Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Week 13 (2025)

June 28, 2025

Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 13 (2025). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top-101 starting pitchers.

We're a few steps away from July and the halfway mark of our fantasy baseball season. We've got some top prospects demanding the spotlight and a trade deadline on the horizon to mind. This week's version of the FSWA-award-winning Best Baseball Series will supply a trade preview alongside my latest edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks!

Readers will find my SP thoughts with tiered ranks (the tiers matter more than individual ranks), 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 from our star evaluator, Eric Cross. This is written throughout Tuesday, so the table will reflect some games (but not all), and stats cited are typically gathered 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 return. I hope you're putting the squeeze on flailing teams in your league and trying to snag some SP talent for the second half. As always, don't forget to have some fun as you crush the competition!

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Starting Pitcher Rankings Analysis for Week 13

-Logan Gilbert fell prey to summertime Wrigley wind on a trio of homers, which isn’t going to sway me. We know about his favorable home park, and he still delivered plenty of swing-and-miss stuff. If this is rust, then I’m a happy camper.

-Jacob Misiorowski is anchoring us with sky-high expectations, but it’s difficult not to see the ace vision when you watch him pitch. Logan Henderson was very effective, but Misiorowski looked overpowering. If he maintains command of the zone as hitters get MLB tape and adjust, then we’re going as far as Milwaukee’s workload management takes us. His face-off with Paul Skenes on Wednesday is must-see TV.

Highest avg fastball velocity this season
(min. 60 innings):

1. Paul Skenes (98.0)
2. JACOB MISIOROWSKI (97.7)
3. Tarik Skubal (97.6)

Can't wait to see it in the show. pic.twitter.com/CMKPhzvPki

— Paul Hembekides (Hembo) (@PaulHembo) June 11, 2025

-We’re expecting Shota Imanaga and Nathan Eovaldi back near the top, with the usual IL-rust caveat. Hopefully, Imanaga continues to suppress the dangerous fly balls. It sucks that we missed earlier, cooler time with his repertoire. He took a 53.8% fly-ball rate into the IL stint, with a 4.53 FIP, 4.83 xFIP, and 4.78 SIERA with the 2.82 ERA through 44 ⅔ IP.

-Will Warren continues to provide hope for Team SIERA, while Ben Brown crashed out and is headed back to Triple-A. He’s gone from throwing his four-seamer around 35% of the time to 50% in June.

It had a beautiful .135 xBA last year (.074 AVG) and even with heavier usage, the .200 xBA (.182 AVG) and .282 xwOBA (.261 wOBA) are exceptional. Getting more comfortable with the fastball gives us more paths to success here, especially as his sweeper whiffs are down.

-Chase Burns announced his MLB career by striking out the side against the Yankees, which includes A.L. MVP frontrunner Aaron Judge. While he gave up a single in the second, he remained in control and got another three strikeouts. Painted fastballs, confident sliders, and a 2-2 changeup to Cody Bellinger that caught the bottom of the zone.

While the Yanks made some better contact after seeing him once, the upside is clear. Burns became the first starter to strike out his first five batters faced in his MLB debut, at least in the Expansion Era, per the Elias Sports Bureau. If he gets beaten by living in the zone with that fastball, then so be it, but his slider, blossoming changeup, and perhaps a curve down the road can be fantastic.

-Jose Soriano is a boss right now, riding his sinker to the top (bottom?) with slider and curveball command, allowing him to rack up whiffs. He only mustered 10 total Ks across four starts from May 19-June 4 (20 ⅓ IP), but now has 28 Ks in 20 ⅔ IP of two-run ball against the A’s, Yankees, and Astros.

José Soriano is the first Halos pitcher with 6.2+ IP & one-or-fewer runs allowed in three straight starts since Hector Santiago from June 28 - July 10, 2015.

Soriano is also the first Angels pitcher with 28+ strikeouts in a three-game span since Shohei Ohtani (28 SO from April… pic.twitter.com/ZOlXFZPfhp

— AngelsWin.com (@AngelsWin) June 24, 2025

We’ve seen flashes from him before and need the groundball gods to guide things to fielders, but this is also more than a three-start outburst. It’s easy for us to hone in on Ks and ratios, but did you know that his .032 ISO (isolated power) is the lowest among 170 pitchers (min. 100 PA faced) since May 1? Beauty!

-Janson Junk is second on that ISO leaderboard with a .038 mark since May 1, by the way. He’s also second on the walk rate board at 1.8%, trailing only Zack Littell, but with a K rate that’s over five percentage points higher and a slugging percentage nearly 200 points lower. I'm not expecting much here, but it's intriguing.

-Brandon Pfaadt has the worst xBA (.334) out of all starting pitchers going back to the beginning of May, which isn’t hard to believe! But he still struck out seven Rockies at Coors and limited opponents to two runs over five innings in his previous two starts. He gets Miami next, so if there’s a turnaround occurring this year, now is the time.

Y’all are a tapped-in bunch, so I assume many have read Jeff Passan’s top-50 trade deadline candidates, with the top 30 given a percentage probability of a deal occurring. We will drill down on the SPs mentioned and discuss some potential fallout to be aware of.

-Sandy Alcantara (60% chance of trade) - After an 8.31 ERA in April and an 8.64 ERA in May, he’s turned around a 2.74 ERA with a 19:5 K:BB in 23 June innings. While loanDepot park has a bad hitting reputation for power, it has an overall 101 Park Factor per Statcast.

So we could mix in a park improvement, more run support, and a better bullpen. This could allow Junk to keep a slot as Max Meyer and/or Ryan Weathers get healthy.

-Freddy Peralta (20%) - It’s a low chance, but this would likely hurt Peralta, who calls pitcher-friendly American Family Field home. It not only has bottom-three Park Factor scores in runs and hits, but also carries the second-highest strikeout tally at 112. But it would de-clutter the rotation with Nestor Cortes and Brandon Woodruff on the IL, and many are still hoping Logan Henderson checks back in.

-Seth Lugo (40%) - Lugo is 35 and putting together a solid June for a Royals team that is hanging around .500, and therefore, the Wild Card race. While leaving Kauffman Stadium may help boost his Ks, the park is great for suppressing all power. It would give Noah Cameron, who has plenty of IP runway left, a role that isn’t tied to Cole Ragans’ health. No exciting prospects are knocking at the door.

-Zac Gallen (30%); Merrill Kelly (30%) - The odds here may be rising with Corbin Carroll now on the injured list with a fractured wrist. Gallen has been awful with a strong track record, while Kelly has looked sharp at 36 years old. Each should enjoy getting out of Chase Field. Unfortunately, no prospects loom. Yilber Diaz has had an awful year at Triple-A, even after they moved him to a reliever role in June.

-Luis Severino (40%) - Getting out of Sutter Health Park has to be a win, given the 0.93 ERA on the road vs. 6.79 in 57 IP in Sacramento. Sevy does have a 3.74 FIP behind the 4.42 ERA, but his 6.8% swinging-strike rate is his all-time low by a mile (and not solved by home/road splits). We’d like to see arms such as Jacob Lopez, Jack Perkins, and J.T. Ginn get regular run.

-Tyler Mahle (30%) - I can’t say that Mahle’s injury history and overall profile is one I’m keen to hold through a shoulder issue. Cody Bradford is out for the year, but Jon Gray (wrist) should return soon. Maybe he gets more wins on a contender? Meh.

-Zach Eflin (75%); Tomoyuki Sugano (#44) - Baltimore’s reluctance to parlay their glut of offensive talent into better pitching has helped fuel a downward spiral into the selling window. After being a pitcher’s park, the new wall height has ushered in a top-three Park Factor of 110, so consider any move a good one. Maybe we’ll see Grayson Rodriguez later? More chances for Chayce McDermott and Brandon Young?

-Walker Buehler (35%) - I’m not holding my breath for fantasy relevance here.

-Nick Martinez (65%) - His swinging-strike rate sits at 8.5% after dropping to 10.9% in ‘24 from 12.7% in ‘23. Getting out of Great American Ball Park is a win, but there’s not much to hang one’s hat on at 34 years old.

-Erick Fedde (50%) - Whiffs are down, walks are up, and his xStats look eerily like his poor 2022 line from before he took a one-year KBO contract to fix things. The biggest opportunity here would be sustained opportunity for the likes of Michael McGreevy, Quinn Mathews, or Tink Hence.

-Andrew Heaney (#31) - It was a fun run, but we’re well beyond the circle of trust (unless the Dodgers bring him back).

-Edward Cabrera (#32) - This would bear the same consequences as Alcantara, but ECab has that unrefined potential that could unlock an elite profile with the right surroundings.

-Zack Littell (#34) - Littell continues to outpitch his peripherals despite George M. Steinbrenner Field. The 29-year-old has navigated the 2.03 HR/9 with a career-low 2.8% walk rate and .258 BABIP (career .291, .311 last year). Regardless, we’re here for Joe Boyle (or Ian Seymour) getting an MLB slot.

-Tyler Anderson (#35) - We know who Anderson is by now. And if the Angels do free up some space, none of Caden Dana, Jake Eder, and so on are worth highlighting.

-Michael Soroka (#43) - It makes sense for Washington to flip his career-best 26.5% K%, especially as the horrid 12.7% BB rate that plagued him last year has halved in a new uniform. The Nats have a neutral 0 Outs Above Average, with several contenders offering premium defense that could help close the gap between his 5.06 ERA and 3.33 SIERA.

Even before a trade, Cade Cavalli should get a chance, but this would solidify the opening. Shinnosuke Ogasawara also has a 7:1 K:BB with two hits allowed over five rehab innings after his oblique injury.

Cade Cavalli's 6-inning quality start at Triple-A tonight:

⚾️ Topped out at 97 (4 times)
⚾️ Sat at 96 MPH with FB
⚾️ Got 5 whiffs on his CB
⚾️ 85 pitches; he's built up and ready.

I expect to see him called up on the next homestand.

— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) June 21, 2025

Top 101 Starting Pitchers for Fantasy Baseball - Week 13

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