Please help support the Day by Day Database with a donation during the Baseball Musings Pledge Drive.

Baseball Musings Day By Day Database, Bill James Starting Pitcher Historical Rankings

Enter morning of date, then click Submit to see pitchers ranked.

Rank	Pitcher	Rating
1	Steve Carlton	551.54
2	Steve Rogers	524.96
3	Ron Guidry	501.32
4	Jack Morris	499.98
5	Don Sutton	498.71
6	Dennis Eckersley	493.83
7	Mario Soto	487.55
8	Fernando Valenzuela	486.63
9	Nolan Ryan	486.34
10	Joe Niekro	473.79
11	Len Barker	473.58
12	Dennis Leonard	472.91
13	Tommy John	472.61
14	Dave Stieb	469.01
15	Larry Gura	468.47
16	Phil Niekro	463.63
17	Scott McGregor	461.68
18	Tom Seaver	461.03
19	Scott Sanderson	457.69
20	Floyd Bannister	457.57
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
21	Britt Burns	457.19
22	Jerry Reuss	455.79
23	Pete Vuckovich	455.73
24	Mike Norris	455.17
25	Steve McCatty	454.66
26	Milt Wilcox	454.15
27	Ken Forsch	453.96
28	Bert Blyleven	450.98
29	Mike Flanagan	450.42
30	Rick Langford	448.44
31	Bob Forsch	445.58
32	Dan Petry	444.21
33	Bill Gullickson	443.96
34	Burt Hooton	442.88
35	Frank Tanana	439.77
36	Vida Blue	438.24
37	Mike Krukow	436.08
38	Dick Ruthven	433.38
39	Dennis Martinez	430.43
40	Bob Welch	427.1
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
41	Moose Haas	426.28
42	Fergie Jenkins	425.76
43	Lary Sorensen	422.13
44	Gaylord Perry	422.07
45	Geoff Zahn	421.66
46	Matt Keough	417.44
47	Bob Knepper	417.13
48	Jim Palmer	411.98
49	Dave Righetti	409.07
50	Paul Splittorff	407.59
51	Mike Caldwell	407.17
52	Frank Pastore	404.96
53	Jim Clancy	404.94
54	Rick Honeycutt	404.5
55	Doc Medich	403.58
56	Luis Leal	399.58
57	Bruce Berenyi	398.1
58	Rick Reuschel	397.64
59	John Denny	395.61
60	Larry Christenson	395.36
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
61	Joaquin Andujar	394.9
62	Steve Trout	392.63
63	Juan Eichelberger	392.55
64	Richard Dotson	391.73
65	Tim Lollar	389.57
66	Charlie Hough	387.18
67	Rudy May	386.54
68	Doyle Alexander	386.3
69	Jerry Koosman	385.39
70	Rick Mahler	381.53
71	Vern Ruhle	379.83
72	Mike Witt	379.18
73	Mike Torrez	379.09
74	Ray Burris	378.57
75	Steve Mura	376.96
76	Tom Underwood	376.09
77	Gene Nelson	374.74
78	Tommy Boggs	374.44
79	Rick Waits	373.09
80	Jim Beattie	372.2
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
81	Rick Rhoden	366.57
82	Charlie Lea	365.72
83	Bill Laskey	364.54
84	Pat Zachry	363.65
85	Doug Bird	363.61
86	Mike Scott	363.22
87	John Candelaria	362.0
88	Dennis Lamp	361.98
89	La Marr Hoyt	361.56
90	John Montefusco	360.8
91	Dickie Noles	359.07
92	Albert Williams	359.05
93	Rich Gale	358.47
94	Steve Renko	355.14
95	Bob Ojeda	353.95
96	Pete Redfern	351.69
97	Bob Walk	351.3
98	Bruce Kison	351.09
99	Ross Baumgarten	351.08
100	Randy Jones	351.04
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
101	Charlie Puleo	349.14
102	John Tudor	348.51
103	Jon Matlack	348.46
104	Roger Erickson	348.24
105	Jim Bibby	347.43
106	Pete Falcone	347.43
107	Brad Havens	346.87
108	Randy Lerch	344.35
109	John Martin	344.05
110	John Curtis	341.57
111	Randy Martz	340.23
112	Sammy Stewart	337.31
113	Bob McClure	336.36
114	Don Robinson	335.39
115	Chuck Rainey	334.03
116	Rick Sutcliffe	333.57
117	Atlee Hammaker	332.59
118	Chris Welsh	330.6
119	Eddie Solomon	328.33
120	Dave LaPoint	327.25
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
121	Jim Gott	326.74
122	Tom Griffin	326.52
123	Bruce Hurst	325.06
124	Dave Stewart	325.05
125	Dan Schatzeder	324.74
126	Angel Moreno	324.41
127	Dave Frost	322.54
128	Mike Morgan	321.44
129	Al Holland	321.02
130	Allen Ripley	320.87
131	Alan Fowlkes	320.24
132	Steve Stone	319.16
133	Larry Pashnick	318.99
134	Renie Martin	318.97
135	Mike Moore	318.97
136	Bobby Castillo	318.6
137	Joe Cowley	318.39
138	Ken Dayley	317.57
139	Andy Rincon	317.41
140	Darrell Jackson	316.07
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
141	Glenn Abbott	315.54
142	Greg Harris	315.42
143	Danny Darwin	313.66
144	Mike Chris	313.28
145	Pat Underwood	312.18
146	John Stuper	311.91
147	Mark Bomback	311.7
148	Jim Slaton	311.16
149	Manny Sarmiento	310.76
150	Marty Bystrom	310.67
151	Ted Power	310.6
152	Jerry Garvin	310.44
153	Keith Creel	309.44
154	Ed Whitson	308.79
155	Bo McLaughlin	308.08
156	Charlie Leibrandt	308.06
157	Jerry Ujdur	307.88
158	Craig Swan	306.47
159	Dan Larson	306.36
160	John Bohnet	306.35
Rank	Pitcher	Rating
161	Terry Felton	305.73
162	David Palmer	305.64
163	Jesse Orosco	305.09
164	Ron Reed	304.8
165	Tom Brennan	303.98
166	Dave Schmidt	303.72
167	Paul Moskau	303.5
168	Larry McWilliams	303.38
169	Dave Rozema	303.36
170	Steve Bedrosian	303.18
171	Frank Viola	302.82
172	Jack O'Connor	302.24
173	Joe Price	301.98
174	Tom Filer	300.77
175	Kevin Saucier	300.64
176	Pete Filson	300.13

The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at 20 Sunset Rd., Newark, DE 19711. Newer data was purchased from Baseball Info Solutions.

Baseball Musings home
Day by Day Database

None