Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - 2023 Points Leagues: Cristian Javier, Triston McKenzie, George Kirby, Jesus Luzardo, Patrick Sandoval

March 11, 2023

Our 2023 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for points leagues and H2H points scoring as of March 11, 2023. Use our starting pitcher rankings, tiers, and analysis to win your fantasy baseball drafts.

RotoBaller is constantly working to try and bring fantasy baseball managers the best advice, especially during draft season. A big part of that includes regular updates to our tiered rankings for all formats. In this article, you will find our updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for points leagues as of March 11.

In this article below, we will be taking a look at our starting pitcher rankings list put together by RotoBaller's lead fantasy baseball points analyst, Nicklaus Gaut. Starters logging over 200 innings in a season is a rarity these days, as only eight pitchers threw over 200-plus innings in 2022. Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara led the way with 228 2/3 innings last season. Justin Verlander was the last pitcher to throw for over 250 innings, and that was over a decade ago. Drafting pitchers in early rounds can be risky with injuries and workload management. However, pitching is a premium in points leagues; ADP for starting pitchers will be higher as opposed to roto leagues, as fantasy managers take starters who can rack up innings, quality starts, and strikeouts. Gerrit Cole, Corbin Burnes, Sandy Alcantara, and Aaron Nola lead the way for starters and are ranked in the top 20 overall in RotoBaller's top-300 rankings for points leagues. We're here to help sort it out with our 2023 fantasy baseball rankings. Let's see where key starters like Cristian Javier, Triston McKenzie, George Kirby, Nick Lodolo, Jesus Luzardo, Patrick Sandoval, Kodai Senga, and Jeffrey Springs rank, among others.

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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher News and Injuries

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• David Peterson Throws On Thursday
• Hunter Greene Named Opening Day Starter
• Clarke Schmidt, Domingo German Likely To Start In Rotation
• Clayton Kershaw To Make Spring Debut Friday
• Carlos Rodon Won't Start Season On Time
• Shohei Ohtani To Pitche Game 1 For Team Japan
• Nestor Cortes To Throw One More BP Session
• Frankie Montas Expects To Pitch This Year
• James Paxton Hopes TO Get On Mound By End Of Week

Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings- Points Leagues

These rankings are for points and head-to-head points leagues. You can also see our roto fantasy baseball rankings.

Before we get to the rankings, let's quickly review points leagues and how they differ from other formats. Typically, points leagues have different league settings and scoring formats than other fantasy baseball leagues. Different MLB stats and categories are assigned different point values, which can vary by individual league settings. Those different point buckets are then added up over the course of a scoring period or season.

In many cases, hitters who walk more and strike out less are preferred for points leagues. Also, many league formats tend to give more weight to pitchers than normal, as they can easily accrue points through categories like Innings Pitched. These are the general frameworks that we use for our points league rankings below, and explain why they look different than more standard 5x5 roto fantasy baseball rankings.

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