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2025 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings: Top 150 - Roto Leagues (January Updates)

Paul Skenes - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

RotoBaller's 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for roto leagues (January updates). Use our tiered SP rankings to win fantasy baseball drafts.

It's an exciting time for baseball! At RotoBaller HQ, we have already released our overall fantasy baseball rankings for roto leagues and will break down each position in the upcoming weeks. Today, we focus on pitchers with our 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. There is a plethora of talent in this year's starting pitcher pool to choose from as we broke it down in our ranks below.

The battle for the top ace in 2025 essentially comes down to Pittsburgh Pirates' electric right-hander Paul Skenes vs. Detroit Tigers southpaw Tarik Skubal. Skubal was the top pitcher last season after posting a 2.39 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, and a 10.7 K:9 over 228 innings. Skenes was incredible over 133 innings, posting a 1.96 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, and 170 whiffs over 133 frames, winning the National League Rookie of the Year award. Find out who RotoBaller has first among the two aces and where other key pitchers, such as Jacob deGrom, Spencer Schwellenbach, Roki Sasaki, and Spencer Strider, are listed in our 2025 pitcher ranks.

The starting pitcher rankings below are specifically designed for traditional roto 5x5 mixed leagues (click here for points leagues, dynasty leagues, and prospect rankings). We also have many other tools and resources to help you win in 2025 drafts with our 2025 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. It includes various fantasy baseball tools and exclusive articles/projections for different formats.

Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball draft tools and resources:

 

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2025 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings (January Update)

Rankings by Nick Mariano. They are for 5x5 category mixed roto leagues and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard. Download our free mobile app with push notification alerts and stay on top of all the MLB news and analysis.

Ranking Tier Player Position
1 1 Tarik Skubal SP
2 1 Paul Skenes SP
3 1 Zack Wheeler SP
4 2 Chris Sale SP
5 2 Logan Gilbert SP
6 2 Garrett Crochet SP
7 2 Blake Snell SP
8 2 Jacob deGrom SP
9 2 Corbin Burnes SP
10 2 George Kirby SP
11 2 Cole Ragans SP
12 3 Yoshinobu Yamamoto SP
13 3 Dylan Cease SP
14 3 Framber Valdez SP
15 3 Gerrit Cole SP
16 3 Michael King SP
17 3 Pablo Lopez SP
18 3 Bailey Ober SP
19 3 Bryce Miller SP
20 3 Shota Imanaga SP
21 4 Roki Sasaki SP
22 4 Joe Ryan SP
23 4 Spencer Schwellenbach SP
24 4 Hunter Greene SP
25 5 Luis Castillo SP
26 5 Tanner Bibee SP
27 5 Max Fried SP
28 5 Hunter Brown SP
29 5 Tyler Glasnow SP
30 5 Sonny Gray SP
31 5 Aaron Nola SP
32 5 Freddy Peralta SP
33 5 Logan Webb SP
34 5 Justin Steele SP
35 6 Zac Gallen SP
36 6 Grayson Rodriguez SP
37 6 Carlos Rodon SP
38 6 Shane McClanahan SP
39 6 Jared Jones SP
40 6 Bryan Woo SP
41 6 Jack Flaherty SP
42 6 Reynaldo Lopez SP
43 7 Spencer Strider SP
44 7 Ryan Pepiot SP
45 7 Robbie Ray SP
46 7 Sandy Alcantara SP
47 7 Kodai Senga SP
48 7 Yusei Kikuchi SP
49 7 Kevin Gausman SP
50 7 Shane Baz SP
51 7 Cristopher Sanchez SP
52 7 Sean Manaea SP
53 7 Zach Eflin SP
54 7 Brandon Pfaadt SP
55 7 Taj Bradley SP
56 7 Bowden Francis SP/RP
57 7 Seth Lugo SP
58 7 Nathan Eovaldi SP
59 8 Nick Pivetta SP
60 8 Tanner Houck SP
61 8 Luis Gil SP
62 8 Drew Rasmussen SP/RP
63 8 Spencer Arrighetti SP
64 8 Yu Darvish SP
65 8 Jeffrey Springs SP
66 8 Ronel Blanco SP
67 8 Nick Lodolo SP
68 8 Walker Buehler SP
69 8 MacKenzie Gore SP
70 8 Clarke Schmidt SP
71 8 Brandon Woodruff SP
72 8 Gavin Williams SP
73 8 Jose Berrios SP
74 8 Jackson Jobe SP
75 8 Ranger Suarez SP
76 9 Kutter Crawford SP
77 9 Michael Wacha SP
78 9 DJ Herz SP
79 9 Jesus Luzardo SP
80 9 Reese Olson SP
81 9 David Festa SP
82 9 Kumar Rocker SP
83 9 Mitch Keller SP
84 9 Nestor Cortes SP
85 9 Merrill Kelly SP
86 9 Matthew Boyd SP
87 9 Cody Bradford SP
88 9 Clay Holmes SP/RP
89 9 Frankie Montas SP
90 9 Reid Detmers SP
91 10 Luis Severino SP
92 10 Bubba Chandler SP
93 10 Erick Fedde SP
94 10 Tobias Myers SP
95 10 Nick Martinez SP/RP
96 10 Tomoyuki Sugano SP
97 10 Bobby Miller SP
98 10 Jameson Taillon SP
99 10 David Peterson SP
100 10 Aaron Civale SP
101 10 Kris Bubic SP
102 10 Grant Holmes SP/RP
103 10 Brayan Bello SP
104 10 Chris Bassitt SP
105 10 Luis L. Ortiz SP
106 10 Ryan Weathers SP
107 10 Kyle Harrison SP
108 10 Brady Singer SP
109 10 Ben Brown SP/RP
110 10 Tyler Holton SP/RP
111 10 Eduardo Rodriguez SP
112 10 Zack Littell SP
113 10 Zebby Matthews SP
114 10 Joey Cantillo SP
115 10 Lucas Giolito SP
116 10 Hayden Birdsong SP
117 10 Max Scherzer SP
118 10 Edward Cabrera SP
119 10 Luis Garcia (SP) SP
120 10 Alex Cobb SP
121 10 Quinn Mathews SP
122 10 Cade Povich SP
123 10 Tyler Mahle SP
124 10 Shane Bieber SP
125 10 Yariel Rodriguez SP
126 11 Ryne Nelson SP
127 11 Justin Verlander SP
128 11 Hayden Wesneski SP/RP
129 11 Alec Marsh SP
130 11 Dean Kremer SP
131 11 Sean Burke SP
132 11 Charlie Morton SP
133 11 Rhett Lowder SP
134 11 Jordan Montgomery SP
135 11 Max Meyer SP
136 11 JP Sears SP
137 11 Tony Gonsolin SP
138 11 Jake Irvin SP
139 11 Casey Mize SP
140 11 Tyler Anderson SP
141 11 Jon Gray SP
142 11 Dustin May SP
143 11 Michael McGreevy SP
144 11 Andrew Abbott SP
145 11 Mitchell Parker SP
146 11 Andrew Painter SP
147 11 Jacob Misiorowski SP
148 11 Jack Leiter SP
149 11 Jose Butto SP/RP
150 11 Andre Pallante SP/RP
151 12 Jared Koenig SP/RP
152 12 Garrett Whitlock SP
153 12 Eury Perez SP
154 12 Triston McKenzie SP
155 12 AJ Smith-Shawver SP
156 12 Jose Quintana SP
157 12 Andrew Heaney SP
158 12 Ben Lively SP
159 12 Tylor Megill SP
160 12 Brandon Sproat SP
161 12 Trevor Williams SP
162 12 Landen Roupp SP
163 12 Michael Lorenzen SP
164 12 Clayton Kershaw SP
165 12 Lance Lynn SP
166 12 Jakob Junis SP/RP
167 12 Albert Suarez SP
168 12 Steven Matz SP/RP
169 12 Miles Mikolas SP
170 12 Osvaldo Bido SP/RP
171 12 Shinnosuke Ogasawara SP
172 12 Paul Blackburn SP


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