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Starting Pitcher (SP) Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Points Leagues - February Updates (2025)

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RotoBaller's starting pitcher (SP) points league fantasy baseball rankings, updated for February 2025. Win your drafts with our points league and H2H points rankings.

Fantasy baseball points leagues are becoming increasingly popular, and the setup closely resembles fantasy football. We published our roto league positional rankings series, and now it's time to focus on points leagues. Today, we focus on pitchers with our 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for points leagues.

Pitching is almost always at a premium in points leagues and often gets pushed up in draft boards, a concept that can differ from standard 5x5 roto leagues. As you'll see in the rankings below, Paul Skenes, Tarik Skubal, Zack Wheeler, and Logan Gilbert are still the only pitchers in the top 25 overall. There are a total of 14 pitchers ranked within the top 50. Pitching is deep this year, but it's usually worth investing in starting pitching early in point formats, so be sure to use these rankings on draft day and to prepare ahead of time.

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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SP Points Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (February)

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 Logan Webb SP
11 2 George Kirby SP
12 2 Blake Snell SP
13 2 Garrett Crochet SP
14 2 Luis Castillo SP
15 3 Chris Sale SP
16 3 Aaron Nola SP
17 3 Michael King SP
18 3 Gerrit Cole SP
19 3 Shota Imanaga SP
20 3 Kevin Gausman SP
21 3 Tanner Bibee SP
22 4 Freddy Peralta SP
23 4 Sonny Gray SP
24 4 Zac Gallen SP
25 4 Bailey Ober SP
26 4 Hunter Brown SP
27 4 Max Fried SP
28 4 Bryce Miller SP
29 5 Yusei Kikuchi SP
30 5 Joe Ryan SP
31 5 Justin Steele SP
32 5 Spencer Schwellenbach SP
33 5 Yoshinobu Yamamoto SP
34 5 Seth Lugo SP
35 5 Carlos Rodon SP
36 5 Grayson Rodriguez SP
37 5 Sean Manaea SP
38 5 Reynaldo Lopez SP
39 6 Jose Berrios SP
40 6 Jack Flaherty SP
41 6 Hunter Greene SP
42 6 Taj Bradley SP
43 6 Zach Eflin SP
44 6 MacKenzie Gore SP
45 6 Luis Garcia (SP) SP
46 6 Chris Bassitt SP
47 7 Tyler Glasnow SP
48 7 Mitch Keller SP
49 7 Nathan Eovaldi SP
50 7 Kodai Senga SP
51 7 Cristopher Sanchez SP
52 7 Jared Jones SP
53 7 Tanner Houck SP
54 7 Ryan Pepiot SP
55 7 Brandon Pfaadt SP
56 7 Ronel Blanco SP
57 7 Nick Pivetta SP
58 7 Michael Wacha SP
59 8 Erick Fedde SP
60 8 Roki Sasaki SP
61 8 Ranger Suarez SP
62 8 Shane McClanahan SP
63 8 Brayan Bello SP
64 8 Luis Gil SP
65 8 Brady Singer SP
66 8 Robbie Ray SP
67 8 Sandy Alcantara SP
68 9 Jameson Taillon SP
69 9 Bryan Woo SP
70 9 Merrill Kelly SP
71 9 Nestor Cortes SP
72 9 Jesus Luzardo SP
73 9 Luis Severino SP
74 9 Jacob deGrom SP
75 9 Spencer Strider SP
76 9 JP Sears SP
77 9 Bowden Francis SP/RP
78 9 Yu Darvish SP
79 9 Charlie Morton SP
80 10 Nick Lodolo SP
81 10 Kutter Crawford SP
82 10 Brandon Woodruff SP
83 10 Shane Baz SP
84 10 Reese Olson SP
85 10 Spencer Arrighetti SP
86 10 Aaron Civale SP
87 10 Jeffrey Springs SP
88 10 Clay Holmes SP/RP
89 11 Jake Irvin SP
90 11 Gavin Williams SP
91 11 Kyle Harrison SP
92 11 Dean Kremer SP
93 11 Tyler Anderson SP
94 11 David Peterson SP
95 11 Miles Mikolas SP
96 11 Nick Martinez SP/RP
97 11 Andrew Abbott SP
98 11 DJ Herz SP
99 11 Jon Gray SP
100 11 Clarke Schmidt SP
101 11 Eduardo Rodriguez SP
102 12 Tobias Myers SP
103 12 Mitchell Parker SP
104 12 Zack Littell SP
105 12 Drew Rasmussen SP/RP
106 12 Ryan Weathers SP
107 12 Andrew Heaney SP
108 12 Edward Cabrera SP
109 12 Kyle Gibson SP
110 12 Michael Lorenzen SP
111 12 Ryan Feltner SP
112 12 Max Scherzer SP
113 12 Walker Buehler SP
114 12 Kumar Rocker SP
115 12 Justin Verlander SP
116 12 Tyler Mahle SP
117 13 Andre Pallante SP/RP
118 13 Reid Detmers SP
119 13 Ben Lively SP
120 13 Javier Assad SP
121 13 Jonathan Cannon SP
122 13 Jose Quintana SP
123 13 Hayden Birdsong SP
124 13 Matthew Boyd SP
125 13 David Festa SP
126 13 Lucas Giolito SP
127 13 Martin Perez SP/RP
128 13 Kris Bubic SP
129 13 Austin Gomber SP
130 13 Grant Holmes SP/RP
131 13 Cody Bradford SP
132 13 Simeon Woods-Richardson SP
133 13 Mike Soroka SP
134 13 Colin Rea SP
135 13 Tomoyuki Sugano SP
136 13 Sean Burke SP
137 13 Bailey Falter SP
138 13 Casey Mize SP
139 14 Lance Lynn SP
140 14 Kyle Freeland SP
141 14 German Marquez SP
142 14 Mitch Spence SP
143 14 Tyler Holton SP/RP
144 14 Tony Gonsolin SP
145 14 Max Meyer SP
146 14 Trevor Williams SP
147 14 Kyle Hendricks SP
148 14 Chris Paddack SP
149 14 Rhett Lowder SP
150 14 Johan Oviedo SP
151 14 Jordan Montgomery SP
152 14 Shane Bieber SP
153 14 Joey Estes SP
154 14 Steven Matz SP/RP
155 14 Alec Marsh SP
156 14 Marcus Stroman SP
157 14 Cal Quantrill SP
158 14 Jackson Jobe SP
159 14 Alex Cobb SP
160 14 Hayden Wesneski SP/RP
161 15 Ryne Nelson SP
162 15 Yariel Rodriguez SP
163 15 Jack Leiter SP
164 15 Frankie Montas SP
165 15 Bubba Chandler SP
166 15 Dustin May SP
167 15 Eury Perez SP
168 15 Joey Cantillo SP
169 15 DL Hall SP/RP
170 15 Paul Blackburn SP
171 15 Osvaldo Bido SP/RP
172 15 Quinn Mathews SP
173 15 Zebby Matthews SP
174 15 Triston McKenzie SP
175 15 Drew Thorpe SP
176 16 Matt Waldron SP
177 16 Jakob Junis SP/RP
178 16 Clayton Kershaw SP
179 16 Kyle Wright SP
180 16 Randy Vasquez SP/RP
181 16 Griffin Canning SP
182 16 Cade Povich SP
183 16 Dane Dunning SP/RP
184 16 Cade Cavalli SP
185 16 Garrett Whitlock SP
186 16 Ian Anderson SP
187 16 Tylor Megill SP
188 16 Antonio Senzatela SP
189 16 Patrick Corbin SP
190 16 Albert Suarez SP
191 16 Matthew Liberatore SP/RP
192 16 AJ Smith-Shawver SP
193 16 Chase Dollander SP
194 16 J.T. Ginn SP
195 16 J.T. Ginn SP/RP
196 16 Jack Kochanowicz SP
197 16 Andrew Painter SP
198 16 Kenta Maeda SP
199 16 Landen Roupp SP
200 16 Taijuan Walker SP
201 17 Joe Ross SP
202 17 Valente Bellozo SP
203 17 Lance McCullers Jr. SP
204 17 Ben Brown SP/RP
205 17 Louie Varland SP/RP
206 17 Chase Silseth SP/RP
207 17 Landon Knack SP
208 17 Brady Basso SP
209 17 Jordan Wicks SP
210 17 Bobby Miller SP
211 17 Forrest Whitley SP
212 17 Hogan Harris SP/RP
213 17 Yilber Diaz SP
214 17 Jacob Misiorowski SP
215 17 Chris Flexen SP/RP
216 18 Graham Ashcraft SP
217 18 Alex Wood SP
218 18 Caden Dana SP
219 18 Jared Shuster SP
220 18 Trevor Rogers SP
221 18 Michael McGreevy SP
222 18 Bryce Elder SP
223 18 Anthony DeSclafani SP
224 18 Ross Stripling SP/RP
225 18 Slade Cecconi SP
226 18 Emerson Hancock SP
227 18 Clayton Beeter SP
228 18 Nick Nastrini SP
229 18 Joe Boyle SP
230 18 Matt Manning SP
231 18 Adam Mazur SP
232 18 Sawyer Gipson-Long SP
233 18 Keider Montero SP
234 18 Ty Madden SP
235 18 Robby Snelling SP
236 18 Xzavion Curry SP/RP


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