Happy Monday, Razzball faithful!

The calendar has flipped to May! You know what that means! It’s time to wish you all a Happy Star Wars Day (week) and send best wishes for health and prosperity. May The Fourth be with Woo…er, You!

But while we’re on the topic of Woos…Did you ever hear the story of Darth Marmo the wise?

It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a fantasy baseball legend. 

Darth Marmo, a not-so-young fantasy baseball writer, was so powerful, he could use the force to create predictions. He had such a knowledge of the force that he could even keep the Starting Pitchers he cared about from dying…or at least from being hacked down by the ever-swinging Starting Pitcher Scythe of Doom.

Following Razzball fantasy baseball advice is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural. 

Ok, maybe not unnatural. But I did tell you to draft a certain Seattle Mariners pitcher who was going at a 140-ish ADP this Spring.  

And, admittedly, I would be lying if I said I predicted that Woo would be one of two healthy SPs remaining in the M’s rotation at the beginning of May. If you’re somehow rolling out an active roster of Starting Pitchers, with zero pickups or FAAB additions to replace injured arms, the force is strong with this one. Yes, you’ve somehow pulled off the ultimate Jedi mind trick. 

But can we acknowledge the gift that is a healthy AND productive Bryan Woo? Yep. Score one for the light side. We won’t dwell on dark side failures like Jared Jones, Grayson Rodriguez, Blake Snell, and…the list that seems to stretch off into a galaxy far far away.

Woo kicked it into hyper-drive Friday night in Texas, and force-choked the Rangers to the tune of 6.1 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 8 Ks. That bumped his record to 4-1 and lowered his already fantastic ratios to 2.58 (ERA) and 0.84 (WHIP).

Impressive…most impressive.

If we set all of the category-important numbers aside, I’m almost as excited about Woo’s pitch count. The 3rd year ‘veteran’ has managed to average (almost) 90 pitches per start. With his health being the biggest concern heading into the 2025 season, it sure looks like we’re well on our way to a breakout year with Seattle’s de facto ace.

Is the MarmoDarling Bryan Woo granted the rank of Jedi Master this week, or is he still just a member of the council?

Before we get to the goods, I’m sure you’re wondering…

You bet your Gungan gyatt, it is!

Well, here’s where I remind you to lock in your Razzball Fantasy Baseball Subscription. This should be your go-to reference for the entire season. The Streamonator is also a helpful resource when making lineup decisions. Rudy’s tools are well worth the price of admission. 

But if you don’t want to take my word for it, just ask this guy.

The Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2025

SP RANK	Name	Team	UP / DOWN	Notes
1	Paul Skenes	PIT		5 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 4 BB,  2 Ks, ERA at 2.74. “Um, I’m sorry, sir, it’s Skenes with One K, not Two”. One could argue that it’s time to knock Skenes from his perch here. It won’t happen yet, but the top of this ladder is starting to wobble.
2	Tarik Skubal	DET		19 Ks in his last 2 GS with just one earned run allowed. Guess who’s shaking the ladder.
3	Garrett Crochet	BOS		7 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 3 BB, 6 Ks. Garrett needled the Jays pretty badly in this one. EDIT: It really seems like half of these pitchers throw every Sunday while I’m writing. Crochet was back at it yesterday with 6 Ks and a solo homer allowed through 5 IP vs MIN.
4	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD		40 IP, 4 BB. That should be all we need to see, but the 13 BBs are respectable, and the 49 Ks are pretty solid too. Wow.
5	Cole Ragans	KC		Had his start last week skipped because of a sore lightsaber (groin strain). Scheduled to go today vs CWS.
6	Max Fried	NYY		7 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks. 6th win! It doesn’t matter if you (read: I) think the health will fail at some point, Fried is a must-start in every matchup and is well on his way to proving the Yankees weren’t wrong to dish out $200+ million for him last winter.
7	Michael King	SD		He threw a complete game shutout a month ago but hasn’t pitched 6 innings in any of his other six starts. In other news, do you want to see my nit collection? I picked them myself.
8	Zack Wheeler	PHI		6.2 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, BB, 7 Ks and a no-decision against WSH last week. See MacKenzie Gore below.
9	Hunter Greene	CIN		6 IP, ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 12 Ks! Hunter with the 12-gauge buckshot! A Dirty Dozen indeed.
10	Shota Imanaga	CHC		He left last week’s start in the 5th inning because of leg cramps after holding PIT scoreless. Looked good through 4 scoreless innings at MLW yesterday too. More Ks is the only wish here. EDIT: He took the loss after giving up 2 ER in 5.2 IP.
11	MacKenzie Gore	WSH		6 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, and 6 Ks. My note here was to cover the names and try to guess which one was Gore and which one was Wheeler. Gore allowed 2 HR, but that almost makes the 3 ER more impressive on the road against a tough PHI team.
12	Hunter Brown	HOU	UP	Is there anything this kid CAN’T do? What’s that? Pitch poorly? Touché. Another 9 Ks from last week’s lede, and we have two Hunters in the Top 12.
13	Pablo Lopez	MIN		A double dip this week for Pab-Lo. He gets BAL and SF, both at home.
14	Jacob deGrom	TEX		I caught the Nick Kurtz obsession bug, so I watched this game (vs ATH). deGrom shut the A’s down for 6 innings (0 ER) and allowed just 4 hits. The zero walks and 7 Ks were great too. He made it look easy in this one. EDIT: It was much of the same yesterday vs SEA. 5 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 3 Ks.
15	Joe Ryan	MIN		6 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 8 Ks. The War Room was all over Ryan this spring, and Ryan’s looking like he wants to prove the robot right.
16	Sonny Gray	STL		10 ER in his last 14 IP. Winless in three starts. I wouldn’t start sounding the alarm just yet. He gets PIT at home this week.
17	Logan Webb	SF		5 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 2.83. Ugggggh. He got a big boost last week. This knocks him down a bit.
18	Dylan Cease	SD		The ratios are gross, and he’s sitting with a 1-2 record in 7 GS.
19	Bryan Woo	SEA		More above!
20	Nick Pivetta	SD		5.1 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 1 BB, 9 Ks. The native of Victoria, BC won his 4th straight start last week and cruises into the Top 20 today.
21	Freddy Peralta	MLW		I watched a bit of his start against CWS last Tuesday. Other than the HR allowed to Benintendi and LouBob, he was solid. EDIT: Freddy was lifted from the game yesterday after 6 innings with groin soreness. The report says it was a ‘cautionary move’.
22	Kodai Senga	NYM		Senga got into trouble with the pitch count last week (4 IP, 87 pitches), but the ratios are still elite, and the Ks are there.
23	Bailey Ober	MIN		More below.
24	Jesus Luzardo	PHI		5.1 IP, 2 ER, 9 H, BB, 6 Ks. How this guy has just 3 wins in 7 GS is a mystery. He’s been great. A modest boost this week.
25	Framber Valdez	HOU		After winning his first start of the year, he’s gone 0-4 with a 5.29 ERA in 34 IP. The walks are still down, and the strikeouts are still there, but this isn’t the ace you were hoping for when you drafted him.
26	Logan Gilbert	SEA		More below.
27	Spencer Schwellenbach	ATL		Winless in his last five starts and another 6 ER game, this time against LAD (last was at TOR). The walks are still down and the strikeouts are still up, but he’s been getting hit.
28	Robbie Ray	SFG		Finally picked up his 4th win of the year last week after a couple of tough luck no-decisions. 7 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 8 Ks is as solid as it gets.
29	Carlos Rodon	NYY		Three wins in a row and 24 Ks in his last 19 IP. He gets SD at home today, which is a tough matchup, but heads to ATH next Sunday. Can he keep it up?!
30	Cristopher Sanchez	PHI		5 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 6 Ks, and his 3rd win. The biggest news is that he isn’t seriously hurt after the sore forearm scare.
31	Chris Sale	ATL		More below.
32	Drew Rasmussen	TB		5 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 3 Ks, ERA at 2.64. Ya, he’s fine. And the walks allowed are elite. I still don’t think he passes 120 IP, though.
35	Brady Singer	CIN		6 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 4 Ks, and somehow stuck with his first loss of the year. He starts at ATL today.
36	Jack Flaherty	DET		The two-start week for Flaherty was not one for the ages. In 10.2 IP, he gave up 8 ER and 14 H. The good news is he only walked three and struck out 12 (total). He gets the Rangers at home this week.
37	Shane Baz	TB		5.2 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 3.86. I’d say this was a bit of a hiccup, but it was more of a Jabba the Hutt belch.
38	Corbin Burnes	ARI		6 IP, ER, 4 H, (5 BBs), 3 Ks. A good start (if your eyes can’t read anything in parentheses). Shoulder fatigue means he misses his scheduled start today, and I’d bench him this week at least until we get some more news.
39	Luis Castillo	SEA		All of this Woo’ing going on while Luis Castillo is quietly posting quality starts. He’s won two of his last three games allowing just one earned run in 12 innings.
40	Tyler Mahle	CIN		Heading to the boss for today’s Mahle quote: “6 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA 1.19. You were right in March, a Rangers starter is unhittable this year. Only it’s Mahle, not deGrom.”
41	Casey Mize	DET		7 IP, 4 ER, 7 H, 2 BB, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.70. I mentioned in the Kikuchi note below that I watched this game, and both pitchers struggled to command their pitches. Mize still managed to post his 5th win (and third in a row).
42	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX		6 IP, 1 ER, 6 H, 0 BB, 8 Ks, ERA at 2.11. He went pitch for pitch with Luis Severino in last week’s edition of “Who’s more underrated?”
43	Brandon Pfaadt	ARI		Pfaadt was on a heater of his own, posting 5 wins in a row. I felt guilty about not moving him up this week…until I saw that he got blown up on Saturday in Philly.
44	Zac Gallen	ARI		6 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.93. This is good! But he’s gonna have to put up more of these to get his fantasy managers to buy back in.
45	Tylor Megill	NYM		19 Ks in his last 11.2 IP means Megill moves up a bit this week.
46	Dustin May	LAD		I nearly dropped him yesterday in the Perts League ahead of his ATL start. For the record, I have too many SPs there, but 10 ER in his last 10.2 IP with a half dozen walks isn’t great, and I wouldn’t fault you for dropping him if you needed an RP or bat to replace an injured player. EDIT: 5.2 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks may not buy May much more time this May.
47	Seth Lugo	KC		Two starts this week! Both at home vs CWS, then BOS.
48	David Peterson	NYM		5 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.06. Grey mentioned the GB rate, and that’s likely what has been keeping the ratios down. His 2.51 BB/9  leads Mets starters.
49	Aaron Nola	PHI		Back to back strong starts move Nola out of the bottom 50.
50	Kevin Gausman	TOR		A nice one-hit, 6-inning shutout from Gausman on Saturday with one walk and 9 Ks. More of these and less of the previous two road starts (at NYY and HOU) will go a long way if he wants to stay in the Top 50.
51	Kris Bubic	KC		If we covered his name up and showed the line, people would ask why he’s not a Top 30 starter. To be honest, I boosted him twice when I wrote this up yesterday and he should probably be even higher than he is here.
52	Bryce Miller	SEA		More below.
53	Spencer Strider	ATL		The good news is it’s a hamstring injury. The bad news is he hasn’t been on a mound in two weeks and it sounds like the best case scenario is a return at the end of May.
54	Ryan Pepiot	TB		A tough luck loss last week in NYY, Pepiot needed 88 pitches to get through 4.1 innings. He kept the walks down (2) but unfortunately he kept the Ks down too (1).
55	Tanner Bibee	CLE		7 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, 5 Ks, and, more importantly, his second strong start IN A ROW! He took on the Jays yesterday, so I know what my guess would be as to what the outcome should be. I’ll give you a hint – I didn’t expect him to put up back-to-back good starts in his last two. EDIT: 5 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 3 Ks. That’s decent solid starts in a row.
56	Jackson Jobe	DET		Um…not to point out the negatives, but a popular “preseason sleeper” has yet to pitch into the 7th inning this year. He’s also posted a 14:18 walk-to-strikeout ratio in 24 IP.
57	Clay Holmes	NYM		Two straight wins with zero walks in 11 IP. The 5 Ks (toital) isn’t great, but the good news is he’s recorded a quality start in two of his last three games.
58	Reese Olson	DET		Tough luck in his last two starts cost him a shot at a couple of wins. 15 Ks in his last 11.1 IP would be a lot nicer if it didn’t come with a half dozen walks.
59	Roki Sasaki	LAD		Roki recorded his first MLB victory last week…in his 7th start. He hasn’t been terrible by any means, but a lot of people have been disappointed by the ROI so far.
60	Taj Bradley	TB		7 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 2 Ks last week. A solid start. I said it a few weeks ago. Taj will be a great SP at some point in the future. Everything is there, it’s just not harnessed yet. And, for the record, I typed that up fully expecting him to go out and strike out 15 in his next start like it came out of some cosmic spite cloud. EDIT Taj won his third of the year yesterday at NYY, but the trademark strikeouts were not there (1).
61	Griffin Canning	NYM		5 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 3 BB, and 5 Ks. There have been a few pleasant surprises in the league after the first 30-ish games. If you had Griffin Canning sitting at 4-1 after six starts, I’d like to ask you if I could borrow your time machine. The only knock is he’s only pitched 6 innings in one start.
62	Max Meyer	MIA		‘Member when I asked if he was breaking out? ‘Member when 14 of his 18 outs two weeks ago were strikeouts? Ya, I don’t remember that either. Back-to-back 5 ER stinkers with ZERO Ks in his start last week will make people forget that 14 K day pretty quickly.
63	Tyler Anderson	LAA		6 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 5 Ks, ERA at 2.67. I can’t help but feel like he’s a stick of dynamite just waiting to blow up, but he’s proven me wrong for over a year, so … I guess it has a very long fuse.
64	Luis Severino	ATH		5 IP, 1 ER, 8 H, 1 BBs, ERA at 3.30. He went pitch for pitch with Nathan Eovaldi in last week’s edition of “Who’s more underrated?”
65	Hayden Wesneski	HOU		Skipped last week as he “rested an injury”. He should pitch at MLW this week.
66	Andrew Abbott	CIN		Abbott’s start got shortened because of rain last week. 9 walks in his last two starts (total) isn’t ideal.
67	Gavin Williams	CLE		More below.
68	Brayan Bello	BOS		He won his first two starts, then pitched even better in his third (no-decision). One of Grey’s buys last Friday.
69	Matthew Liberatore	STL		Liberatore got beat by the rain in the same game that cost Andrew Abbott a shot at a win. The Ks are there, but the most impressive stat is the three walks in 30 IP. A big boost this week.
70	Bowden Francis	TOR		3 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 5.28. There’s a pope joke in here somewhere but, I must confess, I can’t find it. EDIT: Yesterday’s game against CLE wasn’t as bad as the 5-HR debacle from last week, but it was still not good.
71	Zach Eflin	BAL		Eflin was slated to pitch in a rehab game yesterday. The O’s are hoping he can pitch on Saturday when he’s eligible for activation (vs LAA).
72	Matthew Boyd	CHC		5 IP, 2 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 6 Ks, ERA at 2.70. Just a pint of Wacha-lite over here.
73	Jose Soriano	LAA		Soriano had his best game since the first start of the year (6 IP, 0 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 5 Ks) but couldn’t record a win. Back-to-back starts with just one walk issued is the positive here.
74	Chris Bassitt	TOR		5.1 IP, 3 ER, 7 H, 4 Ks. Three homers allowed. At least they were solo shots. Barf emoji.
75	Jack Leiter	TEX		Gave up 6 ER in 4.1 IP, the majority of which was courtesy of Cal Raleigh and his two home runs (one of which was a grand slam). It’s another tough start this week at Fenway.
76	Jose Quintana	MLW		3 HR allowed against the Cubs derailed Quintana’s quest for a quint in the win column. No? Ya, that was a bit of a stretch.
77	Jose Berrios	TOR		6.2 IP, 2 ER,7 H, 1 BB, 8 Ks, ERA at 3.98. It’s like Bibee, Keller, and Berrios all run the same roller coaster at the Jekyll and Hyde theme park.
78	Tony Gonsolin	LAD		Slides in this week in place of Taijuan Walker. The latter is headed to the bullpen to make room for the return of Ranger Suarez  (more on him below). 6 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 0 BB, 9 Ks. This is as good a return as we could have hoped for.
79	Colin Rea	CHC		More below.
80	Lucas Giolito	BOS		6 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 7 Ks. Similar to Tony Gonsolin, this is as good a return as we could have hoped for.
81	Andrew Heaney	PIT		4.2 IP, 4 ER vs Cubs last week, then another 4 ER through 3.2 IP yesterday vs SD. The regression fairies have arrived.
82	Walker Buehler	BOS		Off to the IL with right shoulder inflammation. There’s news that he isn’t expected to be out long, but I wouldn’t bet a lot of money on him returning to full health in a week.
83	Ronel Blanco	HOU		5 IP, 3 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks, ERA at 5.08. He’s close to a strikeout an inning, but the ratios need to be cleaned up before we move him up much higher than he is here.
84	Landen Roupp	SFG		More below.
85	Sandy Alcantara	MIA		2.2 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 8.31. More like Al-TRASHCAN-tara. I keep waiting for the ‘ineffective list’ announcement.
86	Clarke Schmidt	NYY		Scratched last week with “left side soreness”. Scheduled to throw tomorrow.
87	Michael Wacha	KC		Not enough earned runs to call it a blowout, but not enough scoreless innings to record a victory. That’s the recipe for a Wacha stew.
88	Ryan Gusto	HOU		He’s won two of his last three starts and struck out a season high 6 last Tuesday. The only worry here is that HOU has some SPs getting ready to return, so Gusto could end up demoted or squeezed out to the bullpen.
89	Lance McCullers	HOU		Returned to face CWS yesterday. He was sad to learn that Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell, two infielders who were in the lineup for his last start, were no longer on the roster, but after that he was fine.
90	Justin Verlander	SFG		6.1 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 1 BB, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.38. At home against the Rockies? Mehhhhh.
91	Jeffrey Springs	ATH		6 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 K, ERA at 4.98. He got the win in this one. And the scoreless outing helps shave some damage off of those ratios, but…One. Strikeout.
92	Yusei Kikuchi	LAA		5 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 1 BB, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.21. The one walk was a breath of fresh air, but Kikuchi’s command was off in this one. The control was there (if that makes sense), but he left two changeups up in the zone that Javier Baez and Gleyber Torres both mashed for home runs.
93	Tomoyuki Sugano	BAL		5 IP, 0 ER, 8 Ks last Monday and 6 IP, 2 ER, 4 Ks Friday night. Sugano must have caught wind that he was in danger of dropping off the list if he didn’t up his strikeout game.
94	Mitch Keller	PIT		Ugh.
95	Grant Holmes	ATL		9 strikeouts is much better start than his last start. He gets CIN at home this week.
96	Jameson Taillon	CHC		Picked up his first win in 5 GS. See Wacha, Michael.
97	Will Warren	NYY		Not including yesterday’s game, he hasn’t gone more than five innings in any of his 6 GS. I dropped him for Ryan Weathers in a home mixed league. If you’re holding him for ATH next week, I get it, but it would have to be a very encouraging start to move him anywhere but down.
98	Tanner Houck	BOS		7 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 0 BB, 6 Ks, ERA at 6.38. Oh! He must have been mad about torpedoing in the list last week.
99	Merrill Kelly	ARI		Kelly was yanked after 5 innings Friday night when his hamstring locked up. He’s expected to make his start vs NYM on Tuesday.
100	Ranger Suarez	PHI		This week it’s just a placeholder. He got steamrolled by ARI yesterday but let’s give him a couple more starts and reassess later.

JUMPERS (These are some of the players who jumped up the rankings this week)

Bailey Ober – Don’t look now, but someone has won his last four starts and put together a line that almost rivals Hunter Brown’s. Ober has allowed more than one run in just one of his last six starts. The ratios aren’t perfect, but that’s more due to the 8 ER debacle from March 30th than anything else. It’s also a good example of how tough it can be to fix destroyed ratios after one meltdown.

Chris Sale – 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, 10 Ks. Come on. A line like that and still no win to show for it? Smh. The good news is that this is the Cy Young Sale we’ve been looking for since the start of the season. Sale gets CIN at home tomorrow, then heads to PIT for the two-start week.

Colin Rea – 6 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 1.46. He has a 1.8 BB/9. I was ready to remove Rea this week, but he’s been subtly solid since joining the rotation. 4 GS, 18.2 IP, 4 ER, with respectable strikeout totals and ratios, means he moves up a bit this week.

DUMPERS (With apologies to Cal Raleigh, these are some of the big dumpers in the rankings this week).

Logan Gilbert – I’ve seen news that he’ll return in August, and I’ve read that the team is hopeful that he returns by the end of May. Obviously, the sooner the better is the hope here. He’ll stay on our list until we hear definitively otherwise, but he can’t be a Top 20 arm right now with that kind of uncertainty.

Tyler Glasnow – Speaking of pitcher injuries (and there are PLENTY to speak about), we can’t go too far into the realm of the constantly injured without mentioning “Mr. Glass” himself…

Oh wait. That’s the wrong Mr. Glass photo. Or is it?

Talk about the Charlie Brown football gif. Do we admit that we’re disappointed with Mr. Glass, now? Or do we just accept that there’s no way he’ll be back when he’s eligible to return (June 1st)?  Either way he’s been removed from the Top 100 list.

Bryce Miller – 5 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 5 BB, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.52. Five shutout innings and a half dozen Ks is what we’re looking for…but where tee eff did those walks come from? He walked 45 batters in 180.1 innings last year. This year he has 19 walks in just 30.2 innings. There was news that he told an MLB reporter that his back locked up in this start and that he also had “some arm soreness” at the beginning of the season. This may be much ado about nothing, but it’s not great news for those of us who drafted him expecting him to be a breakout ace this year.

Gavin Williams – He needed 61 pitches to get through two innings against Minnesota last Monday when he gave up 4 ER, on 7 H, and 2 BB with just 2 Ks. Saturday night in Toronto felt like it could be a more promising night…until this…

First pitch, first home run of the season for Bo Bichette ?

— MLB (Bot) (@mlbbot.bsky.social) 2025-05-03T19:23:27.000Z

Dan Schulman kind of nailed it there at the end: “Two starts in a row Gavin Williams gives up a home run on the first pitch he throws”. Yes, Gavin gave up fewer earned runs (2) than he did in the Monday start. But he walked FIVE (!) Blue Jays in this game and needed 100 pitches to get through 4 innings. The 9 strikeouts are nice, but that feels like putting a sparkly bow on a mound of cow manure and saying it’s pretty.

Landen Roupp – 4.1 IP, 4 ER, 7 H, 3 BB, 4 Ks, ERA at 5.10. I hate to bring this up (meaning here it comes), but two weeks ago, some people gave flak because they felt that Roupp was too low at SP83. Now, I would be surprised to hear the same complaints as he settles back in where he belongs. This is a lesson in rookie roofies. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk (aka Grey’s pet barking at the mailman).

STUMPERS (These names might stump you as to why they aren’t on the Top 100…yet. Some of these guys are close).

JT Ginn

Erick Fedde

Joe Boyle 

Jake Irvin

Logan Henderson

Jordan Hicks

Miles Mikolas

Zebby Matthews 

Nick Martinez

Edward Cabrera

Zack Littell

Tobias Myers 

Shane Smith

Osvaldo Bido

Logan Allen 

Luis L. Ortiz

JP Sears

AJ Smith Shawver

Michael Lorenzen – nearly moved in for Eduardo Rodriguez…then gave up 4 HR in BAL.

Ben Lively

Noah Cameron

Gunnar Hoglund

David Festa

BUMPERS (Injured starters or minor league guys who could or would bump others off the list if they were active on the big league roster).

Shane McClanahan

Jared Jones

Brandon Woodruff

George Kirby

Gerrit Cole

Luis Gil

Spencer Arrighetti

Justin Steele

John Means

Shane Bieber

Eury Perez

Blake Snell – shut down from throwing program.

Cody Bradford

Shohei Ohtani (SP)

Richard Fitts

Nestor Cortes

Yu Darvish

George Kirby

Tyler Glasnow

Ryan Weathers – should replace a bottom feeder next week.

WHEE! – These players vaulted onto the Top 100 list this week.

Tony Gonsolin

Ranger Suarez

Lucas Giolito

Lance McCullers

OOF! – These players fell off the Top 100 list this week.

Tyler Glasnow

Quinn Priester

Taijuan Walker

Mitchell Parker – 11 ER in his last 9 IP.

Eduardo Rodriguez – the strikeouts are still there, and I wrote this before he pitched yesterday, but it’s not enough to keep him up this week. He’d be SP101-105 FWIW.

And before we go, I shared this with our fellow writers in the Discord. It’s from last week when I took my boys to see the re-released of Revenge of the Sith on April 30th. The only thing that can top the dream mashup of Star Wars and Razzball is getting a chance to watch a film you thought you’d never share in a theatre with your own kids 20+ years after the initial release.

Happy Revenge of the 5th, everyone.

That’s all for this week! I hope you enjoyed it!  Drop some comments in the chat if you’re feeling extra fired up about some of the names I do (or don’t) have here. Have a great week!

 

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