Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Week 14 (2025)

July 3, 2025

Nick Mariano's updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for Week 14 (2025). Baller Ranks is a weekly rankings list for the top-101 starting pitchers.

Welcome to July, which means we're officially past the halfway mark of our fantasy season. Some may feel like it's only been a month, while others would swear they've lived multiple lives since April. Whatever you're feeling, the latest of the FSWA-award-winning Best Baseball Series will help you keep your cool this summer with 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. Let's hope there are some key free agents or trade opportunities available here for you. Don't let up now, as you can take a power nap during the All-Star break in a couple of weeks!

Starting Pitcher Rankings Analysis for Week 14

-Tarik Skubal dialed things back up with 13 strikeouts after failing to top eight strikeouts in five straight starts. The bar is in the upper stratosphere with Skubal, who is now ranked sixth overall per Yahoo 5x5 scoring. Shouts to everyone who thought that no arm was worth a first-round selection!

And anyone fearing he’s built up on starts against the A.L. Central, which is comparatively weak (especially when pitching for the Tigers), should note that only four of his 17 starts have come against the division. And one of those was a 1-0 loss to Kansas City! Respect the man.

Tarik Skubal’s last 15 starts

10-0
1.74 ERA
0.762 WHIP
128 strikeouts
9 walks

— Chris Castellani (@Castellani2014) June 30, 2025

-Garrett Crochet hops into the top tier as he’s consistently working deep into games with an eye-popping 88:12 K:BB over his last 10 starts. The 29.1% K-BB% in that window trails only Skubal (30.1%), with both of them four percentage points higher than any other pitcher.

-Jacob Misiorowski is quite the pitcher, eh? Three MLB starts, three wins. They limited him to five innings (76 pitches) since he was going on four days' rest, but that didn’t stop him from reaching 102.4 mph and nearly averaging triple digits with the heater.

Kudos to them for putting the Misiorowski-Paul Skenes duel into play. No one is reasonably expecting near-perfection each time out, but the way his 12.5% walk rate works is by being so overwhelming otherwise that a little traffic goes nowhere.

This may lead to some costly mistakes later on, such as a three-run homer on the one hit he surrenders all game, but only curmudgeons who missed out will scoff at The Miz.

-Ranger Suarez continues to make up for lost time after missing April, as he tossed his 10th straight quality start on Sunday. The southpaw appears to have shaken off all of the rust in his first game back against Arizona on May 4.

And after only topping six strikeouts once in his first eight outings, he’s now rung up seven or eight batters in three straight. This latest turn saw him throw his cutter the most for the first time all year to great effect.

The Braves average exit velocity off of Ranger Suarez today was 76 mph. It's the 2nd lowest by a Phillies starter in the statcast era, per Scott Franzke.

The only person ahead of him? Ranger Suarez, last year.

— Luke Arcaini (@ArcainiLuke) June 29, 2025

While that’s neat, most eyes were drawn to reduced pitching velocity. He was working between 91-92 mph in June after sitting 92-93 in May, but it averaged just 89 mph on June 29. The sinker and curveball also fell two ticks. Every pitcher can have a blip, and they’re sure easier to gloss over when the start still goes well, but this cannot lead to a pattern.

-Shota Imanaga allowed one hit and one walk across five scoreless frames in his return to action in St. Louis. Who doesn’t have one of their best starts after missing nearly two months, anyway?

He gets a strong home matchup against the Guardians on Wednesday, where I’m hoping to see more swing-and-miss stuff play up. If we don’t, then I may have to endorse a “sell high on name brand perception” approach.

Last year’s 25.1% K rate has given way to a measly 18.7% clip thus far, which does not pair nicely with a doubled walk rate (4% to 7.6%), but a .209 BABIP (.264 last year) has helped cover up the bad. More fly balls will yield lower BABIPs, but this isn’t the fantasy-friendly direction to trend.

-Seth Lugo has gone through waves with increased strikeouts before, and all we can do is respect it and ride the wave when it comes. He’d gone six straight outings without more than five strikeouts, but now he’s topped seven in three straight (9, 7, 8), including the latest home tilt against the Dodgers.

Said Dodgers did push him to the limit and force a season-high five walks, but Lugo’s deep arsenal limited the bats enough to keep them off the scoreboard. It’s reasonable to expect him to feel more comfortable in the zone against most other teams that aren’t trotting out such a deep lineup.

-Sonny Gray has pulled some funky yo-yo acts this year, but few pitchers boast the ceiling shown in his 11-strikeout one-hitter that took just 89 pitches. We’ve seen some ugly outings mixed in, but anyone who took Gray as a discounted SP1/SP2 can’t be upset!

Remember that stat about Skubal and Crochet having the best K-BB rates going back to early May? Gray’s 25.4% mark is third, ahead of Zack Wheeler’s 25.1% rate as the only four arms to surpass 25% in the time window. Not too shabby!

-Chase Burns will be a great pitcher, but even the best will get walloped when big-league hitters know what’s coming. It sure looks like they got an early read on Burns, who recorded just one out and allowed five earned runs (seven total) on Monday.

"I checked in with both sides, the Reds think that he probably was tipping."@JonHeyman, BK and @PenaCarlos23 discuss Chase Burns' start last night against the Red Sox. pic.twitter.com/CxDTVMa6ru

— MLB Now (@MLBNow) July 1, 2025

Perhaps the Yankees also caught on after his early dominance in his MLB debut. Pitching in the bigs is a chess battle of never-ending adjustments, so let’s hope Cincy’s coaches can help him shroud pitch intent before his road date with Philadelphia.

-Tanner Bibee is pulling back from the four-seamer and cutter this month, instead favoring the sweeper. Lo and behold, he struck out a season-high 10 against the A’s on June 20 and struck out another seven over six frames against Toronto on June 26.

He’s racked up at least six Ks in four of his five June outings after failing to reach that even once over his first eight starts of the year. If the whiffs are coming back, then we know what his upside can be, but he’ll have a tough test at Wrigley on Wednesday.

-Jacob Lopez was perfect through three innings against the Rays, but his old team locked in during the second time around. While Lopez has been outstanding lately, Tampa Bay is the best offense going right now, especially when they’re at home in hitter-friendly George M. Steinbrenner Field. He should enjoy brighter skies in a home start against the Giants this weekend.

-Brayan Bello pulled back the cutter usage against the Blue Jays, and consequently, only struck out one over six innings. Back to the “meh” pile you go until that reverses course or an alternate path to whiffs ramps up.

-Jose Soriano’s command was off, and everyone buying in got smacked with a meltdown. He’s nowhere near the “lock” tiers, and we’ll have to play the control trends with him. He’ll look to prove that he’s still worth a roster slot on Thursday at Atlanta.

-Max Scherzer made one mistake to Jazz Chisholm Jr. for a two-run homer, but otherwise held the Yanks to two hits with seven strikeouts and zero walks over five innings. Unfortunately, he was lifted before the sixth began with fatigue in his right thumb. This will be a constant and will heavily limit his fantasy appeal.

John Schneider says Blue Jays will monitor Max Scherzer's thumb ahead of his next start. “Thumb was still kind of fatigued” in the fifth inning, leading to his exit after 71 pitches. But Schneider loved what he saw from Scherzer on the mound vs. NYY.

— Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) July 1, 2025

-Zac Gallen has eroded nearly all remaining faith from the fantasy community, but then he pulls out a 10-strikeout, seven-inning gem against the Giants. Of course, all it did was lower his ERA to 5.45 on the year, but I know some of you are simply waiting for a spark.

There were quite a few incredible pitching lines logged on Tuesday night, which I've tried to fold into the table, even if it's too late for me to write much up on it now. I know most are tabbing down to the table, but I do appreciate rocking with you throughout the year on this column. A series of foot surgeries has knocked me down lately, but I went for my first jog in years yesterday, so here's to a fun summer for everyone!

Top 101 Starting Pitchers for Fantasy Baseball - Week 14

Note: Spencer Schwellenbach (elbow) was injured after this article was published.

Top Starting Pitcher Stashes for Fantasy Baseball - Week 14

Here are the key SP stashes from our esteemed, industry-leading prospect analyst, Eric Cross. You can also read his full Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash article, which is updated weekly!

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