MLB Pitching Board
The standings show who is winning. The Pitching Board shows how much the rotation is driving it — ranking all 30 MLB teams by 1-2 punch, rotation cliff, and depth.
What is the MLB Pitching Board?
The Pitching Board is a league-wide expansion of Starter Signal. For every MLB team, it calculates how the team performs with their top two starters versus how they perform with everyone else — then ranks all 30 teams by those metrics.
This is not a traditional ERA leaderboard. The Pitching Board uses team win pace in each pitcher's starts, so it reflects the full picture of what happens when a specific pitcher takes the mound: run support, bullpen performance, and team execution.
Which MLB teams have the biggest rotation cliff?
The rotation cliff is the gap between a team's top-two-starters win pace and their everyone-else win pace. A team with a 108W pace when Cole and Schmidt start, but only a 66W pace with everyone else, has a 42-win rotation cliff. That team is playing two completely different seasons depending on the day's starter.
Track The Season's Pitching Board ranks all 30 teams by this gap, updated nightly.
Which MLB teams have the best 1-2 punch?
The Best 1-2 Punch section ranks teams by the combined win pace of their top two starters. A team where the top two starters combine for a 115W+ pace has one of the most dominant top-of-rotation combinations in baseball — based entirely on how the team actually performs in those games.
Which MLB teams have the deepest pitching rotations?
Rotation depth means the team does not fall apart after the top two starters. The Pitching Board identifies teams where the everyone-else pace is still 81W or higher, with a small gap. These are teams with genuine depth — their season does not hinge on two pitchers staying healthy.