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 (0.996) 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 the 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 July 3, 2017.

Rank	Player	WHIP
1	Addie Joss *	0.9678
2	Ed Walsh *	0.9996
3	Mariano Rivera	1.0003
4	Clayton Kershaw	1.0009
5	John Montgomery Ward *	1.0435
6	Chris Sale	1.0482
7	Pedro Martínez *	1.0544
8	Christy Mathewson *	1.0581
9	Trevor Hoffman	1.0584
10	Walter Johnson *	1.0612
11	Mordecai Brown *	1.0658
12	Charlie Sweeney	1.0673
13	Reb Russell	1.0800
14	Jim Devlin	1.0868
15	Smoky Joe Wood	1.0869
16	Jack Pfiester	1.0887
17	George Bradley	1.0901
18	Tommy Bond	1.0908
19	Stephen Strasburg	1.0919
20	Babe Adams	1.0920
21	Madison Bumgarner	1.0971
22	Juan Marichal *	1.1012
23	Dick Hall	1.1019
	Rube Waddell *	1.1019
25	Larry Corcoran	1.1048
26	Deacon Phillippe	1.1051
27	Sandy Koufax *	1.1061
28	Fred Glade	1.1066
29	Ed Morris	1.1075
30	Will White	1.1110
31	Chief Bender *	1.1127
32	Charlie Ferguson	1.1171
33	Terry Larkin	1.1172
34	Eddie Plank *	1.1189
35	Max Scherzer	1.1200
36	Doc White	1.1207
37	Tom Seaver *	1.1208
38	Grover Cleveland Alexander *	1.1212
39	Tim Keefe *	1.1200
40	Hoyt Wilhelm *	1.1245
41	Cy Young *	1.1296
42	Frank Owen	1.1306
43	George McQuillan	1.311
44	Hooks Wiltse	1.1315
45	Noodles Hahn	1.1319
46	Johan Santana	1.1320
47	Jim McCormick	1.1322
48	Ray Collins	1.1340
49	Catfish Hunter *	1.1340
50	Lady Baldwin	1.1347

Rank	Player	WHIP
51	Curt Schilling	1.1374
52	Bruce Sutter *	1.1401
53	Bret Saberhagen	1.1406
54	Nick Altrock	1.1407
55	Sam Leever	1.1411
56	Ferguson Jenkins *	1.1418
57	Don Sutton *	1.1425
58	Greg Maddux *	1.1431
	Ed Reulbach	1.1431
60	Andy Messersmith	1.1433
61	Sid Fernandez	1.1443
62	Jeff Tesreau	1.1447
63	David Price	1.1450
64	Gary Nolan	1.1453
65	Joe Benz	1.1466
	Jim Whitney	1.1466
67	Don Drysdale *	1.1477
68	Charles Radbourn	1.1492
69	Barney Pelty	1.1504
70	Jack Chesbro *	1.1520
71	Tiny Bonham	1.1528
72	Fred Goldsmith	1.1530
73	Russ Ford	1.1537
74	Eddie Cicotte	1.1544
75	Rollie Fingers *	1.1556
76	Bob Caruthers	1.1578
77	Dick Rudolph	1.1581
78	Babe Ruth *	1.1586
79	Harry Coveleski	1.1587
80	Dennis Eckersley *	1.1608
81	Cole Hamels	1.1612
82	Orval Overall	1.1613
83	Denny McLain	1.1633
84	Jumbo McGinnis	1.1636
85	George Winter	1.1649
86	Carl Hubbell *	1.1659
87	Frank Smith	1.1663
88	Guy Hecker	1.1676
89	Jake Weimer	1.1679
90	Robin Roberts *	1.1696
91	Slim Sallee	1.1702
92	Randy Johnson *	1.1711
93	Hiroki Kuroda	1.1721
94	Roy Patterson	1.1722
95	Jake Arrieta	1.1724
96	Roger Clemens	1.1725
97	Nap Rucker	1.1746
98	Dan Quisenberry	1.1751
99	John Smoltz *	1.1759
	Jack Taylor	1.1759

References

• Baseball-Reference.com