List of Major League Baseball career WHIP leaders

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. Ed Walsh (0.9996) is the only other player 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

Clayton Kershaw, the active leader and 4th all-time in career WHIP.

• Stats updated as of May 31, 2021

Rank	Player	WHIP
1	Addie Joss *	0.9678
2	Ed Walsh *	0.9996
3	Mariano Rivera *	1.0003
4	Clayton Kershaw	1.0024
5	Jacob deGrom	1.0273
6	Chris Sale	1.0346
7	John Montgomery Ward *	1.0438
8	Pedro Martínez *	1.0544
9	Christy Mathewson *	1.0581
10	Trevor Hoffman *	1.0584
11	Walter Johnson *	1.0612
12	Mordecai Brown *	1.0658
13	Charlie Sweeney	1.0673
14	Reb Russell	1.0800
15	Jim Devlin	1.0868
16	Smoky Joe Wood	1.0869
17	Jack Pfiester	1.0887
18	George Bradley	1.0901
19	Corey Kluber	1.0903
20	Tommy Bond	1.0908
21	Stephen Strasburg	1.0915
22	Babe Adams	1.0920
23	Max Scherzer	1.0924
24	Juan Marichal *	1.1012
25	Dick Hall	1.1019
	Rube Waddell *	1.1019
27	Gerrit Cole	1.1041
28	Larry Corcoran	1.1048
29	Deacon Phillippe	1.1051
30	Sandy Koufax *	1.1061
31	Fred Glade	1.1066
32	Ed Morris	1.1075
33	Will White	1.1110
34	Chief Bender *	1.1127
35	Charlie Ferguson	1.1171
36	Terry Larkin	1.1172
37	Eddie Plank *	1.1189
38	Madison Bumgarner	1.1191
39	Doc White	1.1207
40	Kyle Hendricks	1.1208
	Tom Seaver *	1.1208
42	Grover Cleveland Alexander *	1.1212
43	Tim Keefe *	1.1230
44	Hoyt Wilhelm *	1.1245
45	Masahiro Tanaka	1.1296
	Cy Young *	1.1296
47	Frank Owen	1.1306
48	George McQuillan	1.1311
49	Hooks Wiltse	1.1315
50	Noodles Hahn	1.1319

Rank	Player	WHIP
51	Johan Santana	1.1320
52	Jim McCormick	1.1322
53	Ray Collins	1.1340
54	Catfish Hunter *	1.1341
55	Justin Verlander	1.1342
56	Lady Baldwin	1.1347
57	Curt Schilling	1.1374
58	Bruce Sutter *	1.1401
59	Bret Saberhagen	1.1406
60	Nick Altrock	1.1407
61	Sam Leever	1.1411
62	Ferguson Jenkins *	1.1418
63	Don Sutton *	1.1425
64	Greg Maddux *	1.1431
	Ed Reulbach	1.1431
66	Andy Messersmith	1.1433
67	Sid Fernandez	1.1443
68	Jeff Tesreau	1.1447
69	Gary Nolan	1.1453
70	Joe Benz	1.1466
	Jim Whitney	1.1466
72	Yu Darvish	1.1469
73	Don Drysdale *	1.1477
74	Charles Radbourn	1.1492
75	Barney Pelty	1.1504
76	Jack Chesbro *	1.1520
77	Tiny Bonham	1.1528
78	Fred Goldsmith	1.1530
79	Russ Ford	1.1537
80	Eddie Cicotte	1.1544
	David Price	1.1544
82	Rollie Fingers *	1.1556
83	Zack Greinke	1.1574
84	Bob Caruthers	1.1578
85	Dick Rudolph	1.1581
86	Babe Ruth *	1.1586
87	Harry Coveleski	1.1587
88	Dennis Eckersley *	1.1608
89	Orval Overall	1.1613
90	Denny McLain	1.1633
91	Jumbo McGinnis	1.1636
92	George Winter	1.1649
93	Frank Smith	1.1658
94	Carl Hubbell *	1.1659
95	Guy Hecker	1.1676
96	Jake Weimer	1.1679
97	Robin Roberts *	1.1696
98	Slim Sallee	1.1702
99	Randy Johnson *	1.1711
100	Hiroki Kuroda	1.1721

References

• Baseball-Reference.com