# List of Major League Baseball career FIP leaders

In baseball statistics, fielding independent pitching (FIP) is the measure of a pitcher's effectiveness based only on statistics that do not involve fielders (except the catcher). These include home runs allowed, strikeouts, hit batters, walks, and, more recently, fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and (to a much lesser extent) line drive percentage. It is considered to be a more accurate reflection of a pitcher's performance than earned run average.
This is a list of the top 100 leaders in career FIP, who have thrown at least 1,000 innings.
Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh holds the major league record for lowest career FIP, with 2.018.

## Key

| Rank | Rank amongst leaders in career earned run average. A blank field indicates a tie. |
| Player | Name of player. |
| FIP | Total career fielding independent pitching. |
| * | Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| Bold | Denotes an active player. |

## List

* Stats updated as of the end of the 2024 season.
| Rank | Player | FIP |
| 1 | Ed Walsh* | 2.018 |
| 2 | Rube Waddell* | 2.033 |
| 3 | Satchel Paige* | 2.188 |
| 4 | Addie Joss* | 2.188 |
| 5 | Smoky Joe Wood | 2.256 |
| 6 | Christy Mathewson* | 2.263 |
| 7 | Chief Bender* | 2.294 |
| 8 | Jack Pfiester | 2.322 |
| 9 | Jim Devlin | 2.325 |
| 10 | Tommy Bond | 2.337 |
| 11 | Reb Russell | 2.357 |
| 12 | Walter Johnson* | 2.377 |
| 13 | Orval Overall | 2.385 |
| 14 | Mordecai Brown* | 2.414 |
| 15 | John Montgomery Ward* | 2.427 |
| 16 | Fred Glade | 2.445 |
| 17 | Eddie Plank* | 2.448 |
| 18 | Cy Falkenberg | 2.492 |
| 19 | Dick Rudolph | 2.509 |
| 20 | Doc White | 2.511 |
| 21 | Terry Larkin | 2.517 |
| 22 | Frank Smith | 2.524 |
| 23 | Joe Lake | 2.530 |
| 24 | Irv Young | 2.536 |
| 25 | Red Ames | 2.537 |
| 26 | Ray Collins | 2.539 |
| 27 | Eddie Cicotte | 2.543 |
| 28 | Bob Ewing | 2.553 |
| 29 | Nick Altrock | 2.556 |
| 30 | Charlie Smith | 2.558 |
| 31 | Hooks Wiltse | 2.559 |
| 32 | Andy Coakley | 2.583 |
| 33 | George McQuillan | 2.584 |
| 34 | Jacob deGrom | 2.590 |
| 35 | George Bradley | 2.592 |
| 36 | Deacon Phillippe | 2.595 |
| 37 | Nap Rucker | 2.597 |
| 38 | Hippo Vaughn | 2.626 |
| 39 | Jim Scott | 2.628 |
| 40 | Joe Benz | 2.634 |
| 41 | Ed Karger | 2.646 |
| 42 | George Bell | 2.649 |
| 43 | Noodles Hahn | 2.654 |
| 44 | Candy Cummings* | 2.661 |
| 45 | Doc Ayers | 2.670 |
| 46 | Jack Chesbro* | 2.674 |
| 47 | Frank Corridon | 2.684 |
| 48 | Sandy Koufax* | 2.687 |
| 49 | Dave Davenport | 2.700 |
| 50 | Harry Coveleski | 2.702 |
| Rank | Player | FIP |
| | Bobby Mathews | 2.702 |
| 52 | Babe Adams | 2.704 |
| | Frank Owen | 2.704 |
| | Al Spalding | 2.704 |
| 55 | Bullet Rogan* | 2.705 |
| 56 | Willie Mitchell | 2.710 |
| 57 | Bob Wicker | 2.712 |
| 58 | Lee Richmond | 2.725 |
| 59 | Bill Byrd | 2.726 |
| 60 | Cherokee Fisher | 2.729 |
| 61 | Jim Whitney | 2.746 |
| 62 | Al Demaree | 2.749 |
| | Claude Hendrix | 2.749 |
| 64 | Sam Weaver | 2.752 |
| 65 | Bob Veale | 2.759 |
| 66 | Mariano Rivera* | 2.764 |
| 67 | Bill Donovan | 2.766 |
| 68 | Nick Cullop | 2.770 |
| 69 | Dutch Leonard | 2.771 |
| 70 | Harry Howell | 2.787 |
| 71 | Johnny Lush | 2.791 |
| 72 | Jeff Tesreau | 2.792 |
| 73 | Gene Packard | 2.794 |
| 74 | Fred Beebe | 2.801 |
| | Ed Killian | 2.801 |
| 76 | Babe Ruth* | 2.806 |
| 77 | Jake Weimer | 2.814 |
| 78 | George Winter | 2.816 |
| 79 | Grover Cleveland Alexander* | 2.818 |
| 80 | Ed Siever | 2.819 |
| 81 | Clayton Kershaw | 2.825 |
| 82 | Bob Groom | 2.826 |
| 83 | Barney Pelty | 2.827 |
| 84 | Russ Ford | 2.838 |
| 85 | Sam Leever | 2.840 |
| 86 | George Zettlein | 2.842 |
| 87 | Ed Reulbach | 2.844 |
| | Cy Young* | 2.844 |
| 89 | Tom Hughes | 2.845 |
| 90 | Toad Ramsey | 2.853 |
| 91 | Pat Ragan | 2.855 |
| 92 | Howie Camnitz | 2.857 |
| | J. R. Richard | 2.857 |
| 94 | Carl Weilman | 2.860 |
| 95 | Jesse Tannehill | 2.863 |
| 96 | Slim Sallee | 2.871 |
| 97 | Jim McCormick | 2.875 |
| 98 | Bill Bernhard | 2.877 |
| | Bob Rhoads | 2.877 |
| 100 | Bill Foster* | 2.881 |