SPR
SPR is a historical Starting Pitcher data grading system that grades each pitcher's individual start from 1898-Present.
Last 3 starts movement versus 2026 season average.
Three 2026 starters versus a random season average and the 2026 league SPR average.
Note: Historical homepage boards emphasize non-dead-ball era lists.
Compare 2026 arms against legends by early-career path, SPR Grade, peak seasons, and career standards.
Three random historical careers versus a random season average and lifetime career average.
Daily Update
All July 2, 2026 starting pitcher grades.
2026
Real-time starting pitcher trends and ratings from the active 2026 SPR data export.
Historical
Random historical seasons, player comparisons, and legendary SPR scorecards from 1898–2025.
NCAA SPR
SPR database for NCAA Division I college starting pitchers.
View Full NCAA Rankings →NCAA SPR
Sortable college and high school pitching rankings from the loaded SPR draft spreadsheet.
SPR Game Log
Minor League SPR
A separate SPR database for minor league starting pitchers only.
Minor League SPR
Complete minor league starting pitcher rankings. This database is separated from MLB SPR leaderboards.
Minor League SPR
Start-by-start SPR log from the separate minor league database.
Current Season
Every current 2026 starting pitcher with a loaded age of 25 or younger. SPR Pro or BR + SPR Bundle access is required to enter this page.
Current Season
Full qualifying 2026 SPR board from the current public workbook export.
Pitcher Search
Compare pitchers or search current 2026 pitchers and historical SPR records.
Player Search
Historical Add-On
Compare current SPR pitchers against different decades using same-career-stage seasons, SPR Grade, peak year, career average, and the loaded SPR database.
Historical Seasons
Select a current MLB franchise to view its best pitcher seasons from the loaded SPR database.
SPR History
Career SPR summaries from the historical workbook export.
Historical Starts
Sortable list of top individual starts in the SPR database, ranked by single-start SPR grade. This clean test view uses only confirmed fields from the current mainframe.
Historical Career by Team
Restrictions: 1898–2025 only. Players must have at least 5 qualifying seasons with the listed team, and each counted season must include 20+ starts. Only seasons with that team count toward the displayed team career SPR. Players appear for one team only. 2026 players are excluded from this board.
Standalone team-by-team list of the best team-represented pitching careers by SPR grade.
Pitcher Search
Alphabetical player list. Type a name to narrow it down.
Independent Baseball Research
A different way to measure baseball greatness, built one start at a time.
Unlike traditional statistics that evaluate a pitcher only after an entire season has been completed, Starting Pitcher Rating evaluates every individual start. Each performance receives an SPR grade based on the quality of that day's pitching, allowing pitchers to be measured by the consistency and quality of their performances over time.
The SPR database currently spans every Major League season from 1898 through 2026, creating one of the largest game-by-game historical starting pitcher databases available.
Traditional baseball statistics are built by accumulating season totals. While season totals are incredibly valuable, they often hide how a pitcher actually performed throughout the season.
Two pitchers may finish with identical ERAs or WAR while taking completely different paths to get there. One pitcher may perform consistently over six months, while another alternates between dominant outings and difficult starts.
By evaluating every individual start, SPR measures consistency alongside dominance. Every performance contributes to a pitcher's overall SPR average, creating another way to study pitchers across careers, seasons, franchises, and baseball history.
Starting Pitcher Rating allows baseball fans to explore more than a century of pitching performances through searchable leaderboards, player pages, historical rankings, team rankings, era comparisons, and daily start grades.
Whether you're researching Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Martinez, Clayton Kershaw, or your favorite pitcher from childhood, SPR is designed to make baseball history easy to explore.
Many users simply enjoy taking a trip through baseball history and rediscovering forgotten greats from every generation.
Starting Pitcher Rating is designed to complement traditional statistics by providing another lens through which baseball fans can compare pitchers from every era. The rankings are not opinion-based. Public pages display final grades and rankings while the underlying formula remains proprietary.
Starting Pitcher Rating is independently researched, developed, and maintained by one baseball enthusiast with a passion for the history and statistics of the game.
Every player page, game grade, historical ranking, and daily update is built and maintained independently. We feel confident in our data and take tremendous pride in the accuracy of the work, but occasional errors can occur — particularly during the active 2026 season as new games are processed each day.
Our goal is to complete daily updates by 10:00 AM Eastern Time following the previous day's games. On occasion, larger game schedules, technical issues, source-data corrections across the industry, or additional verification may delay an update.
The 1898–2025 historical database has been extensively researched, audited, and verified through numerous reviews. If you believe you have found an error in the current season or elsewhere on the website, please email startingpitcherrating@gmail.com with the player name, game date, and a brief description of the potential issue.
Batter Rating (BR) is a completely separate database dedicated exclusively to hitters. BR uses its own proprietary rating system and membership, allowing baseball fans to study offensive performances with the same game-by-game philosophy used throughout Starting Pitcher Rating.
Stripe checkout, registration, account emails, and BCC tracking stay centralized through Batter Rating. SPR Pro and Bundle members use the same account email on both sites.
Batter Rating and Starting Pitcher Rating are independently developed projects created for baseball fans who enjoy discovering new ways to study the game.
The databases continue to grow every season, with new features, historical research, and tools being added regularly. Thank you for being part of the Starting Pitcher Rating community.
Starting Pitcher Rating is an independent baseball research project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, College Baseball, the MLB Players Association, or their respective clubs or organizations. Team names, player names, and logos are used for identification and informational purposes.
Membership directly supports the continued research, development, hosting, data maintenance, and daily operation of Starting Pitcher Rating.