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Top 225 Starting Pitcher (SP) Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Roto Leagues - March Updates

Chris Sale - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

Updated fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for 2025 roto league drafts, as of March. Read our top 225 tiered SP rankings for fantasy baseball drafts.

The 2025 MLB officially gets started soon, and the biggest stretch of drafts is underway for fantasy baseball managers. We are back with more fantasy baseball rankings to help you cruise through your drafts with our MLB team's updated 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings and tiers for roto leagues (5x5 category mixed leagues).

Depending on who you ask, taking starting pitchers early in drafts is not a popular strategy among some fantasy managers. There is a lot of depth in pitching, and Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes is the only SP being selected in the first round in recent drafts. Atlanta Braves right-hander Spencer Schwellenbach's ADP continues to skyrocket after posting a 3.35 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, and 127:23 K:BB last season. But where do the rest of the pitchers rank? Let's take a look below at the top 225 pitchers.

The starting pitcher rankings below are specifically designed for traditional roto leagues (5x5 categories), put together by MLB team lead Nick Mariano. We also have many other rankings for various league formats, and 17 different rankings types to choose from. Some of the most popular ones are highlighted below.

Be sure to also bookmark our other fantasy baseball rankings:

 

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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings (March Update)

These rankings are for roto 5x5 category mixed leagues and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard.

Ranking Tier Player Position
1 1 Tarik Skubal SP
2 1 Paul Skenes SP
3 1 Zack Wheeler SP
4 2 Garrett Crochet SP
5 2 Chris Sale SP
6 2 Logan Gilbert SP
7 2 Blake Snell SP
8 2 Corbin Burnes SP
9 2 Jacob deGrom SP
10 2 Cole Ragans SP
11 3 Dylan Cease SP
12 3 Yoshinobu Yamamoto SP
13 3 Framber Valdez SP
14 3 Michael King SP
15 3 Spencer Strider SP
16 3 Pablo Lopez SP
17 3 Shota Imanaga SP
18 4 Joe Ryan SP
19 4 Spencer Schwellenbach SP
20 4 Bailey Ober SP
21 4 Tanner Bibee SP
22 4 Bryce Miller SP
23 4 Roki Sasaki SP
24 5 Max Fried SP
25 5 Hunter Greene SP
26 5 Hunter Brown SP
27 5 Luis Castillo SP
28 5 Tyler Glasnow SP
29 5 Aaron Nola SP
30 5 Sonny Gray SP
31 5 Freddy Peralta SP
32 5 Logan Webb SP
33 5 Zac Gallen SP
34 5 Cristopher Sanchez SP
35 6 Carlos Rodon SP
36 6 Justin Steele SP
37 6 Bryan Woo SP
38 6 George Kirby SP
39 6 Robbie Ray SP
40 6 Jack Flaherty SP
41 7 Sandy Alcantara SP
42 7 Kevin Gausman SP
43 7 Reynaldo Lopez SP
44 7 Kodai Senga SP
45 7 Yusei Kikuchi SP
46 7 Nick Pivetta SP
47 7 Brandon Pfaadt SP
48 7 Ryan Pepiot SP
49 7 Taj Bradley SP
50 7 Zach Eflin SP
51 7 Seth Lugo SP
52 7 Clay Holmes SP/RP
53 7 Nathan Eovaldi SP
54 7 Shane Baz SP
55 7 Spencer Arrighetti SP
56 8 Bowden Francis SP/RP
57 8 Gavin Williams SP
58 8 Tanner Houck SP
59 8 MacKenzie Gore SP
60 8 A.J. Puk SP/RP
61 8 Nick Lodolo SP
62 8 Jesus Luzardo SP
63 8 Drew Rasmussen SP/RP
64 8 Ronel Blanco SP
65 8 Jeffrey Springs SP
66 8 Jackson Jobe SP/RP
67 8 Walker Buehler SP
68 8 Grant Holmes SP/RP
69 8 Brandon Woodruff SP
70 8 Clarke Schmidt SP
71 8 Nestor Cortes SP
72 9 Reese Olson SP
73 9 Grayson Rodriguez SP
74 9 Mitch Keller SP
75 9 Sean Manaea SP
76 9 Jose Berrios SP
77 9 Michael Wacha SP
78 9 Kumar Rocker SP
79 9 Shane McClanahan SP
80 9 Matthew Boyd SP
81 9 Shohei Ohtani (SP) SP
82 9 Max Scherzer SP
83 9 Kris Bubic SP/RP
84 9 Merrill Kelly SP
85 9 Luis Severino SP
86 10 Jared Jones SP
87 10 Bubba Chandler SP
88 10 Ranger Suarez SP
89 10 Tomoyuki Sugano SP
90 10 Erick Fedde SP
91 10 Justin Verlander SP
92 10 David Peterson SP
93 10 Dustin May SP
94 10 Yu Darvish SP
95 10 Aaron Civale SP
96 10 Nick Martinez SP/RP
97 11 Jameson Taillon SP
98 11 Brayan Bello SP
99 11 Chris Bassitt SP
100 11 Landen Roupp SP/RP
101 11 Casey Mize SP
102 11 AJ Smith-Shawver SP
103 11 Hayden Wesneski SP/RP
104 11 David Festa SP
105 11 Tobias Myers SP
106 11 Brady Singer SP
107 11 Luis L. Ortiz SP/RP
108 11 Will Warren SP
109 11 Jack Leiter SP
110 11 Charlie Morton SP
111 11 Eduardo Rodriguez SP
112 11 Kutter Crawford SP
113 11 Max Meyer SP
114 11 Mike Soroka SP/RP
115 11 Tylor Megill SP
116 11 Sean Burke SP
117 11 Zebby Matthews SP
118 12 Quinn Mathews SP
119 12 Cade Povich SP
120 12 Marcus Stroman SP
121 12 Ben Brown SP/RP
122 12 Lucas Giolito SP
123 12 Andrew Heaney SP
124 12 Edward Cabrera SP
125 12 Zack Littell SP
126 12 Osvaldo Bido SP/RP
127 12 Mike Clevinger SP
128 12 Jose Quintana SP
129 12 Frankie Montas SP
130 12 Matthew Liberatore SP/RP
131 12 Reid Detmers SP
132 12 Hayden Birdsong SP
133 12 Tyler Holton SP/RP
134 12 Jake Irvin SP
135 12 Tyler Mahle SP
136 12 Joe Boyle SP
137 12 Joey Cantillo SP
138 12 Ryan Weathers SP
139 12 Griffin Canning SP
140 12 Jack Kochanowicz SP
141 12 Shane Bieber SP
142 12 Dean Kremer SP
143 12 Graham Ashcraft SP
144 12 Cody Bradford SP
145 12 Beau Brieske SP/RP
146 12 JP Sears SP
147 12 Garrett Whitlock SP
148 12 Luis Gil SP
149 12 Simeon Woods Richardson SP
150 12 Richard Fitts SP
151 12 Bobby Miller SP
152 13 Ryne Nelson SP
153 13 Jordan Hicks SP/RP
154 13 Mitchell Parker SP
155 13 Logan Allen SP
156 13 Emerson Hancock SP
157 13 Carlos Carrasco SP
158 13 Michael McGreevy SP
159 13 Joey Estes SP
160 13 Kyle Hart SP
161 13 Kyle Harrison SP
162 13 DJ Herz SP
163 13 Tony Gonsolin SP
164 13 Clayton Kershaw SP
165 13 Tyler Anderson SP
166 13 Thomas Harrington SP
167 13 Alex Cobb SP
168 13 Michael Lorenzen SP/RP
169 13 Eury Perez SP
170 13 Yariel Rodriguez SP
171 13 Jon Gray SP
172 13 Alec Marsh SP
173 13 Ben Lively SP
174 13 Kyle Gibson SP
175 13 Brandon Sproat SP
176 14 Chris Paddack SP
177 14 Trevor Williams SP
178 14 Noah Cameron SP
179 14 Andrew Painter SP
180 14 Andre Pallante SP/RP
181 14 Andrew Abbott SP
182 14 Jose Butto SP/RP
183 14 Jacob Misiorowski SP
184 14 Miles Mikolas SP
185 14 Noah Schultz SP
186 14 Taijuan Walker SP
187 14 Bailey Falter SP
188 14 Landon Knack SP
189 14 Colin Rea SP/RP
190 14 Jakob Junis SP/RP
191 14 Quinn Priester SP
192 14 Chase Dollander SP
193 14 Matt Waldron SP
194 14 Paul Blackburn SP
195 15 Emiliano Teodo SP
196 15 Steven Matz SP/RP
197 15 Kenta Maeda SP/RP
198 15 Albert Suarez SP/RP
199 15 Rhett Lowder SP
200 15 Triston McKenzie SP
201 15 Jake Bloss SP
202 15 Stephen Kolek SP
203 15 Cal Quantrill SP
204 15 Fernando Cruz SP/RP
205 15 Jonathan Cannon SP
206 15 Kyle Hendricks SP/RP
207 15 Lance Lynn SP
208 15 Trevor Rogers SP
209 15 Shinnosuke Ogasawara SP
210 15 Jared Koenig SP/RP
211 15 Martin Perez SP/RP
212 15 Logan Henderson SP
213 15 Javier Assad SP
214 15 Mitch Spence SP/RP
215 15 Cade Cavalli SP
216 15 Connor Gillispie SP
217 15 Cade Horton SP
218 15 Ian Anderson SP
219 15 Kyle Bradish SP
220 15 Kyle Freeland SP
221 15 Slade Cecconi SP/RP
222 15 Drew Thorpe SP
223 15 Ryan Feltner SP
224 15 Caden Dana SP
225 15 Hurston Waldrep SP
226 15 Austin Gomber SP
227 15 Keider Montero SP
228 15 Ian Seymour SP
229 15 German Marquez SP
230 15 Lance McCullers Jr. SP


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