To prepare my Top 400 Starting Pitchers for 2025 article, I thoroughly review every team's rotation and write the blurbs you see in February. I usually don't share these publicly until then, but I wanted to give another benefit to those who support us with PL Pro. Y'all are the ones who keep the lights on for us. Y'all rock.
With PL Pro, you'll get access to these articles, an ad-free experience, access to our 1,000+ member Discord (the best place to take baseball on the internet!) our 2025 player projections infused with PLV (Pitch modeling!), our incredible PLV Apps, including Live PLV data in-season and rolling charts for Process+, and so much more.
Get two free months of PL Pro when signing up yearly with promo code SPBREAKDOWNS - Sign up here.
You can also join me LIVE on playback.tv/pitcherlist throughout the off-season as I craft these articles by watching games together, displaying my research process, and chatting with our community.
Huge thanks to Josh Mockensturm for creating these tables and finding video for all these players.
Expected Starters
Germán Márquez (COL, RHP)
When we last saw Germán for more than a handful of games, it was 2022 and times were dire. After his 2024 came to a screeching halt due to a stress fracture in his elbow after just one four-inning game, we still have very little idea of what we'll get from Germán in 2025. The problem here lies in what we can expect. The last proper season we saw came with a touch of hope in his breakers against RHB and a sinker that managed to induce a sub 30% ICR, but his four-seamer is far from effective and LHB had a field day. For Márquez to be worth your attention, he needs to return and be better than his last full season, and arguably better than his 2021 campaign as well. Here's to hoping the slider and curve can return 20% SwStr rates once again to at least give him a chance.
Ryan Feltner (COL, RHP)
