil Hughes	70	81	84	80	110	77	85	83.9	81.4	40
78	Kyle Gibson	117	85	90	66	73	81	84	85.1	82.6	51
79	J.A. Happ	71	96	79	95	97	82	80	85.7	86.4	26
80	Edinson Volquez	89	74	83	81	95	107	87	88.0	87.0	33
81	Alex Wood	91	102	63	94	83	95	91	88.4	90.8	39
82	Wade Miley	82	104	87	73	101	80	92	88.4	88.4	31
83	Nathan Eovaldi	96	108	93	92	86	70	82	89.6	89.8	38
84	Derek Holland	72	128	104	97	92	65	70	89.7	87.0	63
85	Jake Peavy	80	76	80	85	104	121	83	89.9	86.4	45
86	Erasmo Ramirez	114	71	95	77	63	133	78	90.1	87.0	70
87	Jesse Hahn	121	83	97	87	85	85	77	90.7	87.4	44
88	Ervin Santana	93	86	105	79	77	104	93	91.0	91.0	28
89	Trevor Bauer	107	93	106	59	80	119	79	91.9	93.0	60
90	Hyun-Jin Ryu	124	82	59	113	102	76	90	92.3	92.6	65
91	R.A. Dickey	90	84	85	58	114	130	100	94.4	94.6	72
92	Hector Santiago	94	65	88	118	94	108	96	94.7	96.0	53
93	Nate Karns	118	54	82	148	68	110	97	96.7	95.0	94
94	Ubaldo Jimenez	75	117	101	71	144	79	98	97.9	94.0	73
95	Matt Moore	106	101	137	90	54	103	101	98.9	100.2	83
96	Robbie Ray	105	91	91	122	113	90	86	99.7	98.0	36
97	Jerad Eickhoff	126	47	103	84	123	109	109	100.1	105.6	79
98	C.J. Wilson	76	80	107	105	135	97	119	102.7	101.6	59
99	Rubby de la Rosa	110	141	94	72	108	102	94	103.0	101.6	69
100	Jon Niese	125	90	99	114	76	99	131	104.9	105.4	55
101	Chris Tillman	95	107	109	98	121	117	88	105.0	105.2	33
102	Kris Medlen	85	106	145	99	93	120	102	107.1	104.0	60
103	Josh Tomlin	98	87	112	86	152	91	146	110.3	106.8	66
104	Yovani Gallardo	113	126	127	108	99	86	120	111.3	113.2	41
105	Mat Latos	84	167	108	104	106	96	118	111.9	106.4	83
106	Jorge de la Rosa	78	131	141	91	155	87	107	112.9	111.4	77
107	Jeremy Hellickson	77	169	110	103	105	93	136	113.3	109.4	92
108	Jonathan Gray	86	134	149	102	140	89	108	115.4	114.6	63
109	Jose Berrios	112	123	111	169	89	114	99	116.7	111.8	80
110	Bartolo Colon	109	111	89	126	128	112	147	117.4	117.2	58
111	Jesse Chavez	81	132	114	150	122	92	143	119.1	120.6	69
112	CC Sabathia	111	161	152	112	115	94	95	120.0	117.0	67
113	Jeff Locke	115	121	113	107	156	100	130	120.3	117.2	56
114	Danny Duffy	97	120	92	135	146	134	121	120.7	121.4	54
115	Daniel Norris	130	138	147	117	96	116	104	121.1	121.0	51
116	Chris Young	128	75	132	106	116	155	148	122.9	126.0	80
117	Chris Heston	142	88	77	155	150	113	137	123.1	126.0	78
118	Martin Perez	87	163	169	123	120	88	117	123.9	122.2	82
119	Drew Hutchison	157	140	100	147	98	124	116	126.0	125.4	59
120	Vincent Velasquez	144	137	137	121	87	155	114	127.9	130.6	68
121	James Paxton	178	124	115	110	142	138	89	128.0	125.8	89
122	Alex Cobb	140	94	98	168	141	101	155	128.1	127.0	74
123	Zack Wheeler	143	118	96	167	125	105	145	128.4	127.2	71
124	Matthew Wisler	104	173	156	133	100	129	115	130.0	127.4	73
125	Brett Anderson	79	151	102	162	170	60	201	132.1	132.8	141
126	Matt Shoemaker	146	130	86	142	157	127	138	132.3	136.6	71
127	Lucas Giolito	122	177	131	152	88	118	140	132.6	132.6	89
128	Chase Anderson	170	125	143	100	129	137	126	132.9	132.0	70
129	Robbie Erlin	103	136	173	146	148	135	106	135.3	134.2	70
130	Brandon Finnegan	155	119	140	124	138	155	129	137.1	137.2	36
131	John Lamb	92	175	178	131	132	111	144	137.6	138.6	86
132	Chris Bassitt	145	115	184	132	130	155	112	139.0	135.4	72
133	Chad Bettis	129	165	131	141	112	125	179	140.3	138.2	67
134	Kendall Graveman	152	150	135	130	153	140	123	140.4	141.4	30
135	Homer Bailey	120	144	144	159	143	126	149	140.7	141.2	39
136	Tom Koehler	116	98	184	119	158	155	156	140.9	140.8	86
137	Matt Cain	119	189	165	128	171	115	103	141.4	139.6	86
138	Mike Foltynewicz	83	193	135	175	171	132	105	142.0	143.6	110
139	Taylor Jungmann	153	147	184	125	136	139	127	144.4	140.4	59
140	Tyler Duffey	179	110	135	109	147	155	178	144.7	145.0	70
141	Jered Weaver	127	139	184	96	171	143	158	145.4	147.6	88
142	Tyler Skaggs	165	154	140	175	117	150	122	146.1	146.2	58
143	Joe Kelly	150	153	177	127	171	123	125	146.6	145.2	54
144	Tyler Glasnow	266	77	184	154	90	146	111	146.9	137.0	189
145	Jarred Cosart	131	135	184	115	171	149	150	147.9	147.2	69
146	Wily Peralta	138	185	182	134	154	106	139	148.3	149.4	79
147	Henry Owens	208	143	142	175	107	151	113	148.4	144.8	101
148	Matt Garza	135	200	184	120	119	141	141	148.6	144.2	81
149	Miguel Gonzalez	141	116	184	136	159	155	154	149.3	149.0	68
150	Trevor May	266	92	116	175	151	98	153	150.1	138.6	174