Starting Pitchers - Keeper League Rankings

[mweir145]

If Jake Peavy leaves the NL West, expect his value to drop. I wouldn't have him that high on that list.

[bigwords]

I have been asked to join a 14 team, basic 5 x 5 league with 28 roster spots. This is a keeper league where we will apparently keep 20 of our 28 players each year. It is a 5 year league. Our draft will be over the All-Star break weekend this year (first season being 2010) I have been playing fantasy football for 12 years but only baseball the last four or five and I don't claim to be an expert by any means. My team this year is in 9th place. Anyway I wanted to come up with good starting pitching rankings, here if my first copy. I probably need a lot of help with it!

1 Tim Lincecum SF
2 Johan Santana NYM
3 Jake Peavy SD
4 Zach Greinke KC
5 CC Sabathia NYY
6 Dan Haren ARZ
7 Roy Halladay TOR
8 Brandon Webb ARZ
9 Chad Billingsley LAD
10 Cliff Lee CLE
11 Justin Verlander DET
12 Erik Bedard SEA
13 Felix Hernandez SEA
14 James Shields TB
15 Yovani Gallardo MIL
16 Matt Cain SF
17 Josh Beckett BOS
18 David Price TB
19 Adam Wainwright STL
20 John Lackey LAA
21 Aaron Harrang CIN
22 Edison Volquez CIN
23 Matt Garza TB
24 Clayton Kershaw LAD
25 Rich Harden CHC
26 Jon Lester BOS
27 Josh Johnson FLA
28 Francisco Liriano MIN
29 Joba Chamberlain NYY
30 John Danks CWS
31 Ted Lilly CHC
32 Scott Kazmir TB
33 Max Sherzer ARZ
34 Rick Porcello DET
35 Ervin Santana LAA
36 Johnny Cueto CIN
37 Mark Buehrle CWS
38 Carlos Zambrano CHC
39 Javier Vazquez ATL
40 Stephen Strasburg WAS
41 Rickey Nolasco FLA
42 Jered Weaver LAA
43 Kevin Slowey MIN
44 Jair Jurrjens ATL
45 Tommy Hanson ATL
46 Derek Lowe LAD
47 Roy Oswalt HOU
48 Wandy Rodriguez HOU
49 Daisuke Matsuzaka BOS
50 A.J. Burnett NYY
51 Ubaldo Jimenez COL
52 Chris Volstad FLA
53 Madison Bumgarner SF
54 Brett Myers PHI
55 Paul Maholm PIT
56 Phil Hughes NYY
57 Brandon Morrow SEA
58 Trevor Cahill OAK
59 Chris Tillman BAL
60 Chris Carpenter STL
61 Ryan Dempster CHC
62 Chris Young SD
63 Wade Davis TB
64 Jeremy Guthrie BAL
65 Edwin Jackson DET
66 Gil Meche KC
67 Clay Bucholtz BOS
68 Brett Anderson OAK
69 Jeff Niemann TB
70 Neftali Feliz TEX
71 Randy Wolf LAD
72 Fausto Carmona CLE
73 Koji Uehara BAL
74 Justin Masterson BOS
75 Jonathon Sanchez SF
76 Michael Bowden BOS
77 Jordan Zimmerman WAS
78 Scott Baker MIN
79 Ben Sheets FA
80 Gavin Floyd CWS
81 Rich Hill BAL
82 Barry Zito SF
83 Zach Duke PIT
84 David Huff CLE
85 Brian Bannister KC
86 David Bush MIL
87 Aaron Laffey CLE
88 Chin-Meng Wang NYY
89 Ian Kennedy NYY
90 Carlos Carrasco PHI
91 Daniel Bard BOS
92 John Maine NYM
93 Joe Saunders LAA
94 Ian Snell PIT
95 Sean Marshall CHC
96 Dallas Braden OAK
97 Nick Blackburn MIN
98 Kevin Millwood TEX
99 Derek Holland TEX
100 James McDonald LAD

I think I'd have Kuroda somewhere. Maybe also some room for some injury guys with a bit of upside like Hudson and Marcum. If you got Bard on the list, you might as well consider Andrew Bailey. And I think I'd rather have a prospect like Brian Matusz than someone like Ian Kennedy.

[Cards07Champs]

Scherzer >> Kazmir.

[Syfo-Dyas]

It is way too early to have any kinda keeper ranking, cause it is greatly influenced by the first two month. For example Greinke is too high. He had a blazing start, but that was unreal. And he is Royals property 'til end of 2012.
BTW the whole list needs to be reworked. Buehrle over Vazquez blew my mind and stopped reading.
My first 4
Lincecum
Santana
Halladay
Billingsley
then
Peavy, Sabathia, Gallardo, Felix, Greinke not necessarily in this order.

[Hidehiko]

My first 4
Lincecum
Santana
Halladay
Billingsley

Agreed. Those 4 SPs are, IMO, the sure thing if I can keep any SPs

[High Inside Heater]

id take Javier Vazquez over A LOT of guys ranked ahead of him on this list.