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“Crisco, Bardol, Vagisil: any one of em will give you another two to three inches drop off your curveball.”

This immortal moment comes courtesy of Eddie Harris in the transcendent classic, Major League

In this exchange with young fireballer Rick Vaughn, Harris articulates the typical path for an aging pitcher. 

“Haven’t got an arm like yours. Gotta put anything on it I can find.” 

Wily oldsters pick up tricks like Robert Kraft to help themselves keep up in a young man’s game, and they seem to be keeping (and/or setting) the pace better than ever. Blending the fire of youth with the wisdom of experience is no small task, but we’ll try to do just that here today, synthesizing short and long term value to build rankings prescient enough to help any dynasty leaguer build his own double three-peat.

So throw me a line if you’re seeing an angle I’m not. This project is on-going and stretches all the way back to early March when I met some oldster moving plutonium out of the trunk of his DeLorian.

Rank Player Age Team
1 Gerrit Cole 29 NYY
2 Walker Buehler 25 LAD
3 Jack Flaherty 24 STL
4 Shane Bieber 24 CLE
5 Jacob deGrom 31 NYM
6 Shohei Ohtani 25 LAA
7 Mike Clevinger 29 CLE
8 Lucas Giolito 25 CHW
9 Luis Castillo 27 CIN
10 Blake Snell 27 TB
11 Tyler Glasnow 26 TB
12 Jesus Luzardo 22 OAK
13 Stephen Strasburg 31 WAS
14 Chris Paddack 24 SD
15 Mike Soroka 22 ATL
16 Julio Urias 23 LAD
17 MacKenzie Gore 21 SD
18 Clayton Kershaw 32 LAD
19 Chris Sale 31 BOS
20 Frankie Montas 27 OAK
21 Max Scherzer 35 WAS
22 Justin Verlander 37 HOU
23 Trevor Bauer 29 CIN
24 Nate Pearson 23 TOR
25 Brandon Woodruff 27 MIL
26 Aaron Nola 26 PHI
27 Jose Berrios 25 MIN
28 Patrick Corbin 30 WAS
29 Zac Gallen 24 ARI
30 Yu Darvish 33 CHC
31 Noah Syndergaard 27 NYM
32 Tarik Skubal 23 DET
33 Sonny Gray 30 CIN
34 Eduardo Rodriguez 27 BOS
35 Charlie Morton 36 TB
36 A.J. Puk 25 OAK
37 Zack Greinke 36 HOU
38 Forrest Whitley 22 HOU
39 Dinelson Lamet 27 SD
40 Matt Manning 22 DET
41 Spencer Howard 23 PHI
42 Casey Mize 23 DET
43 Max Fried 26 ATL
44 Luis Patino 20 SD
45 Michael Kopech 24 CHW
46 Brailyn Marquez 21 CHC
47 Asa Lacy 20 ??
48 Kyle Hendricks 30 CHC
49 Madison Bumgarner 30 ARI
50 Luke Weaver 26 ARI
51 Lance McCullers Jr. 26 HOU
52 Jameson Taillon 28 PIT
53 Hyun-Jin Ryu 33 TOR
54 James Paxton 31 NYY
55 Jose Urquidy 25 HOU
56 Brendan McKay 24 TB
57 German Marquez 25 COL
58 Kenta Maeda 32 MIN
59 Joe Musgrove 27 PIT
60 Zack Wheeler 29 PHI
61 Lance Lynn 32 TEX
62 Corey Kluber 34 TEX
63 Carlos Carrasco 33 CLE
64 Jon Gray 28 COL
65 George Kirby 22 SEA
66 Edward Cabrera 22 MIA
67 Emerson Hancock 20 ??
68 Domingo German 27 NYY
69 Sean Manaea 28 OAK
70 Mike Foltynewicz 28 ATL
71 Mike Minor 32 TEX
72 Michael Pineda 31 MIN
73 Simeon Woods-Richardson 19 TOR
74 Carlos Martinez 28 STL
75 Jake Odorizzi 30 MIN
76 Josiah Gray 22 LAD
77 Dustin May 22 LAD
78 Robbie Ray 28 ARI
79 Hunter Greene 20 CIN
80 Nick Lodolo 22 CIN
81 Aaron Civale 24 CLE
82 Yonny Chirinos 26 TB
83 Matthew Boyd 29 DET
84 Clarke Schmidt 24 NYY
85 Sandy Alcantara 24 MIA
86 Sixto Sanchez 21 MIA
87 Masahiro Tanaka 31 NYY
88 Josh James 27 HOU
89 David Price 34 LAD
90 Caleb Smith 27 MIA
91 Blake Walston 18 ARI
92 Andrew Heaney 28 LAA
93 Logan Gilbert 23 SEA
94 Alek Manoah 22 TOR
95 Reid Detmers 20 ??
96 Max Meyer 21 ??
97 Daniel Lynch 23 KC
98 Josh Lindblom 32 MIL
99 Grayson Rodriguez 20 BAL
100 Alex Wood 29 LAD

 

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