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The Top Ranked Starting Pitchers of the 1990s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Randy Johnson | 3 |
| 2 | Roger Clemens | 4 |
| 3 | Greg Maddux | 6 |
| 4 | Tom Glavine | 8 |
| 5 | Pedro Martinez | 10 |
| 6 | David Cone | 11 |
| 7 | John Smoltz | 13 |
| 8 | Kevin Brown | 14 |
| 9 | Jose Rijo | 17 |
| 10 | Curt Schilling | 18 |
| 11 | Kevin Appier | 22 |
| 12 | Jeff Fassero | 26 |
| 13 | Juan Guzman | 28 |
| 14 | Mike Mussina | 31 |
| 15 | Hideo Nomo | 37 |
| 16 | Shane Reynolds | 43 |
| 17 | Pete Harnisch | 45 |
| 18 | Chuck Finley | 53 |
| 19 | Andy Benes | 57 |
| 20 | Ramon Martinez | 59 |
| 21 | Mark Langston | 61 |
| 22 | Tom Gordon | 62 |
| 23 | Al Leiter | 67 |
| 24 | Doug Drabek | 71 |
| 25 | Alex Fernandez | 79 |
| 26 | Dennis Martinez | 83 |
| 27 | Jack McDowell | 84 |
| 28 | John Smiley | 87 |
| 29 | Wilson Alvarez | 99 |
| 30 | Denny Neagle | 100 |
| 31 | Andy Ashby | 103 |
| 32 | Ismael Valdez | 107 |
| 33 | Todd Stottlemyre | 108 |
| 34 | Jimmy Key | 112 |
| 35 | Tom Candiotti | 113 |
| 36 | David Wells | 120 |
| 37 | Ken Hill | 121 |
| 38 | Pat Hentgen | 122 |
| 39 | Darryl Kile | 125 |
| 40 | Mike Hampton | 128 |
| 41 | Dwight Gooden | 130 |
| 42 | Kenny Rogers | 131 |
| 43 | Bret Saberhagen | 132 |
| 44 | Charles Nagy | 135 |
| 45 | Bill C. Swift | 142 |
| 46 | Danny Darwin | 144 |
| 47 | Erik Hanson | 150 |
| 48 | Kerry Wood | 151 |
| 49 | Melido Perez | 155 |
| 50 | Ben McDonald | 157 |
| 51 | Orlando Hernandez | 158 |
| 52 | Tim Hudson | 160 |
| 53 | Chan Ho Park | 162 |
| 54 | Mark Portugal | 163 |
| 55 | Andy Pettitte | 166 |
| 56 | Tim Belcher | 167 |
| 57 | Steve Trachsel | 171 |
| 58 | Kent Mercker | 172 |
| 59 | Sterling Hitchcock | 177 |
| 60 | Nolan Ryan | 178 |
| 61 | Frank Viola | 179 |
| 62 | Tim Wakefield | 181 |
| 63 | Freddy Garcia | 182 |
| 64 | Bobby Witt | 183 |
| 65 | Dave Stewart | 185 |
| 66 | Butch Henry | 187 |
| 67 | Jim Abbott | 188 |
| 68 | Pete Schourek | 192 |
| 69 | Sid Fernandez | 196 |
| 70 | Greg W. Harris | 197 |
| 71 | Jason Bere | 206 |
| 72 | Mike Remlinger | 207 |
| 73 | Scott Elarton | 208 |
| 74 | Bruce Hurst | 209 |
| 75 | Scott Sanders | 212 |
| 76 | Danny Jackson | 213 |
| 77 | Mike Moore | 214 |
| 78 | Bartolo Colon | 215 |
| 79 | Kevin Millwood | 216 |
| 80 | Bob Welch | 217 |
| 81 | Shawn Estes | 218 |
| 82 | Jose Lima | 219 |
| 83 | Omar Daal | 220 |
| 84 | Dustin Hermanson | 222 |
| 85 | Tommy Greene | 225 |
| 86 | Alan Benes | 230 |
| 87 | Russ Ortiz | 231 |
| 88 | Dave Stieb | 233 |
| 89 | Frank Castillo | 244 |
| 90 | David West | 246 |
| 91 | Brian Bohanon | 248 |
| 92 | Jon Lieber | 253 |
| 93 | John Burkett | 254 |
| 94 | Justin Thompson | 258 |
| 95 | Mike Morgan | 263 |
| 96 | Zane Smith | 264 |
| 97 | Todd Ritchie | 266 |
| 98 | Mark Gardner | 270 |
| 99 | Jaime Navarro | 271 |
| 100 | Bob Tewksbury | 274 |
| 101 | Steve Avery | 285 |
| 102 | Greg Swindell | 291 |
| 103 | Mike Boddicker | 298 |
| 104 | Ed Whitson | 306 |
| 105 | John Tudor | 314 |
| 106 | Rick Reed | 315 |
| 107 | Roger Pavlik | 316 |
| 108 | Dave Burba | 320 |
| 109 | Joey Hamilton | 321 |
| 110 | Orel Hershiser | 322 |
| 111 | Brad Radke | 323 |
| 112 | Jose Guzman | 325 |
| 113 | Francisco Cordova | 332 |
| 114 | Steve Ontiveros | 336 |
| 115 | Kevin Gross | 338 |
| 116 | Kevin Tapani | 340 |
| 117 | Oil Can Boyd | 344 |
| 118 | Jack Morris | 348 |
| 119 | Mark Clark | 350 |
| 120 | Brett Tomko | 352 |
| 121 | Donovan Osborne | 361 |
| 122 | Rolando Arrojo | 365 |
| 123 | Steve Parris | 367 |
| 124 | Aaron Sele | 370 |
| 125 | Carlos Perez | 371 |
| 126 | Bobby Munoz | 375 |
| 127 | Jamie Moyer | 376 |
| 128 | Scott Erickson | 377 |
| 129 | Chris Bosio | 378 |
| 130 | Jack Armstrong | 382 |
| 131 | Kent Bottenfield | 383 |
| 132 | Kevin Foster | 384 |
| 133 | Chris Nabholz | 385 |
| 134 | Terry Mulholland | 389 |
| 135 | Darren Dreifort | 392 |
| 136 | William VanLandingham | 393 |
| 137 | Matt Morris | 394 |
| 138 | Matt Young | 395 |
| 139 | Robert Person | 396 |
| 140 | Pedro Astacio | 398 |
| 141 | Jose DeLeon | 410 |
| 142 | Chris Hammond | 413 |
| 143 | Rick Helling | 415 |
| 144 | Teddy Higuera | 419 |
| 145 | Bobby J. Jones | 423 |
| 146 | Pat Rapp | 425 |
| 147 | Cal Eldred | 426 |
| 148 | Trevor Wilson | 428 |
| 149 | Charlie Leibrandt | 433 |
| 150 | Joe Hesketh | 435 |
| 151 | Jose Rosado | 436 |
| 152 | Mike Harkey | 440 |
| 153 | Hideki Irabu | 441 |
| 154 | Bill Wegman | 449 |
| 155 | Kris Benson | 450 |
| 156 | Angel Miranda | 453 |
| 157 | Chad Ogea | 459 |
| 158 | Scott Sanderson | 467 |
| 159 | James Baldwin | 470 |
| 160 | Ron Villone | 473 |
| 161 | Dave Fleming | 475 |
| 162 | Jason Schmidt | 483 |
| 163 | Fernando Valenzuela | 492 |
| 164 | Jose de Jesus | 493 |
| 165 | Bob Ojeda | 494 |
| 166 | Chris Peters | 496 |
| 167 | Bud Black | 502 |
| 168 | Ramon Garcia | 505 |
| 169 | Steve Karsay | 506 |
| 170 | Eric Milton | 511 |
| 171 | Steve Woodard | 512 |
| 172 | Terrell Wade | 515 |
| 173 | Kirk Rueter | 520 |
| 174 | Eric King | 523 |
| 175 | Dave Mlicki | 530 |
| 176 | Greg Hibbard | 532 |
| 177 | Kevin Ritz | 542 |
| 178 | Willie Banks | 552 |
| 179 | Chuck Cary | 554 |
| 180 | Woody S. Williams | 555 |
| 181 | Chris Carpenter | 559 |
| 182 | Rheal Cormier | 562 |
| 183 | Kirk McCaskill | 564 |
| 184 | Jeff Juden | 567 |
| 185 | Paul Wagner | 575 |
| 186 | Tony Saunders | 578 |
| 187 | Rocky Coppinger | 580 |
| 188 | Randy Tomlin | 586 |
| 189 | Matt Clement | 592 |
| 190 | Masato Yoshii | 596 |
| 191 | Ryan Dempster | 609 |
| 192 | Ron Darling | 610 |
| 193 | Neal Heaton | 612 |
| 194 | Mike Sirotka | 613 |
| 195 | Mike Mimbs | 614 |
| 196 | Mike Scott | 618 |
| 197 | Steve Cooke | 620 |
| 198 | Omar Olivares | 626 |
| 199 | Brian Moehler | 630 |
| 200 | Scott Kamieniecki | 632 |
| 201 | Brian Holman | 633 |
| 202 | Sean Bergman | 636 |
| 203 | Geremi Gonzalez | 637 |
| 204 | Bob Walk | 648 |
| 205 | Armando Reynoso | 649 |
| 206 | Todd Van Poppel | 652 |
| 207 | Mike Thurman | 655 |
| 208 | Allen Watson | 656 |
| 209 | Willie Blair | 657 |
| 210 | Ryan Rupe | 658 |
| 211 | Tim Leary | 659 |
| 212 | Brian Barnes | 661 |
| 213 | Bob Milacki | 669 |
| 214 | Ron Robinson | 671 |
| 215 | Jim Deshaies | 673 |
| 216 | Luis Aquino | 677 |
| 217 | John Halama | 680 |
| 218 | Ricky Bones | 686 |
| 219 | Javier Vazquez | 687 |
| 220 | Dana Kiecker | 689 |
| 221 | Bill Krueger | 691 |
| 222 | Esteban Loaiza | 693 |
| 223 | Anthony Young | 697 |
| 224 | Bill Pulsipher | 699 |
| 225 | Bryn Smith | 700 |
| 226 | Julio Valera | 701 |
| 227 | Charlie Hough | 702 |
| 228 | Kelly Downs | 704 |
| 229 | Tom Browning | 715 |
| 230 | Scott Karl | 723 |
| 231 | Joe Magrane | 727 |
| 232 | Jose Mercedes | 730 |
| 233 | Frank Tanana | 733 |
| 234 | Joe Mays | 736 |
| 235 | Chris Holt | 738 |
| 236 | Jason Grimsley | 740 |
| 237 | Ariel Prieto | 742 |
| 238 | Bob Wells | 745 |
| 239 | Ben Rivera | 746 |
| 240 | Randy Wolf | 758 |
| 241 | Jimmy Jones | 759 |
| 242 | Jeff D'Amico | 760 |
| 243 | Felipe Lira | 761 |
| 244 | Mark Gubicza | 764 |
| 245 | Bill Gullickson | 765 |
| 246 | Steve Sparks | 767 |
| 247 | Pat Combs | 770 |
| 248 | Tom Kramer | 780 |
| 249 | Jason Dickson | 782 |
| 250 | John Ericks | 788 |
| 251 | Ryan Bowen | 791 |
| 252 | Roy Halladay | 793 |
| 253 | Livan Hernandez | 797 |
| 254 | Jesus Sanchez | 798 |
| 255 | John Roper | 803 |
| 256 | Wally Whitehurst | 808 |
| 257 | Osvaldo Fernandez | 810 |
| 258 | Rick Sutcliffe | 811 |
| 259 | Jaret Wright | 812 |
| 260 | Rod Nichols | 815 |
| 261 | David Nied | 816 |
| 262 | Shawn Boskie | 820 |
| 263 | Dennis Rasmussen | 822 |
| 264 | Frankie Rodriguez | 829 |
| 265 | Carl Pavano | 837 |
| 266 | Mike Gardiner | 841 |
| 267 | Jason Isringhausen | 843 |
| 268 | Matt Beech | 844 |
| 269 | Scott Garrelts | 847 |
| 270 | Miguel Batista | 850 |
| 271 | Brian J. Anderson | 852 |
| 272 | Don Robinson | 855 |
| 273 | Steve Wilson | 857 |
| 274 | Chris Haney | 862 |
| 275 | Amaury Telemaco | 865 |
| 276 | Dave W. Johnson | 872 |
| 277 | Rick Mahler | 878 |
| 278 | Brian Givens | 882 |
| 279 | Sidney Ponson | 885 |
| 280 | Tyler Green | 892 |
| 281 | Paul Wilson | 893 |
| 282 | Dan Petry | 894 |
| 283 | Jeff Suppan | 895 |
| 284 | John Dopson | 912 |
| 285 | Rich W. Robertson | 913 |
| 286 | John Thomson | 920 |
| 287 | Mark Thompson | 922 |
| 288 | Walt Terrell | 933 |
| 289 | Bert Blyleven | 934 |
| 290 | Mark Knudson | 935 |
| 291 | Eric Hilman | 940 |
| 292 | Jeff Weaver | 941 |
| 293 | Bobby M. Jones | 950 |
| 294 | Jimmy Haynes | 956 |
| 295 | Allan Anderson | 960 |
| 296 | Tim Pugh | 961 |
| 297 | Kyle Abbott | 967 |
| 298 | Dave LaPoint | 970 |
| 299 | Roger Bailey | 972 |
| 300 | Don August | 975 |
| 301 | Kirt Ojala | 976 |
| 302 | Jim Parque | 979 |
| 303 | Curt Young | 980 |
| 304 | Brad Woodall | 985 |
| 305 | Scott Aldred | 986 |
| 306 | Jeff Johnson | 988 |
| 307 | Phil Leftwich | 996 |
| 308 | Bob Wolcott | 997 |
| 309 | Mike Oquist | 1001 |
| 310 | Roy Smith | 1004 |
| 311 | Pete Smith | 1008 |
| 312 | Jeff Ballard | 1009 |
| 313 | Don Wengert | 1010 |
| 314 | Kyle Farnsworth | 1015 |
| 315 | Glendon Rusch | 1016 |
| 316 | John Cerutti | 1017 |
| 317 | Salomon Torres | 1018 |
| 318 | Kevin Jarvis | 1019 |
| 319 | Jeff M. Robinson | 1022 |
| 320 | Jose Jimenez | 1035 |
| 321 | Dennis Springer | 1039 |
| 322 | Andy Hawkins | 1041 |
| 323 | Wade Taylor | 1044 |
| 324 | Jay Witasick | 1047 |
| 325 | Jason Jacome | 1049 |
| 326 | Carlos Pulido | 1059 |
| 327 | Julio Santana | 1060 |
| 328 | Scott Scudder | 1062 |
| 329 | Joe Slusarski | 1068 |
| 330 | Roger Salkeld | 1071 |
| 331 | Frank Seminara | 1081 |
| 332 | Jamey Wright | 1084 |
| 333 | Garrett Stephenson | 1088 |
| 334 | Mike Witt | 1091 |
| 335 | Seth Greisinger | 1096 |
| 336 | Dave Otto | 1104 |
| 337 | Brian Meadows | 1105 |
| 338 | Glenn Dishman | 1109 |
| 339 | Hector Fajardo | 1110 |
| 340 | John Mitchell | 1112 |
| 341 | Tom Urbani | 1115 |
| 342 | Jim Pittsley | 1116 |
| 343 | LaTroy Hawkins | 1118 |
| 344 | Greg Gohr | 1120 |
| 345 | Brian Fisher | 1127 |
| 346 | Ken Howell | 1128 |
| 347 | Sergio Valdez | 1136 |
| 348 | Ken Cloude | 1138 |
| 349 | Kevin Morton | 1147 |
| 350 | Eric Show | 1150 |
| 351 | Bryan Rekar | 1163 |
| 352 | Marty Clary | 1168 |
| 353 | Pascual Perez | 1171 |
| 354 | Dave Johnson | 1180 |
| 355 | John E. Farrell | 1182 |
| 356 | Carlton Loewer | 1186 |
| 357 | Jason Johnson | 1187 |
| 358 | Rick Reuschel | 1194 |
| 359 | Vaughn Eshelman | 1196 |
| 360 | Paul McClellan | 1200 |
| 361 | Vladimir Nunez | 1201 |
| 362 | Mike Grace | 1204 |
| 363 | Adam Peterson | 1205 |
| 364 | Sid Roberson | 1207 |
| 365 | Blake Stein | 1208 |
| 366 | Rick Krivda | 1215 |
| 367 | Jim Neidlinger | 1218 |
| 368 | Sam Militello | 1219 |
| 369 | Chris Brock | 1221 |
| 370 | Mike LaCoss | 1224 |
| 371 | Jamie Brewington | 1226 |
| 372 | Mac Suzuki | 1228 |
| 373 | Dave Eiland | 1232 |
| 374 | John Dettmer | 1234 |
| 375 | Willie Adams | 1241 |
| 376 | Mike Johnson | 1242 |
| 377 | Steve Searcy | 1244 |
| 378 | Jeff Mutis | 1251 |
| 379 | Brian Rose | 1254 |
| 380 | Scott Eyre | 1255 |
| 381 | Edwin Hurtado | 1256 |
| 382 | Jose Silva | 1261 |
| 383 | Brian Dubois | 1270 |
| 384 | Kevin D. Brown | 1274 |
| 385 | Steve Wojciechowski | 1275 |
| 386 | Greg Mathews | 1278 |
| 387 | Brad Rigby | 1279 |
| 388 | Jay Tibbs | 1280 |
| 389 | Matt Wagner | 1281 |
| 390 | Jeremy Powell | 1284 |
| 391 | Eric Hillman | 1294 |
| 392 | Odalis Perez | 1297 |
| 393 | Joe Nathan | 1301 |
| 394 | Calvin Maduro | 1303 |
| 395 | Larry Luebbers | 1304 |
| 396 | Huck Flener | 1307 |
| 397 | Marty Janzen | 1309 |
| 398 | Greg Brummett | 1312 |
| 399 | Brad Brink | 1314 |
| 400 | Octavio Dotel | 1316 |
| 401 | Rich Hunter | 1318 |
| 402 | Denis Boucher | 1320 |
| 403 | Dan Smith | 1323 |
| 404 | Larry Carter | 1331 |
| 405 | Scott Chiamparino | 1334 |
| 406 | Gil Meche | 1335 |
| 407 | Brian Powell | 1341 |
| 408 | Jim Converse | 1345 |
| 409 | Bob Knepper | 1348 |
| 410 | John Burke | 1352 |
| 411 | Tim Van Egmond | 1354 |
| 412 | Jarrod Washburn | 1355 |
| 413 | Dan Perkins | 1356 |
| 414 | Paul Marak | 1358 |
| 415 | Hilly Hathaway | 1361 |
| 416 | Kyle Peterson | 1365 |
| 417 | Scott Winchester | 1367 |
| 418 | Mo Sanford | 1369 |
| 419 | Rich Scheid | 1371 |
| 420 | Eric Hetzel | 1390 |
| 421 | Dave Borkowski | 1394 |
| 422 | Gar Finnvold | 1396 |
| 423 | Kirk Dressendorfer | 1397 |
| 424 | Giovanni Carrara | 1398 |
| 425 | Miguel Jimenez | 1403 |
| 426 | Gary Eave | 1405 |
| 427 | Mike Lincoln | 1407 |
| 428 | Victor Cole | 1408 |
| 429 | Rafael Medina | 1417 |
| 430 | Domingo Jean | 1421 |
| 431 | Pete Filson | 1422 |
| 432 | Chris Gardner | 1427 |
| 433 | Jerry Kutzler | 1428 |
| 434 | Matt Perisho | 1430 |
| 435 | Andy Larkin | 1432 |
| 436 | Jim Hunter | 1433 |
| 437 | Mike Birkbeck | 1436 |
| 438 | Steve Dreyer | 1441 |
| 439 | Trey Moore | 1444 |
| 440 | Andrew Lorraine | 1447 |
| 441 | Jonathan Hurst | 1450 |
| 442 | Scott Anderson | 1452 |
| 443 | Dan S. Smith | 1454 |
| 444 | Tavo Alvarez | 1455 |
| 445 | Nate Minchey | 1457 |
| 446 | Mike Dunne | 1459 |
| 447 | Dennis Moeller | 1466 |
| 448 | Ryan Glynn | 1471 |
| 449 | Ramon Ortiz | 1474 |
| 450 | Jeff Ware | 1475 |
| 451 | John Hope | 1478 |
| 452 | A.J. Burnett | 1479 |
| 453 | Mike Farmer | 1481 |
| 454 | Steve Adkins | 1482 |
| 455 | Rod Bolton | 1491 |
| 456 | Dave Swartzbaugh | 1492 |
| 457 | Eric Nolte | 1493 |
| 458 | Howard Farmer | 1494 |
| 459 | Joe Fontenot | 1495 |
| 460 | Rick Ankiel | 1497 |
| 461 | Hector Wagner | 1501 |
| 462 | Tom Filer | 1502 |
| 463 | Eric Gagne | 1505 |
| 464 | Stan Spencer | 1507 |
| 465 | Al Nipper | 1508 |
| 466 | Curt Lyons | 1509 |
| 467 | Kip Wells | 1511 |
| 468 | Micah Bowie | 1516 |
| 469 | Richard Dotson | 1518 |
| 470 | Cliff Politte | 1520 |
| 471 | Terry Wells | 1523 |
| 472 | Jason Ryan | 1525 |
| 473 | Buddy Carlyle | 1533 |
| 474 | Jin Ho Cho | 1536 |
| 475 | Joe Rosselli | 1538 |
| 476 | Steve Soderstrom | 1545 |
| 477 | Tanyon Sturtze | 1548 |
| 478 | Dan Wheeler | 1550 |
| 479 | Juan F. Castillo | 1552 |
| 480 | Kevin Blankenship | 1553 |
| 481 | Juan Pena | 1562 |
| 482 | Mike Judd | 1566 |
| 483 | Lance Dickson | 1568 |
| 484 | Edgar Ramos | 1570 |
| 485 | Brian Cooper | 1574 |
| 486 | Shane Bowers | 1578 |
| 487 | Dan Reichert | 1580 |
| 488 | Scott M. Taylor | 1581 |
| 489 | Mark Holzemer | 1582 |
| 490 | Mike Bertotti | 1587 |
| 491 | Mark Brownson | 1588 |
| 492 | Paul Miller | 1589 |
| 493 | Rick Gorecki | 1593 |
| 494 | Anthony Shumaker | 1599 |
| 495 | Jeff Williams | 1609 |
| 496 | Pat Ahearne | 1610 |
| 497 | Pat Daneker | 1616 |
| 498 | Ryan Nye | 1617 |
| 499 | Robert Ramsay | 1622 |
| 500 | Aaron Myette | 1631 |
| 501 | Mickey Callaway | 1635 |
| 502 | Brian McNichol | 1642 |
| 503 | Denny Harriger | 1644 |
| 504 | Joel Bennett | 1648 |
| 505 | Mike Saipe | 1649 |
| 506 | Luther Hackman | 1657 |
| 507 | Matt Riley | 1664 |
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