Do you want a previous update to the list? Come with me on Monday at 1:00 p.m. ET as I broadcast live its creation every week! Do you have any questions? My “office hours” are on Twitch 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET Monday – Friday + the aforementioned The List stream. For each version of The List, I have a set of rules to describe my thinking process and how to best use these rankings. Please note: Let’s go to the tables. First are all our injured compatriots: I made a decision this year: I removed the “Preseason grades” and changed the “grades” to “Relative Ranking” as it will be more consistent from week to week – The grades change while the relative ranking does not. Understand that “70-80” does not guarantee that the player will be in exactly that range when he returns. The rankings are 100% relative to the landscape and while this chart reflects where they would sit in a vacuum, it is a fluid creature. Sometimes there are too many options, sometimes I want to see them healthy and stretched again, and other times we are hungry for pitchers and they jump higher than “70-80”. It is a loose reference point and why it is called “relative ranking”. I hope it helps! One last point about this – pitchers often need an extra week or two to grow as soon as they return to large. That’s why Still ILL exists and the “relative order” you see is when these guys have shaken off their rust. Will they return to normal in their first start or will they need some? I have no idea! These classes should show what I would expect when they fully return to normal. Now let’s take a look at the pitchers I thought of for the Top 100, but I did not succeed: Other pitchers I considered (Not sorted in order) Finally, I highly recommend you check out my daily SP review that describes all the pitcher performances during the season or if you want a primer for most of these pitchers, you can see my 40,000 words from the pre-season via of my Top 224 Starting Pitchers for 2022 since February. Both will help you understand my general thoughts about most of these kids (especially the collection!), As I just can not detail everything about 100 pitchers in these notes each week. Ranking notes

This is a reminder to read these notes, as they will tell you a lot about why “someone went up” or “why is he in #X ?!” Seriously. Read the notes.

The top tier remains the same this week, as these pitchers are addictive and make us feel addicted. With Joe Musgrove hitting COVID-IL, there is an innate +1 for Tier 2 guys, though I chose to move Kevin Gausman between Carlos Rodón and Alek Manoah this week. It was a bit funk and Rodón looks back to his usual dominant ways.

In the third level, I decided to group all the AGA arms to one level before the Tier 4 hit. Welcome back Aaron Nola, Shane Bieber and Luis Severino, we missed you. I picked up Clayton Khershaw, as he is another who stepped down from his IL tenure and shows signs of the man we want to be.

Meanwhile, Lucas Giolito and Max Fried take a short dip. Nothing new from Fried – this is a product of the rise of Bieber and Nola – while Giolito had realized the fall. His change was very different from what we have seen in previous seasons and while I bet he is back in form, the fog is pulling in this week’s standings. It’s time to move Shohei Ohtani to third division, given his consistency on the hill now that we have played over 60 games this year. Support him.

Leading the fourth tier is Julio Urías, who boasts a remarkable 2.56 ERA and 1.03 WHIP, and I am tempted to push him to Tier 3, but the low 5.4 innings per start combined with a low 22 % of strike keep him in Tier 4. I’m glad that Chris Bassitt’s seemingly outperformed him in May and I gave him an increase back to the Top 20. Volume is important and Bassitt will continue to be …