Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Week 11 (2025)

June 13, 2025

Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 11 (2025). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top-101 starting pitchers.

We're getting into the thick of June, which means most think we understand what the 2025 season and its pitchers are about by now. While there's a greater supply of statistics in the bank, these arms are a moving target! With the latest FSWA-award-winning Best Baseball Series, let's jump 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. This is written throughout Tuesday, so the table will reflect some games (but not all) and stats cited are likely accurate through Monday.

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. Most of you should have an idea of how many pitchers you roster at a time, and what that means for your streaming prospects. And remember, the top 101 SPs table is about a game within a game, so have some fun and breathe as we work toward a championship!

Starting Pitcher Rankings Analysis for Week 11

-Logan Webb running a 35% sinker rate for more sweepers and changeups since 40% in April makes a difference! The seldom-used four-seamer creeps closer toward a 50% swing-and-miss rate, sitting at 41.5% overall.

It was 21% in 2021, 25% in ‘22, 27% in ‘23, 35% last year, and continues that climb! Hitters are also pulling the heater at a measly 11% clip (it’s never been below 20% for Webb). And the 38% mark on the changeup is easily a career-best number to boot. Please, keep this up!

-Chris Sale worked with lesser velocity on Monday, averaging 95 mph on the heater (96.2 mph average), but he still ran a 32% CSW% with 14 total whiffs for 11 strikeouts across seven dominant frames. He only threw eight sinkers and three changeups beyond the slider-fastball combo, which is a fine recipe. Please keep cooking.

-Cole Ragans getting his start pushed is disconcerting, but the Royals would surely skip him or put him back on the injured list if there was a serious problem, right? Right?!

Looks Iike it’ll be Cameron, Bubic and Lugo for the #Royals series agains the Yankees. Bubic gets another extra day, Ragans is pushed from Wednesday to maybe Friday? No probables are listed yet past Thursday.

— David Lesky (@DBLesky) June 8, 2025

Having Noah Cameron certainly helps them be flexible, thanks to his devil magic. We’re all just staring at the hot potato sabermetric profile (4.84 SIERA, .148 BABIP, 99.1% strand rate), but believers have banked 31 ⅔ IP of elite ratios. (Aaron Judge just took him yard, but no devil magic can contain that man.)

-George Kirby hadn’t looked right in his first three starts back in action, striking out only 10 with a WHIP floating near 2.00 over 13 ⅔ IP. But we’ll accept the 27-year-old needing more time to shake off the rust, considering his lengthy injury. Making up for lost time with an eye-popping 14 strikeouts over seven innings of two-run ball also helps.

Now, the Halos do whiff a lot, and Kirby actually had fewer swings-and-misses (14) than Tyler Anderson (15). But Kirby painted with another 23 called strikes for a 39% CSW% to step back into the circle of trust. He lines up for a home start against the Guardians next.

-Jesus Luzardo has eaten back-to-back meltdowns and ruined his stellar start to 2025, as 20 runs in 5 ⅔ IP have inflated the 4.46 ERA and 1.44 WHIP. It turns out that getting cornrows doesn’t fix your problems.

No one seems convinced that he’s tipping pitches, though we might feel better if there were a clear fix like that. He’s squarely in “prove it” mode for Wednesday’s home tilt against a strong Cubs lineup.

-Shane Smith switched up the approach to blank the Tigers over 5 ⅓ IP. He nearly doubled his curveball usage to a season-high 23.5% as the No. 2 option against left-handed bats after typically leaning on the changeup. It could’ve just been an outlier based on feel for the pitch, but perhaps it’s more than that.

The Houston start on Tuesday was suboptimal, but he limited damage across seven hits by allowing just one extra-base knock. The Astros only scratched one run out over six innings as Smith improves to 3-3 with a 2.37 ERA. And he faces the struggling Rangers next! The Rule 5 Draftee is enjoying a sweet rookie campaign since being plucked from the Brewers this offseason.

-Jacob Misiorowski is getting the call for Thursday’s start after compiling 80 Ks and a 2.13 ERA/1.09 WHIP over 63 ⅓ IP across 13 Triple-A games. His triple-digit velocity from a 6-foot-7 frame overpowers batters, but he can lose the zone as well.

Misiorowski’s latest effort saw him strike out seven over five scoreless innings, with two hits and three walks. That’s good! The start before? Well, he yielded five runs on six walks and three hits, striking out two. We’ll point out that he had a seven-game stretch before that with less than two walks in five of them, logging a 59:19 K:BB since April 22.

🚨Jacob Misiorowski is getting called up!🚨

Last 9 GS: 44.2 IP, 1.81 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 10.8% BB, 33.5% K

The upside warrants adding him anywhere he's available.pic.twitter.com/K6eJiOTW2N

— Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) June 10, 2025

Now, the Cardinals have been a middle-of-the-pack offense lately (97 wRC+ over the last two weeks), but on the year, they have the second-highest average against right-handed pitchers (.265) with the fourth-lowest K% (19.3%).

For the inevitable follow-up about Logan Henderson: He’s thrown a pair of abbreviated outings on the farm, tossing just three innings on June 1 as they manage his workload. Naturally, he’s allowed zero runs with a 10:2 K:BB and four scattered hits in those eight innings.

We’ll see him again, but this is Misiorowski’s turn. (He threw 97 ⅓ IP last year to Henderson’s 81 ⅓ IP.) Both are 23 years old, both are the future of this rotation, and neither is likely to get a clear runway to rest-of-season starts. For now, we operate with the slight chance that Misiorowski does get an extended look here.

-Ben Brown finally saw fit to unleash the kick-change after refining it during bullpen sessions, and we are loving it. Anything that helps him move past the reliever, two-pitch mold and effectively work deeper into games and/or have a secondary to fall back on if the slider feel isn’t there is glorious.

Not only is Ben Brown no longer a two-pitch pitcher, the new pitch he added is the trendiest pitch of the year.

He's still only thrown the kick change 8.3% of the time in his last two outings, but he has a 16:2 K:BB in 13 innings with just two runs allowed in those two games. https://t.co/dbjXehpkh9

— Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) June 9, 2025

He recently held the Tigers to two runs over seven innings, his first time going more than six frames in a start, after blanking the Reds with six innings of one-hit ball. The 25-year-old now sports a 3.13 FIP, 3.22 xFIP, and 3.18 SIERA behind the 5.37 ERA, which I know you’re tired of hearing about, but these advanced stats don’t exist just for kicks.

Knock the derailments like Will Warren all you’d like, but his hot streak turned an insane profit. The same rules apply to Brown. Even if you don’t buy into them becoming steady studs, their arsenal is such that big whiffs and dominant performances show up when they’re all there.

-David Festa had a thrown-off schedule going into his June 5 start at the A’s sketchy pitching mound, which may have had a hand in the injuries to Pablo Lopez and Zebby Matthews. It wasn’t a pretty start (3 ⅔ IP, 8 ER, 3 HR, 2 BB, 6 K), but he is typically better at muting loud contact. I’m giving him another shot in a cushy (and on-schedule) home matchup against the Rangers.

-Bryce Elder made noise with 12 strikeouts over eight road innings at San Francisco, only for the bullpen to blow it. There’s been a lot of that going around Atlanta this year, but I digress. If the right-hander can bring this form into a home outing against the Rockies’ bats, then another double-digit K tally is on the table. We can circle back after that.

-Spencer Turnbull has finally found a role this year, potentially stepping into Toronto’s rotation on Wednesday as he ramps up the workload. Perhaps he’ll tandem with Eric Lauer, who has also done well of late. Will we include him next week?

The 32-year-old posted a 2.65 ERA/1.05 WHIP over 54 ⅓ IP last year in Philadelphia, though he hasn’t dazzled in five minor-league appearances for the Jays (7.13 ERA/1.81 WHIP). We don’t know what they wanted to see, but we’ve seen 90th-percentile Turnbull outproduce many streamers, so let’s see what this year brings.

**I'm hoping that Logan Gilbert is indeed ready by this weekend after a strong rehab outing, but I'll need him to bounce back from that without any soreness or setback throughout the week before I feel confident in things. He's a top-10 arm when healthy!

Logan Gilbert wrapped up his 3rd rehab appearance out here in Tacoma.

5.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 Ks - 72 pitches (43 strikes)

- marked his longest outing since tossing 5.0 innings on April 13 vs. TEX
- retired 14 of last 15 batters in a row
- 4-seamer topped out at 97.5mph

— Kristilyn Hetherington (@khetherington21) June 11, 2025

***A brief note on standout defenses. These stats are largely reflected in pitcher stats thus far, but it can be interesting. Top teams by OAA: Brewers (11), Padres (10), Red Sox (10), Cubs (8), Cardinals (8). Worst teams by OAA: Orioles (-14), Guardians (-14), Phillies (-10), and Angels (-9).

Surely, that’s why Cade Povich is rocking an ugly 5.06 ERA since May 1 on top of a 3.18 FIP and 3.16 SIERA...before another bad day as I finish this up. (Kidding, mostly, sort of.) Let’s just go ahead and blame the Phillies' defense for all of Luzardo’s woes as well?

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