# List of Major League Baseball career WHIP leaders

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

* Stats updated as of the end of the 2024 season.
| Rank | Player | WHIP |
| 1 | Addie Joss* | 0.9678 |
| 2 | Jacob deGrom | 0.9941 |
| 3 | Ed Walsh* | 0.9996 |
| 4 | Mariano Rivera* | 1.0003 |
| 5 | Clayton Kershaw | 1.0096 |
| 6 | John Montgomery Ward* | 1.0435 |
| 7 | Chris Sale | 1.0443 |
| 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 | Max Scherzer | 1.0778 |
| 15 | Reb Russell | 1.0800 |
| 16 | Jim Devlin | 1.0868 |
| 17 | Smoky Joe Wood | 1.0869 |
| 18 | Gerrit Cole | 1.0885 |
| 19 | Jack Pfiester | 1.0887 |
| 20 | George Bradley | 1.0901 |
| 21 | Tommy Bond | 1.0908 |
| 22 | Babe Adams | 1.0920 |
| 23 | Stephen Strasburg | 1.0959 |
| 24 | Juan Marichal* | 1.1012 |
| | Satchel Paige* | 1.1012 |
| 26 | Dick Hall | 1.1019 |
| | Rube Waddell* | 1.1019 |
| 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 | Doc White | 1.1207 |
| 39 | Tom Seaver* | 1.1208 |
| 40 | Grover Cleveland Alexander* | 1.1212 |
| 41 | Tim Keefe* | 1.1230 |
| 42 | Hoyt Wilhelm* | 1.1245 |
| 43 | Justin Verlander | 1.1250 |
| 44 | Corey Kluber | 1.1293 |
| 45 | Masahiro Tanaka | 1.1296 |
| | Cy Young* | 1.1296 |
| 47 | Frank Owen | 1.1306 |
| 49 | George McQuillan | 1.1311 |
| 50 | 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 | Lady Baldwin | 1.1347 |
| 56 | Yu Darvish | 1.1360 |
| 57 | Aaron Nola | 1.1373 |
| 58 | Curt Schilling | 1.1374 |
| 59 | Bruce Sutter* | 1.1401 |
| 60 | Bret Saberhagen | 1.1406 |
| 61 | Nick Altrock | 1.1407 |
| 62 | Sam Leever | 1.1411 |
| 63 | Ferguson Jenkins* | 1.1418 |
| 64 | Don Sutton* | 1.1425 |
| 65 | Greg Maddux* | 1.1431 |
| | Ed Reulbach | 1.1431 |
| 67 | Andy Messersmith | 1.1433 |
| 68 | Sid Fernandez | 1.1443 |
| 69 | Jeff Tesreau | 1.1447 |
| 70 | Gary Nolan | 1.1453 |
| 71 | Joe Benz | 1.1466 |
| | Jim Whitney | 1.1466 |
| 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 |
| 81 | Madison Bumgarner | 1.1546 |
| 82 | Rollie Fingers* | 1.1556 |
| 83 | Bullet Rogan* | 1.1567 |
| 84 | Zack Wheeler | 1.1560 |
| 85 | Bob Caruthers | 1.1578 |
| 86 | Dick Rudolph | 1.1581 |
| 87 | Babe Ruth* | 1.1586 |
| 88 | Harry Coveleski | 1.1587 |
| 89 | Dennis Eckersley* | 1.1608 |
| 90 | Orval Overall | 1.1613 |
| 91 | David Price | 1.1625 |
| 92 | Denny McLain | 1.1633 |
| 93 | Jumbo McGinnis | 1.1636 |
| 94 | George Winter | 1.1649 |
| 95 | Frank Smith | 1.1658 |
| 96 | Carl Hubbell* | 1.1659 |
| 97 | Joe Musgrove | 1.1667 |
| 98 | Guy Hecker | 1.1676 |
| 99 | Jake Weimer | 1.1679 |
| 100 | Robin Roberts* | 1.1696 |