Whichever way you slice it, there are so many ways to attack starting pitching in 2025 fantasy baseball drafts, so don’t feel pressure to jump in early and have some fun leaning into upside as your draft nears the end.

Michael Florio's 2025 fantasy baseball starting pitcher breakouts to target in drafts. His favorite undervalued pitchers and fantasy baseball sleepers to break out.

Ranking relief pitchers in Fantasy Baseball is probably the hardest position to get right. Not only do you have to try to assess talent for pitchers who are throwing, at most, about 80 innings in a season – a little less than half a season for most starting pitchers – but you also have to try to predict how managers will deploy their best relievers.