Week 27 Starting Pitcher Rankings for Fantasy Baseball

As we enter the final week of the season every last outing (and inning) makes a big difference for starting pitchers. Yet, the landscape is tricky to navigate as teams often opt to shut down or rest their starters early. This means that late in the week outings can get cancelled entirely. We evaluated pitchers that may be scratched from their planned starts when factoring our final weekly starting pitcher rankings. With that said, proceed confidently with your aces but also cautiously with those ranked lower than normal in our rankings this week.

Starting Pitcher Rankings for Week 27 (9/23 – 9/29)

Rnk	Pitcher	Team	Opp	Confidence Level
1	Tarik Skubal	DET	TBR/ CWS	9 (both matchups)
2	Zack Wheeler	PHI	@WSH	9
3	Chris Sale	ATL	NYM	8
4	Max Fried	ATL	KCR	8
5	Bryan Woo	SEA	OAK	8
6	Zac Gallen	ARI	SFG	7
7	Cole Ragans	KCR	@WSH/ @ATL	7 (@WSH=8 & @ATL=6)
8	Michael Wacha	KCR	@WSH	7
9	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	@COL	7
10	Aaron Nola	PHI	CHC/ @WSH	7 (CHC=6 & @WSH=8)
11	Paul Skenes	PIT	@NYY	7
12	Blake Snell	SFG	STL	7
13	Spencer Schwellenbach	ATL	NYM/ KCR	6 (both matchups)
14	Corbin Burnes	BAL	@NYY	6
15	Nick Pivetta	BOS	TBR	6
16	Shota Imanaga	CHC	CIN	6
17	Framber Valdez	HOU	SEA	6
18	Yusei Kikuchi	HOU	SEA	6
19	Tyler Anderson	LAA	@CWS	6
20	Jack Flaherty	LAD	SDP	6
21	Freddy Peralta	MIL	@PIT/ NYM	6 (@PIT=7 & NYM=5)
22	Pablo Lopez	MIN	BAL	6
23	Gerrit Cole	NYY	BAL	6
24	Carlos Rodon	NYY	PIT	6
25	Sonny Gray	STL	@COL/ @SFG	6 (@COL=5 & @SFG=7)
26	Erick Fedde	STL	@COL	6
27	Michael King	STL	@LAD/ @ARI	6 (both matchups)
28	Dylan Cease	SDP	@LAD	6
29	Logan Webb	SFG	@ARI	6
30	Bryce Miller	SEA	@HOU/ OAK	6 (@HOU=5 & OAK=7)
31	Logan Gilbert	SEA	@HOU	6
32	Zack Littell	TBR	@DET	6
33	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX	TOR	6
34	Bowden Francis	TOR	BOS/ MIA	6 (BOS=5 & MIA=7)
35	Eduardo Rodriguez	ARI	SFG/ SDP	5 (both matchups)
36	Merrill Kelly	ARI	SDP	5
37	Dean Kremer	BAL	@NYY/ @MIN	5 (both matchups)
38	Tanner Houck	BOS	@TOR/ TBR	5 (both matchups)
39	Brayan Bello	BOS	@TOR	5
40	Kutter Crawford	BOS	TBR	5
41	Garrett Crochet	CWS	LAA	5
42	Rhett Lowder	CIN	@CHC	5
43	Hunter Greene	CIN	@CHC	5
44	Tanner Bibee	CLE	CIN	5
45	Reese Olson	DET	CWS	5
46	Hunter Brown	HOU	SEA/ @CLE	5 (SEA=6 & @CLE=4)
47	Spencer Arrighetti	HOU	@CLE	5
48	Seth Lugo	KCR	@ATL	5
49	Jack Kochanowicz	LAA	@CWS/ TEX	5 (@CWS=6 & TEX=4)
50	Jose Saurez	LAA	@CWS	5
51	Reid Detmers	LAA	TEX	5
52	Edward Cabrera	MIA	@MIN	5
53	Braxton Garrett	MIA	@TOR	5
54	Colin Rea	MIL	NYM	5
55	Frankie Montas	MIL	NYM	5
56	Simeon Woods Richardson	MIN	MIA	5
57	Sean Manaea	NYM	@ATL	5
58	Jose Quintana	NYM	@MIL	5
59	Tylor Megill	NYM	@MIL	5
60	Lucas Gil	NYY	PIT	5
61	Cristopher Sanchez	PHI	CHC	5
62	Ranger Suarez	PHI	@WSH	5
63	Luis L. Ortiz	PIT	MIL	5
64	Kyle Gibson	STL	@COL	5
65	Miles Mikolas	STL	@SFG	5
66	Andre Pallante	STL	@SFG	5
67	Joe Musgrove	SDP	@LAD	5
68	Yu Darvish	SDP	@ARI	5
69	Robbie Ray	SFG	@ARI	5
70	George Kirby	SEA	@HOU	5
71	Emerson Hancock	SEA	OAK	5
72	Ryan Pepiot	TBR	@DET/ @BOS	5 (@DET=6 & @BOS=4)
73	Tyler Alexander	TBR	@DET	5
74	Cody Bradford	TEX	TOR	5
75	Jacob deGRom	TEX	SEA	5
76	Andrew Heaney	TEX	SEA	5
77	Kevin Gausman	TOR	BOS	5
78	Jose Berrios	TOR	BOS	5
79	Yariel Rodriguez	TOR	MIA	5
80	Chris Bassitt	TOR	MIA	5
81	DJ Herz	WSH	KCR	5
82	Brandon Pfaadt	ARI	SFG	4
83	Ryne Nelson	ARI	SDP	4
84	Grant Holmes	ATL	KCR	4
85	Zac Eflin	BAL	@NYY	4
86	Albert Suarez	BAL	@MIN	4
87	Justin Steele	CHC	@PHI	4
88	Javier Assad	CHC	@PHI	4
89	Jameson Taillon	CHC	CIN	4
90	Sean Burke	CWS	@DET	4
91	Ben Lively	CLE	HOU	4
92	Gavin Williams	CLE	HOU	4
93	Kyle Freeland	COL	STL	4
94	Brant Hunter	DET	TBR	4
95	Keider Montero	DET	CWS	4
96	Justin Verlander	HOU	@CLE	4
97	Alec Marsh	KCR	@WSH	4
98	Brady Singer	KCR	@ATL	4
99	Griffin Canning	LAA	TEX	4
100	Justin Wrobleski	LAD	SDP	4
101	Ryan Weathers	MIA	@MIN/ @TOR	4 (both matchups)
102	Adam Oller	MIA	@TOR	4
103	Tobias Myers	MIL	@PIT	4
104	Aaron Civale	MIL	@PIT	4
105	Bailey Ober	MIN	MIA/ BAL	4 (MIA=5 & BAL=3)
106	David Festa	MIN	MIA	4
107	Zebby Matthews	MIN	BAL	4
108	David Peterson	NYM	@ATL	4
109	Nestor Cortes	NYY	BAL/ PIT	4 (BAL=3 & PIT=5)
110	Mitch Spence	OAK	TEX	4
111	Joey Estes	OAK	@SEA	4
112	Bailey Falter	PIT	MIL/ @NYY	4 (MIL=5 & @NYY=3)
113	Mitch Keller	PIT	MIL	4
114	Jared Jones	PIT	@NYY	4
115	Martin Perez	SDP	@ARI	4
116	Hayden Birdsong	SFG	@ARI/ STL	4 (@ARI=4 & STL=6)
117	Taj Bradley	TBR	@BOS	4
118	Shane Baz	TBR	@BOS	4
119	Kumar Rocker	TEX	TOR	4
120	Max Scherzer	TEX	SEA	4
121	Mitchell Parker	WSH	KCR	4
122	MacKenzie Gore	WSH	PHI	4
123	Jake Irvin	WSH	PHI	4
124	Charlie Morton	ATL	NYM	3
125	Cade Povich	BAL	@MIN	3
126	Jordan Wicks	CHC	@PHI/ CIN	3 (both matchups)
127	Jonathan Cannon	CWS	LAA/ @DET	3 (LAA=4 & @DET=2)
128	Davis Martin	CWS	LAA	3
129	Chris Flexen	CWS	@DET	3
130	Nick Martinez	CIN	@CLE	3
131	Joey Cantillo	CLE	CIN	3
132	Matthew Boyd	CLE	HOU	3
133	Ryan Feltner	COL	STL/ LAD	3 (STL=4 & LAD=2)
134	Austin Gomber	COL	STL	3
135	Antonio Senzatela	COL	LAD	3
136	Casey Mize	DET	TBR	3
137	Landon Knack	LAD	SDP	3
138	Walker Buehler	LAD	@COL	3
139	Valente Bellozo	MIA	@MIN	3
140	Luis Severino	NYM	@ATL/ @MIL	3 (@ATL=3 & @MIL=5)
141	Clarke Schmidt	NYY	BAL	3
142	Brady Basso	OAK	TEX/ @SEA	3 (both matchups)
143	JP Sears	OAK	@SEA	3
144	Taijuan Walker	PHI	CHC	3
145	Landen Roupp	SFG	STL	3
146	Richard Ellis	BOS	@TOR	2
147	Julian Aguiar	CIN	@CLE/ @CHC	2 (both matchups)
148	Cal Quantrill	COL	LAD	2
149	J.T. Ginn	OAK	TEX	2
150	Patrick Corbin	WSH	KCR	2
151	Trevor Williams	WSH	PHI	2