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Top 225 fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for points leagues, updated March 2025. Crush your drafts with updated starting pitcher H2H points rankings.
For fantasy managers looking for a consensus SP rankings list for points leagues, we've got you covered with our updated 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for points leagues and H2H points leagues. Spring training is soon coming to an end, and the heart of the fantasy baseball draft season is here. In recent years, fantasy baseball points leagues have become even more popular than traditional roto leagues. Points leagues do not have a standard scoring among the platforms, especially regarding scoring for pitchers.
Starting pitchers in points leagues almost always gets pushed up in drafts as they usually score more points at the end of the year than hitters. While there is plenty of depth in starting pitching this year, nine SPs are ranked in the top 40 overall in our recent points rankings. Find out where key starters such as Dylan Cease, Yusei Kikuchi, Zac Gallen, Spencer Schwellenbach, and more are listed in our ranks.
The SP rankings below are specifically designed for points leagues, put together by RotoBaller's MLB points expert Nicklaus Gaut. We also have many other fantasy baseball rankings, tools, and resources to help you win in 2025, including our constantly-updated fantasy baseball points rankings for all positions. Be sure to also download our free fantasy baseball mobile app so you can stay on top of all the MLB news and analysis articles.
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Starting Pitcher Fantasy Baseball News and Injuries
- Jordan Montgomery Will Undergo Tommy John Surgery
- Shane McClanahan Will Undergo Imaging On Sunday
- Clarke Schmidt Will Begin The Season On The IL
- Ryan Weathers Will Open Season On Injured List
- Kris Bubic Appears To Be The Favorite For The Royals No. 5 Spot
- Kumar Rocker Bounces Back With Eight Strikeout Performance
- Corbin Burnes Having Strong Spring With New Team
- Chase Dollander Strikes Out Seven In Latest Cactus League Start
- Clayton Kershaw Transferred To 60-Day Injured List
- Rangers Place Jon Gray On 60-Day Injured List
- Patrick Corbin Joining The Rangers
- Yu Darvish Day-To-Day With Elbow Inflammation
- Blue Jayes Hoping Max Scherzer Can Pitch This Weekend
- Clarke Schmidt To Throw Live Batting Practice On Tuesday
- Tobias Myers Exits Early On Saturday
- Cody Bradford Won't Throw For At Least Four Weeks
- Bryce Miller Ironing Out The Kinks In Spring Training
- Logan Gilbert Named Opening Day Starter
- Jon Gray Has A Fractured Right Wrist
- Garrett Crochet Named Opening Day Starter
- Paul Skenes Named Opening Day Starter
- Matt Waldron Diagnosed With Oblique Strain
- Shane Baz Not Worried About Spring Training Results
- Jacob deGrom Throws In Minor-League Game On Friday
- Grayson Rodriguez Should Begin Throwing Progression Next Week
SP Points Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (March Updates)
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, and those 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.
| Ranking | Tier | Player | Position |
| 1 | 1 | Tarik Skubal | SP |
| 2 | 1 | Zack Wheeler | SP |
| 3 | 1 | Paul Skenes | SP |
| 4 | 1 | Logan Gilbert | SP |
| 5 | 1 | Dylan Cease | SP |
| 6 | 2 | Framber Valdez | SP |
| 7 | 2 | Pablo Lopez | SP |
| 8 | 2 | Cole Ragans | SP |
| 9 | 2 | Corbin Burnes | SP |
| 10 | 2 | Blake Snell | SP |
| 11 | 2 | Logan Webb | SP |
| 12 | 2 | Garrett Crochet | SP |
| 13 | 2 | Luis Castillo | SP |
| 14 | 2 | Aaron Nola | SP |
| 15 | 3 | Chris Sale | SP |
| 16 | 3 | Michael King | SP |
| 17 | 3 | Shota Imanaga | SP |
| 18 | 3 | Tanner Bibee | SP |
| 19 | 3 | Kevin Gausman | SP |
| 20 | 3 | Freddy Peralta | SP |
| 21 | 3 | Sonny Gray | SP |
| 22 | 4 | Hunter Brown | SP |
| 23 | 4 | Spencer Schwellenbach | SP |
| 24 | 4 | Bailey Ober | SP |
| 25 | 4 | Justin Steele | SP |
| 26 | 4 | Max Fried | SP |
| 27 | 4 | Zac Gallen | SP |
| 28 | 4 | Joe Ryan | SP |
| 29 | 5 | Yusei Kikuchi | SP |
| 30 | 5 | Bryce Miller | SP |
| 31 | 5 | Yoshinobu Yamamoto | SP |
| 32 | 5 | Carlos Rodon | SP |
| 33 | 5 | Seth Lugo | SP |
| 34 | 5 | Reynaldo Lopez | SP |
| 35 | 5 | Jose Berrios | SP |
| 36 | 5 | Hunter Greene | SP |
| 37 | 5 | Tyler Glasnow | SP |
| 38 | 5 | Jack Flaherty | SP |
| 39 | 6 | George Kirby | SP |
| 40 | 6 | Taj Bradley | SP |
| 41 | 6 | MacKenzie Gore | SP |
| 42 | 6 | Cristopher Sanchez | SP |
| 43 | 6 | Kodai Senga | SP |
| 44 | 6 | Zach Eflin | SP |
| 45 | 6 | Tanner Houck | SP |
| 46 | 6 | Sandy Alcantara | SP |
| 47 | 7 | Nick Pivetta | SP |
| 48 | 7 | Mitch Keller | SP |
| 49 | 7 | Nathan Eovaldi | SP |
| 50 | 7 | Chris Bassitt | SP |
| 51 | 7 | Ronel Blanco | SP |
| 52 | 7 | Ryan Pepiot | SP |
| 53 | 7 | Brandon Pfaadt | SP |
| 54 | 7 | Robbie Ray | SP |
| 55 | 7 | Spencer Strider | SP |
| 56 | 7 | Roki Sasaki | SP |
| 57 | 7 | Michael Wacha | SP |
| 58 | 7 | Ranger Suarez | SP |
| 59 | 8 | Brady Singer | SP |
| 60 | 8 | Merrill Kelly | SP |
| 61 | 8 | Erick Fedde | SP |
| 62 | 8 | Jesus Luzardo | SP |
| 63 | 8 | Bryan Woo | SP |
| 64 | 8 | Nestor Cortes | SP |
| 65 | 8 | Jacob deGrom | SP |
| 66 | 8 | Jameson Taillon | SP |
| 67 | 8 | Sean Manaea | SP |
| 68 | 9 | Grayson Rodriguez | SP |
| 69 | 9 | Nick Lodolo | SP |
| 70 | 9 | Luis Severino | SP |
| 71 | 9 | Bowden Francis | SP/RP |
| 72 | 9 | Brayan Bello | SP |
| 73 | 9 | Clarke Schmidt | SP |
| 74 | 9 | Spencer Arrighetti | SP |
| 75 | 9 | Charlie Morton | SP |
| 76 | 9 | JP Sears | SP |
| 77 | 9 | Gavin Williams | SP |
| 78 | 9 | Clay Holmes | SP/RP |
| 79 | 9 | Shane Baz | SP |
| 80 | 10 | Jeffrey Springs | SP |
| 81 | 10 | Reese Olson | SP |
| 82 | 10 | Jake Irvin | SP |
| 83 | 10 | David Peterson | SP |
| 84 | 10 | Dean Kremer | SP |
| 85 | 10 | Brandon Woodruff | SP |
| 86 | 10 | Tyler Anderson | SP |
| 87 | 10 | Miles Mikolas | SP |
| 88 | 10 | Nick Martinez | SP/RP |
| 89 | 11 | Yu Darvish | SP |
| 90 | 11 | Aaron Civale | SP |
| 91 | 11 | Shane McClanahan | SP |
| 92 | 11 | Eduardo Rodriguez | SP |
| 93 | 11 | Andrew Abbott | SP |
| 94 | 11 | Mitchell Parker | SP |
| 95 | 11 | Jared Jones | SP |
| 96 | 11 | Tobias Myers | SP |
| 97 | 11 | DJ Herz | SP |
| 98 | 11 | Zack Littell | SP |
| 99 | 11 | Andrew Heaney | SP |
| 100 | 11 | Luis L. Ortiz | SP |
| 101 | 11 | Drew Rasmussen | SP/RP |
| 102 | 12 | Walker Buehler | SP |
| 103 | 12 | Kyle Harrison | SP |
| 104 | 12 | Ryan Feltner | SP |
| 105 | 12 | Kumar Rocker | SP |
| 106 | 12 | Kutter Crawford | SP |
| 107 | 12 | Andre Pallante | SP/RP |
| 108 | 12 | Max Scherzer | SP |
| 109 | 12 | Grant Holmes | SP/RP |
| 110 | 12 | Landen Roupp | SP |
| 111 | 12 | Edward Cabrera | SP |
| 112 | 12 | Jose Quintana | SP |
| 113 | 12 | Justin Verlander | SP |
| 114 | 12 | Tomoyuki Sugano | SP |
| 115 | 12 | Sean Burke | SP |
| 116 | 12 | Michael Lorenzen | SP |
| 117 | 13 | Jonathan Cannon | SP |
| 118 | 13 | Ben Lively | SP |
| 119 | 13 | Max Meyer | SP |
| 120 | 13 | Matthew Boyd | SP |
| 121 | 13 | Tyler Mahle | SP |
| 122 | 13 | Simeon Woods Richardson | SP |
| 123 | 13 | Marcus Stroman | SP |
| 124 | 13 | Martin Perez | SP/RP |
| 125 | 13 | Javier Assad | SP |
| 126 | 13 | Kyle Freeland | SP |
| 127 | 13 | German Marquez | SP |
| 128 | 13 | Lucas Giolito | SP |
| 129 | 13 | Colin Rea | SP |
| 130 | 13 | Mitch Spence | SP |
| 131 | 13 | Casey Mize | SP |
| 132 | 13 | David Festa | SP |
| 133 | 13 | Jon Gray | SP |
| 134 | 13 | Kyle Gibson | SP |
| 135 | 13 | Chris Paddack | SP |
| 136 | 13 | Kris Bubic | SP |
| 137 | 13 | Bailey Falter | SP |
| 138 | 13 | Hayden Birdsong | SP |
| 139 | 14 | Austin Gomber | SP |
| 140 | 14 | Trevor Williams | SP |
| 141 | 14 | Jack Leiter | SP |
| 142 | 14 | Tyler Holton | SP/RP |
| 143 | 14 | Reid Detmers | SP |
| 144 | 14 | Rhett Lowder | SP |
| 145 | 14 | Jackson Jobe | SP |
| 146 | 14 | Cal Quantrill | SP |
| 147 | 14 | Dustin May | SP |
| 148 | 14 | Ryne Nelson | SP |
| 149 | 14 | Steven Matz | SP/RP |
| 150 | 14 | Tylor Megill | SP |
| 151 | 14 | Jack Kochanowicz | SP |
| 152 | 14 | Lance Lynn | SP |
| 153 | 14 | Mike Soroka | SP |
| 154 | 14 | Zebby Matthews | SP |
| 155 | 14 | Frankie Montas | SP |
| 156 | 14 | Griffin Canning | SP |
| 157 | 14 | Will Warren | SP |
| 158 | 14 | Cody Bradford | SP |
| 159 | 14 | Joey Estes | SP |
| 160 | 14 | Yariel Rodriguez | SP |
| 161 | 15 | Cade Povich | SP |
| 162 | 15 | Osvaldo Bido | SP/RP |
| 163 | 15 | Hayden Wesneski | SP/RP |
| 164 | 15 | Shane Bieber | SP |
| 165 | 15 | Quinn Mathews | SP |
| 166 | 15 | Eury Perez | SP |
| 167 | 15 | Joey Cantillo | SP |
| 168 | 15 | Bubba Chandler | SP |
| 169 | 15 | Ryan Weathers | SP |
| 170 | 15 | Richard Fitts | SP |
| 171 | 15 | Chase Dollander | SP |
| 172 | 15 | Alec Marsh | SP |
| 173 | 15 | Alex Cobb | SP |
| 174 | 15 | Luis Garcia (SP) | SP |
| 175 | 15 | Kyle Hendricks | SP |
| 176 | 16 | Luis Gil | SP |
| 177 | 16 | Paul Blackburn | SP |
| 178 | 16 | Triston McKenzie | SP |
| 179 | 16 | Jared Koenig | SP/RP |
| 180 | 16 | Garrett Whitlock | SP |
| 181 | 16 | AJ Smith-Shawver | SP |
| 182 | 16 | Tony Gonsolin | SP |
| 183 | 16 | Jose Butto | SP/RP |
| 184 | 16 | Albert Suarez | SP |
| 185 | 16 | Ian Anderson | SP |
| 186 | 16 | Drew Thorpe | SP |
| 187 | 16 | Matthew Liberatore | SP/RP |
| 188 | 16 | Cade Cavalli | SP |
| 189 | 16 | Dane Dunning | SP/RP |
| 190 | 16 | Michael McGreevy | SP |
| 191 | 16 | Antonio Senzatela | SP |
| 192 | 16 | Kyle Hart | SP |
| 193 | 16 | Kenta Maeda | SP |
| 194 | 16 | Matt Waldron | SP |
| 195 | 16 | Bryse Wilson | SP/RP |
| 196 | 16 | J.T. Ginn | SP |
| 197 | 16 | J.T. Ginn | SP/RP |
| 198 | 16 | Jose Suarez | SP |
| 199 | 16 | Andrew Painter | SP |
| 200 | 16 | Hans Crouse | SP |
| 201 | 17 | Jakob Junis | SP/RP |
| 202 | 17 | Kyle Wright | SP |
| 203 | 17 | Ben Brown | SP/RP |
| 204 | 17 | Shawn Armstrong | SP/RP |
| 205 | 17 | Shane Smith | SP |
| 206 | 17 | Clayton Kershaw | SP |
| 207 | 17 | Landon Knack | SP |
| 208 | 17 | Mike Clevinger | SP |
| 209 | 17 | Daniel Lynch IV | SP |
| 210 | 17 | Louie Varland | SP/RP |
| 211 | 17 | Patrick Corbin | SP |
| 212 | 17 | Lance McCullers Jr. | SP |
| 213 | 17 | Caden Dana | SP |
| 214 | 17 | Alex Faedo | SP |
| 215 | 17 | Yilber Diaz | SP |
| 216 | 18 | Shinnosuke Ogasawara | SP |
| 217 | 18 | Johan Oviedo | SP |
| 218 | 18 | Emerson Hancock | SP |
| 219 | 18 | Joe Ross | SP |
| 220 | 18 | Joe Boyle | SP |
| 221 | 18 | Taijuan Walker | SP |
| 222 | 18 | Stephen Kolek | SP |
| 223 | 18 | Joey Wentz | SP/RP |
| 224 | 18 | John Brebbia | SP/RP |
| 225 | 18 | Gunnar Hoglund | SP |
| 226 | 18 | Scott Alexander | SP/RP |
| 227 | 19 | Randy Vasquez | SP/RP |
| 228 | 19 | Brady Basso | SP |
| 229 | 19 | Chase Silseth | SP/RP |
| 230 | 19 | Bobby Miller | SP |
| 231 | 19 | Jordan Wicks | SP |
| 232 | 19 | Graham Ashcraft | SP |
| 233 | 19 | Forrest Whitley | SP |
| 234 | 19 | Bryce Elder | SP |
| 235 | 19 | Hogan Harris | SP/RP |
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