Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Week 10 (2025)

June 5, 2025

Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 10 (2025). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top-101 starting pitchers.

We're cranking up the temperatures, which can mean more meltdowns on the mound as we try to navigate the torchies and save our ratios. We just saw several horrible outings from big players, so let's make sense of the landscape with the latest FSWA-award-winning Best Baseball Series. It's time to dive into this week's edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks!

As usual, readers will find my SP thoughts with tiered ranks (the tiers matter, the ranks within are cool but don't blow a gasket), complemented by a rest-of-season auction value ($), their Previous Week's Value (PV), the trend between the two, and a (+/-) column denoting the rank shift compared to last week. There is also a prospect table at the end via our star scout, Eric Cross.

As always, these ranks are geared toward traditional 5x5 roto leagues, and I typically exclude most injured SPs unless they're about to come back. There are some big names on the cusp of returning, and Tuesday's action also saw quite a few arms get clipped by injury. With the severity to be determined for most, we proceed on and take things one day at a time with my top 101 SPs!

Starting Pitcher Rankings Analysis for Week 10

-Kris Bubic is cruising with a 1.43 ERA/1.00 WHIP and 79 strikeouts in 75 ⅓ IP thus far, holding a robust 2.45 FIP and 3.35 SIERA behind that. And while he only had 30 ⅓ IP in the majors last year, all out of the bullpen, he did make 10 “starts” in the minors (only six went three or more innings, four exceeded four frames, and only one reached five).

So, add another 35 ⅔ IP from the minors, giving him 66 IP in all last year. We’re hoping he can reach 150 IP safely, but current rotation depth means they may space things out or taper off down the stretch. Cole Ragans’ return likely pushes Noah Cameron, who has been wildly successful, out unless they move to a six-man rotation (or push Michael Lorenzen).

There were concerns about his velocity declining, as his four-seamer reached a season-low of 91.8 mph on May 8. He blew that out of the water by averaging 93.4 mph in his next outing on May 13, which has led to 92.8, 92.7, and 93 flat in the following three tilts.

They’re 31-29 and 1.5 games out of the Wild Card, so there aren’t competitive worries here. The 27-year-old Bubic still has an arbitration year in 2026 and hits free agency after that.

Other SP Inning Workloads to Track (2025 IP above '24 total):

-Jacob deGrom (+59 IP)

-Robbie Ray (+40)

-Drew Rasmussen (+30)

-Kodai Senga (+57)

-Matthew Boyd (+22)

-Tyler Mahle (+54)

-Spencer Schwellenbach had his fastball usage noted before, but that rose another level in his latest 11-strikeout turn on May 31. He went with a career-high 53.5% heaters after previously topping out at 43.7% back in September 2024.

And it worked! This is two straight 11-K games now, with the first one originally setting a fastball velocity high at 97.5 mph, but that was followed by an average just over 98 and touching triple digits. Is he finding the hot sauce as the weather warms?

Spencer Schwellenbach averages 96.8 on his four seam fastball this year.

Today, he averaged 98.1 on his four seam fastball.

He also had increases on his cutter and sinker. Cutter averaged 94.0 today he averaged 96.4. Sinker averages 95.4 Today, he averaged 96.4

— Ryker Gerstenschlager (@Gerstensc3Ryker) June 1, 2025

-Will Warren didn’t have it against the Dodgers’ alpha offense in their house. He got punished for it, but it’s still one day. Even with that in tow, Warren’s 2.33 FIP over the last 30 days remains eighth-best among 129 pitchers (min. 20 IP), with a top-three K% (33.9%) anchoring the value.

-Jesus Luzardo got bashed for 12 runs in 3 ⅓ IP by the Brewers to balloon his ERA from 2.15 to 3.58, drawing the ire of many fantasy managers. But he’d struck out 10 in back-to-back starts prior to that, and many of you are still playing with house money given his lowly ADP.

-Taj Bradley struck out 10 Astros over seven innings of shutout ball on Sunday, which gives him three consecutive quality starts with more whiffs after a sad four-start stretch in late April removed him from our radars.

He began the year with 21 Ks in 17 IP, then only had 9 Ks over the next 23 ⅔ IP, and now has 34 Ks in his latest 30 IP. This last outing also saw his top average fastball velocity at 97 mph. Things are looking up for Bradley, who needs the whiffs to make fantasy hay.

-Andrew Abbott stood tall in a rematch with the Cubs at Wrigley Field, holding them to one hit and one walk over seven sharp innings on May 30. While he’d held them to one run over 5 ⅔ IP back on May 24, he had to dance around six hits and a pair of free passes.

Outside of a Coors shellacking, Abbott has yet to give up more than one run in any start. The insane strand rate is unlikely to run pure all season long, but we must point out that a 4.61 FIP in April fell to 2.47 in May. And while he’s rarely been put in tough spots, Abbott has struck out 6-of-11 batters faced in high-leverage spots, per FanGraphs.

-Edward Cabrera has greatly enjoyed May as he wrapped up the month with 5 ⅔ IP of scoreless action against the Giants. He had to mosey around six hits and three walks, but got the job done.

This writer remains skeptical of the 27-year-old, but there’s no denying that he had a 28:8 K:BB in May (20:11 in April) with more soft contact and a 2.86 FIP/3.33 xFIP. He’s another arm that’s looking sharp with a lower arm angle, averaging 36.8 degrees on the changeup versus a range of 43-47 degrees in his first four seasons.

Edward Cabrera has lowered his arm slot, switched to a sinker, and is in the midst of the best five-game command stretch of his career. pic.twitter.com/nTxwuB1eui

— Eno Sarris (@enosarris) June 3, 2025

-Sawyer Gipson-Long is finally back after requiring Tommy John surgery and a hip procedure last year. Like me, some of you should remember him delivering a clutch four starts in September 2023 (2.70 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 26 Ks in 20 IP).

He’s supplied a 2.20 ERA/0.98 WHIP with a strikeout per inning over 16 ⅓ IP through a five-appearance rehab window to take Jackson Jobe’s (elbow) rotation slot. Reese Olson should be back soon, but if SGL looks like his track record, then Keider Montero should be the odd man out. Let’s see where this takes us!

-Mick Abel is assuming Aaron Nola’s spot in the rotation while he rehabs a sprained ankle. Taijuan Walker had been the plan, but Abel’s dazzling MLB debut, Walker’s iffy outing against the Brewers, and a thinning bullpen surely made the organization think twice.

Now, please remember that Abel debuted against the Pirates. He did not show any fear, registering a 72.7% first-strike rate when he’s never cracked 50% at any professional level before.

This has also meant he’s never had a walk rate below 10% anywhere. But he struck out nine Pirates with zero walks! But their team wRC+ is 81 over the last month, “besting” only the Rockies, while the Blue Jays’ 127 wRC+ in that span trails only the Dodgers (133).

How Abel attacks them will be a great marker for us to hinge our futures on. And then yes, he may lose the job again when Nola returns. Andrew Painter will enter the picture come mid-July as well. Stay on your toes!

-Ryne Nelson looks to have a long-term rotation slot, despite Eduardo Rodriguez’s activation, with Corbin Burnes (elbow) visiting Dr. Neal ElAttrache. Nothing good comes from those visits. Nelson has produced a 3.43 ERA/1.00 WHIP despite the yo-yo role between the rotation and bullpen, though we must be careful. He’s still extremely fastball-heavy (nearly 60%) and riding a .237 BABIP. Much of that comes from the fastball carrying a .188 average against versus a .263 xBA.

His whiff, hard-hit, and barrel rates are all nearly identical to last year, as are his xBA, xSLG, and xwOBA. Few expect a 1.00 WHIP, so there’s plenty of room for profit amid regression, but awareness is key. Perhaps we get another run like July 2-September 3 of last year: 75 IP, 5-0 W/L, 75:14 K:BB, 2.76 ERA, 3.02 FIP, 0.97 WHIP.

That run coincided with his easing back on the curveball and cutter to ramp up his fastball usage from ~50% to 60%. It would feel much nicer for a starter to have a healthy handful of secondary pitches, or at least one he’s comfortable throwing over 20% of the time!

**A few late thoughts here on Tuesday night:

-Hunter Greene’s groin injury may have cropped up again on his final two pitches.

Terry Francona says they're going to get an MRI on Hunter Greene tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Took Hunter out of the game because the groin was bothering him. #Reds @FOX19

— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) June 4, 2025

-Pablo Lopez exited with a trainer after one warmup pitch before the sixth inning. Not good! I'd assume an IL stint. Let's see if they line David Festa up for the slot if so.

-George Kirby took a comebacker to the face and didn’t return, but the inning was over, and he was at 95 pitches. (He also just didn’t pitch that well…again.)

-Logan Gilbert could return next Tuesday, so we’ll throw him back on.

-Max Meyer was completely off before the IL news arose. No trust, no consistency, no fastball.

-Spencer Strider needs more time, and we simply have to be patient.

-Sandy Alcantara did better, but only four strikeouts against the Rockies isn’t inspiring.

-Eury Perez should enjoy a cushy welcome-back matchup against the Pirates next week.

-Brandon Woodruff also got tagged by a comebacker in what should've been his last rehab tuneup. Initial X-rays were negative, but we await Wednesday's follow-up testing.

More on Brandon Woodruff's Triple-A exit: He was struck on the right elbow by a 108.2 mph comebacker with two outs in the second inning. He will return to Milwaukee for x-rays and additional tests on Wednesday, so we may not know more about his status until then.

— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) June 4, 2025

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