Starting Pitcher Fantasy Baseball Rankings and Tiers - Roto Leagues (January Updates)

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Hey, RotoBallers! We have published all our hitting positions already. It's now time to focus on pitchers. Pitchers and catchers will report in a few weeks, and Spring Training games will follow suit shortly after. We are here to help you build that league-winning staff with our MLB team's early 2024 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. Most leagues require you to start nine pitchers altogether between starters and relievers. There is a plethora of pitching talent in 2024, but only a few aces stand out. Spencer Strider, Gerrit Cole, and Corbin Burnes are the only pitchers ranked in tier one.

Seattle Mariners right-hander George Kirby was a highly touted prospect and delivered for fantasy managers in 2023. The 25-year-old owned a 3.35 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, and a 172: 19 K: BB across 190 2/3 innings. Kirby will take the next step and become an ace for most fantasy teams, as RotoBaller currently ranks him as the eighth-best pitcher. Detroit Tigers southpaw Tarik Skubal underwent flexor tendon surgery in August 2022 and made his 2023 season debut in July. The 27-year-old was impressive in his return from injury, posting a 2.80 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, and a 102: 14 K: BB across 80 1/3 innings last season. Find out where RotoBaller has Skubal and other key starters such as Eury Perez, Grayson Rodriguez, Justin Steele, Joe Ryan, Michael King, Paul Skenes, Andrew Abbott, Bryce Miller, and Mitch Keller rank for 2024 fantasy baseball drafts.

The starting pitcher rankings below are specifically designed for traditional 5x5 Roto 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 2024. We've worked hard to keep track of all off-season moves to get you covered for your fantasy baseball drafts with our 2024 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. It includes various fantasy baseball tools and exclusive articles/projections for different formats. We're also writing fresh daily articles analyzing this year's fantasy baseball sleepers, breakouts, and so much more. Win more in 2024!

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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher News and Injuries

Michael Lorenzen Being Eyed By The Orioles
Domingo German Receiving Interest From Blue Jays, Orioles
Angels, Matt Moore Agree To One-Year Deal
Noah Syndergaard, Michael Lorenzen Hold Workours For Teams
James Paxton Finalized One-Year Deal With Dodgers
Phillies Agree To Terms With Kolby Allard
Triston McKenzie Feeling Good As Spring Training Approaches
Brayan Bello To Emphasize His Slider More In 2024
Alex Cobb To Begin Throwing Program
Late-Summer Return Could Be Possible For Lance McCullers Jr.
John Brebbia In Agreement With White Sox
Tigers, Casey Mize Avoid Arbitration
Grayson Rodriguez Adding New Pitch?
Alex Cobb To Start Throwing Soon
Giants To Use Jordan Hicks As "Conventional Starter"
Dylan Cease Believed To Be Staying Put For Now
Dustin May Started Throwing Progression
Twins Say Pablo Lopez Will Be Opening Day Starter
Rangers Sign Jose Urena To Minor-League Deal
Blue Jays Keeping Tabs On Blake Snell
James Paxton Drawing Interest From Baltimore
Sean Manaea Officially Signs With The Mets
Dodgers Expected To Use Six-Man Rotation In 2024
Guardians Unlikely To Trade Shane Bieber
Rays, Aaron Civale Settle At One-Year $4.9 Million
Jesus Luzardo, Marlins Avoid Arbitration
Michael King Avoids Arbitration With New Club
Zac Gallen Avoids Arbitration With Diamondbacks
Brent Suter Agrees With Reds On One-Year Deal
Luke Weaver, Yankees Agree On One-Year Deal
Dane Dunning Avoids Arbitration With Rangers
Marcus Stroman, Yankees Agree On Two-Year Deal
Astros Avoid Arbitration With Framber Valdez
Corbin Burnes, Brewers Settle At $15.673 Million
Walker Buehler, Dodgers Settle At $8.025 Million
Max Fried, Braves Settle At $15 Million
Shane McClanahan, Rays Avoid Arbitration With Two-Year Pact
Justin Steele, Cubs Avoid Arbitration
Tarik Skubal Avoids Arbitration With Tigers
Logan Gilbert, Mariners Settle At $4.05 Million
Pirates Think Paul Skenes Could Benefit From More Development
Pirates Avoid Arbitration With JT Brubaker

Top 175 Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings (January Update)

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

SP Tier	SP Ranking	Player Name	Pos	Overall
1	1	Spencer Strider	SP	10
1	2	Gerrit Cole	SP	13
1	3	Shohei Ohtani	DH/SP	15
2	4	Corbin Burnes	SP	25
2	5	Zack Wheeler	SP	28
2	6	Luis Castillo	SP	29
2	7	Kevin Gausman	SP	34
2	8	Tyler Glasnow	SP	35
2	9	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	SP	37
2	10	George Kirby	SP	41
2	11	Pablo Lopez	SP	42
3	12	Zac Gallen	SP	48
3	13	Max Fried	SP	49
3	14	Aaron Nola	SP	51
3	15	Blake Snell	SP	52
3	16	Freddy Peralta	SP	56
3	17	Tarik Skubal	SP	57
3	18	Kodai Senga	SP	66
3	19	Logan Webb	SP	68
3	20	Framber Valdez	SP	69
4	21	Eury Perez	SP	72
4	22	Grayson Rodriguez	SP	73
4	23	Logan Gilbert	SP	76
4	24	Bobby Miller	SP	82
5	25	Jesus Luzardo	SP	84
5	26	Zach Eflin	SP	87
5	27	Joe Ryan	SP	92
5	28	Sonny Gray	SP	93
5	29	Justin Steele	SP	98
5	30	Kyle Bradish	SP	99
5	31	Walker Buehler	SP	103
5	32	Joe Musgrove	SP	107
5	33	Cole Ragans	SP/RP	108
5	34	Justin Verlander	SP	110
6	35	Dylan Cease	SP	111
6	36	Jordan Montgomery	SP	124
6	37	Hunter Greene	SP	125
6	38	Tanner Bibee	SP	134
6	39	Michael King	SP/RP	136
6	40	Chris Sale	SP	137
6	41	Chris Bassitt	SP	140
6	42	Shane Bieber	SP	144
7	43	Mitch Keller	SP	145
7	44	Bailey Ober	SP	153
7	45	Hunter Brown	SP	156
7	46	Carlos Rodon	SP	157
7	47	Merrill Kelly	SP	161
7	48	Gavin Williams	SP	164
7	49	Cristian Javier	SP	174
7	50	Jose Berrios	SP	175
7	51	Shane Baz	SP	178
7	52	Nick Lodolo	SP	180
7	53	Bryce Miller	SP	184
7	54	Nick Pivetta	SP/RP	185
7	55	Eduardo Rodriguez	SP	187
7	56	Bryan Woo	SP	191
7	57	Nathan Eovaldi	SP	193
7	58	Yu Darvish	SP	197
8	59	Aaron Civale	SP	205
8	60	Charlie Morton	SP	211
8	61	Andrew Abbott	SP	212
8	62	Braxton Garrett	SP	217
8	63	Triston McKenzie	SP	222
8	64	Brandon Pfaadt	SP	229
8	65	Lucas Giolito	SP	230
8	66	Shota Imanaga	SP	231
8	67	Brayan Bello	SP	232
8	68	Cristopher Sanchez	SP	238
8	69	Kenta Maeda	SP	242
8	70	Reid Detmers	SP	244
8	71	Emmet Sheehan	SP	245
8	72	Kyle Harrison	SP	246
8	73	Mason Miller	SP	247
8	74	Michael Wacha	SP	259
8	75	Kutter Crawford	SP/RP	260
9	76	Taj Bradley	SP	263
9	77	Nestor Cortes Jr.	SP	264
9	78	John Means	SP	267
9	79	Luis Severino	SP	277
9	80	Edward Cabrera	SP	278
9	81	Yusei Kikuchi	SP	280
9	82	Reese Olson	SP	283
9	83	Max Scherzer	SP	292
9	84	Jon Gray	SP	302
9	85	Marcus Stroman	SP	307
9	86	MacKenzie Gore	SP	311
9	87	Lance Lynn	SP	312
9	88	Griffin Canning	SP	314
9	89	Sawyer Gipson-Long	SP	315
9	90	Chase Silseth	SP/RP	316
9	91	Dane Dunning	SP/RP	321
9	92	Dean Kremer	SP	328
9	93	Paul Skenes	SP	331
10	94	Tyler Wells	SP/RP	332
10	95	Taijuan Walker	SP	339
10	96	Ranger Suarez	SP	340
10	97	Clayton Kershaw	SP	341
10	98	Jameson Taillon	SP	344
10	99	Patrick Sandoval	SP	345
10	100	Miles Mikolas	SP	348
10	101	Bryce Elder	SP	351
10	102	Ricky Tiedemann	SP	355
10	103	Steven Matz	SP/RP	359
10	104	Josiah Gray	SP	361
10	105	Matt Manning	SP	367
10	106	Andrew Heaney	SP/RP	369
10	107	Mike Clevinger	SP	375
10	108	Zack Littell	SP/RP	378
10	109	Clarke Schmidt	SP	381
10	110	Graham Ashcraft	SP	382
11	111	AJ Smith-Shawver	SP	383
11	112	Alek Manoah	SP	384
11	113	James Paxton	SP	385
11	114	Alex Cobb	SP	390
11	115	Jacob deGrom	SP	392
11	116	Frankie Montas	SP	395
11	117	Sean Manaea	SP/RP	396
11	118	Trevor Rogers	SP	399
11	119	Aaron Ashby	SP/RP	403
11	120	JP Sears	SP	409
11	121	Cade Horton	SP	411
12	122	Jose Quintana	SP	412
12	123	Gavin Stone	SP	413
12	124	Erick Fedde	SP	415
12	125	Jackson Jobe	SP	418
12	126	Kyle Hendricks	SP	420
12	127	Jack Flaherty	SP	421
12	128	Robert Gasser	SP	425
12	129	Javier Assad	SP/RP	426
12	130	Casey Mize	SP	427
12	131	Jordan Wicks	SP	429
12	132	Tanner Houck	SP	433
12	133	Brady Singer	SP	434
13	134	Max Meyer	SP	435
13	135	Kyle Gibson	SP	443
13	136	J.P. France	SP	445
13	137	Wade Miley	SP	446
13	138	Jeffrey Springs	SP/RP	448
13	139	Tylor Megill	SP	450
13	140	Joe Boyle	SP	452
13	141	Jose Urquidy	SP/RP	453
13	142	Chris Paddack	SP	455
13	143	Hyun Jin Ryu	SP	460
13	144	Garrett Whitlock	SP/RP	461
13	145	Brandon Williamson	SP	464
13	146	Michael Kopech	SP	465
13	147	Hayden Wesneski	SP/RP	466
13	148	Louie Varland	SP/RP	467
13	149	Drew Thorpe	SP	468
13	150	Keaton Winn	SP	472
13	151	Robbie Ray	SP	474
13	152	Connor Phillips	SP	476
13	153	Jacob Misiorowski	SP	477
13	154	Johan Oviedo	SP	482
13	155	Matt Strahm	SP/RP	484
14	156	Lance McCullers Jr.	SP	486
14	157	Michael Lorenzen	SP	487
14	158	Will Warren	SP	489
14	159	David Peterson	SP/RP	491
14	160	Jared Jones	SP	492
14	161	Dustin May	SP	494
14	162	David Festa	SP	495
14	163	Hurston Waldrep	SP	496
14	164	Ken Waldichuk	SP	504
14	165	Mick Abel	SP	509
14	166	Nick Martinez	SP/RP	510
14	167	Shane McClanahan	SP	511
14	168	Ryne Nelson	SP	515
14	169	Colin Rea	SP	516
14	170	Luis Medina	SP/RP	520
15	171	Mike Soroka	SP	522
15	172	Paul Blackburn	SP	523
15	173	Drew Rasmussen	SP	524
15	174	Ryan Yarbrough	SP/RP	525
15	175	Roansy Contreras	SP/RP	528
15	176	Emerson Hancock	SP	531
15	177	Jack Leiter	SP	534
15	178	Michael Grove	SP/RP	541
15	179	Matthew Liberatore	SP/RP	545
15	180	Alex Faedo	SP	547
16	181	Adrian Houser	SP	549
16	182	Cade Cavalli	SP	554
16	183	Carlos Rodriguez	SP	556
16	184	Drew Smyly	SP/RP	564
16	185	Ross Stripling	SP/RP	568
16	186	Shintaro Fujinami	SP/RP	571
16	187	Allan Winans	SP	572
16	188	Jared Shuster	SP	573
16	189	Tyler Anderson	SP	583
16	190	Alex Wood	SP/RP	589
16	191	Tyler Mahle	SP	593

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