List of Major League Baseball career WHIP leaders
Introduction Addie Joss, the all-time leader in career WHIP.In baseball statistics, '''walks plus hits per inning pitched''' ('''WHIP''') is a sabermetric measurement of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched. WHIP reflects a pitcher's propensity for allowing batters to reach base, therefore a lower WHIP indicates better performance. WHIP is calculated by adding the number of walks and hits allowed and dividing this sum by the number of innings pitched.Below is the list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers in Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) with at least 1,000 innings pitched.Addie Joss is the all-time leader with a career WHIP of 0.9678.Jacob deGrom (0.9947) and Ed Walsh (0.9996) are the only other players with a career WHIP under 1.0000.
Key  '''Rank'''  Rank amongst leaders in career WHIP. A blank field indicates a tie. '''Player'''Name of player. '''WHIP'''Total career WHIP. *Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. '''Bold'''Denotes active player.
List Jacob deGrom, the active leader and 2nd all-time in career WHIP. *Stats updated as of the end of the 2023 season.RankPlayerWHIP1Addie Joss*0.96782'''Jacob deGrom'''0.99313Ed Walsh*0.99964Mariano Rivera*1.00035John Montgomery Ward*1.04386'''Clayton Kershaw'''1.00427'''Chris Sale'''1.04748Pedro Martínez*1.05449Christy Mathewson*1.058110Trevor Hoffman*1.058411Walter Johnson*1.061212Mordecai Brown*1.065813Charlie Sweeney1.067314'''Max Scherzer'''1.076715Reb Russell1.080016'''Gerrit Cole'''1.086617Jim Devlin1.086818Smoky Joe Wood1.086919Jack Pfiester1.088720George Bradley1.090120Tommy Bond1.090822Babe Adams1.092023'''Stephen Strasburg'''1.095924Juan Marichal*1.1012Satchel Paige*1.101226Dick Hall1.1019Rube Waddell*1.101928Larry Corcoran1.104829Deacon Phillippe1.105130Sandy Koufax*1.106131Fred Glade1.106632Ed Morris1.107533Will White1.111034Chief Bender*1.112735Charlie Ferguson1.117136Terry Larkin1.117237'''Justin Verlander'''1.118138Eddie Plank*1.118939Doc White1.120740Tom Seaver*1.120841Grover Cleveland Alexander*1.121242Tim Keefe*1.123043Hoyt Wilhelm*1.124544'''Aaron Nola'''1.128745'''Corey Kluber'''1.129346Masahiro Tanaka1.1296Cy Young*1.129648Frank Owen1.130649George McQuillan1.131150Hooks Wiltse1.1315RankPlayerWHIP51Noodles Hahn1.131952Johan Santana1.132053Jim McCormick1.132254Ray Collins1.134055Catfish Hunter*1.134156Lady Baldwin1.134757Curt Schilling1.137458'''Yu Darvish'''1.139559Bruce Sutter*1.140160Bret Saberhagen1.140661Nick Altrock1.140762Sam Leever1.141163Ferguson Jenkins*1.141864Don Sutton*1.142565Greg Maddux*1.1431Ed Reulbach1.143167Andy Messersmith1.143368Sid Fernandez1.144369Jeff Tesreau1.144770Gary Nolan1.145371Joe Benz1.1466Jim Whitney1.146673Don Drysdale*1.147774Charles Radbourn*1.149275Barney Pelty1.150476Jack Chesbro*1.152077Tiny Bonham1.152878Fred Goldsmith1.153079Russ Ford1.153780Eddie Cicotte1.154481'''Madison Bumgarner'''1.154682'''Kyle Hendricks'''1.155483Rollie Fingers*1.155684Bullet Rogan*1.156785Bob Caruthers1.157886Dick Rudolph1.158187Babe Ruth*1.158688Harry Coveleski1.158789Dennis Eckersley*1.160890Orval Overall1.161391David Price1.162592Denny McLain1.163393Jumbo McGinnis1.163694George Winter1.164995Frank Smith1.165896Carl Hubbell*1.165997Guy Hecker1.167698Jake Weimer1.167999Robin Roberts*1.1696100Slim Sallee1.1702
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