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Matt Linder The sheer quantity of ace-caliber pitchers in the big leagues right now is remarkable.  Trying to trim down the list and pick the top ten was not easy.  Keep in mind, this is a ranking of the ten best pitchers in baseball for the 2018 season, not of career accomplishments nor future projection.  Enjoy! Mark J. Terrill - AP 1. Clayton Kershaw The top spot is a toss up between the four best pitchers in the game, but Kershaw’s overall body of work earns him the crown.  Despite missing time for the second consecutive season due to back issues, Kershaw led the league with a 2.31 ERA across 175 innings in 2017.  This is not a list of career accomplishments, but rather a look ahead to who will perform best in the upcoming season.  With that being said, when splitting hairs, I am going to give the top spot to the man who has put together an all-time great seven-year stretch of dominance. Icon Sportswire 2. Max S...

By Patrick Zeng @Roundtripper891 📸: Sporting News The 2017 season has seen a changing of the guard when it comes to baseball's dominant ace. DC's coup in the winter of 2014 when Max Scherzer was acquired has been nothing short of marvelous for Nationals. Scherzer has stared in his two plus seasons in the nation's capital compiling 43 wins and a 2.71 era. Whenever pitching and dominance are referenced in today's game, Clayton Kershaw is automatically the first thought. And over their careers, Kershaw will be viewed as the better pitcher in comparison to Scherzer but the 2017 season has been writing a different narrative. Both ace's play for two of the National League's best teams, toeing the rubber as each club's stopper, star and ace. But a dive into the numbers show that this year, Scherzer is baseball's best, not Kershaw.  Coming off a Cy Young season, Scherzer boasts the top ERA in baseball with a 2.06 mark in comparison to Kershaw's  2...

By Patrick Zeng @ Roundtripper891 With this week marking the occasion of the Yankees retiring Derek Jeter's iconic #2, much has been made of the fact that baseball has not had a true "face" since the Yankee captain hung up his cleats in 2014. Even with the likes of Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw and Kris Bryant dominating the game in markets all over the country, baseball has struggled to establish one star that shines above the rest. But they don't need one, because baseball differs from leagues like the NFL and NBA. Both these leagues are required to market their stars for they have so much more of an influence over a game than one MLB player. Players like LeBron James have the ability to score ten straight points for their team while Carlos Correa only comes up to bat once every nine players. The NFL and especially the NBA are much more individualistic leagues, so of course their star power is much more easily marketed. Debate always seems to center...