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We continue our early look at 2012 positional rankings this week with starting pitchers. Why not have a look at the other positions as well?
Catcher: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles
First Base: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles
Second Base: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles
Third Base: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles
Shortstop: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles
Outfield: Initial, In-Depth with Profiles: #1 | #2
Quality starting pitching can be found at the top, middle, and bottom of draft boards in 2012. I was initially supposed to rank 40 pitchers, but I expanded to 50 once I realized just how deep the position is. Additionally, there were 7 different pitchers that I told myself I would have to make sure got included in the top 5. Eventually, I just had to settle on an order that I didn't hate.
I will have profiles for each pitcher ranked 1-25 out tomorrow, with 26-50 coming on Wednesday. As always, please leave me your feedback in the comments.
1. Roy Halladay
2. Clayton Kershaw
3. Justin Verlander
4. Felix Hernandez
5. Tim Lincecum
6. Cliff Lee
7. CC Sabathia
8. Cole Hamels
9. Zack Greinke
10. Jered Weaver
11. Dan Haren
12. David Price
13. Jon Lester
14. Ian Kennedy
15. Matt Cain
16. Stephen Strasburg
17. Madison Bumgarner
18. Michael Pineda
19. James Shields
20. Yovani Gallardo
21. Tommy Hanson
22. Josh Beckett
23. Matt Garza
24. Adam Wainwright
25. Yu Darvish
26. Ricky Romero
27. C.J. Wilson
28. Mat Latos
29. Brandon Beachy
30. Derek Holland
31. Cory Luebke
32. Jordan Zimmermann
33. Brandon Morrow
34. Josh Johnson
35. Daniel Hudson
36. Chris Carpenter
37. Matt Moore
38. Anibal Sanchez
39. Max Scherzer
40. Shaun Marcum
41. Gio Gonzalez
42. Ubaldo Jimenez
43. Scott Baker
44. Ted Lilly
45. Alexi Ogando
46. Neftali Feliz
47. Chris Sale
48. Jaime Garcia
49. Jeremy Hellickson
50. Ivan Nova