The lowest single-season ERA in league history was posted by Tim Keefe, whose 0.86 ERA in 105 innings pitched for the National League’s Troy Trojans in 1880 led his closest competitor by . 52 runs. In the American League, Dutch Leonard’s 0.96 ERA is a single-season record.
Ed Walsh holds the MLB earned run average record with a 1.816.
J. VerlanderHOUMLB Stat Leaders 2022
EARNED RUN AVERAGE | ERA |
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1 J. VerlanderHOU | 1.82 |
2 D. CeaseCHW | 2.06 |
3 J. UriasLAD | 2.25 |
4 A. ManoahTOR | 2.31 |
WHIP reflects a pitcher’s propensity for allowing batters to reach base, therefore a lower WHIP indicates better performance. While earned run average (ERA) measures the runs a pitcher gives up, WHIP more directly measures a pitcher’s effectiveness against batters.
ERA is the most commonly accepted statistical tool for evaluating pitchers. The formula for finding ERA is: 9 x earned runs / innings pitched. If a pitcher exits a game with runners on base, any earned runs scored by those runners will count against him.
In general, an ERA in the range of 4.00 – 5.00 is considered a good career ERA, with the best pitchers being below 2.00. According to Baseball Almanac, Ed Walsh is credited with holding the career record for ERA with 1.82.
Interpreted as:
NAME | SEASON | ERA- |
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Adam Wainwright | 2021 | 76 |
Lance McCullers Jr. | 2021 | 76 |
Anthony DeSclafani | 2021 | 78 |
Joe Musgrove | 2021 | 78 |
For starting pitchers the top and bottom 20th percentile are a K/9 above 7.56 and below 4.89. Relievers top and bottom 20th percentiles are a K/9 above 8.94 and below 5.54. Variations: Some people prefer to use strikeouts per batter faced (K% or K/G) to express a player’s ability to strike batters out.
Earned Run Average
| colspan=“3”>Earned Run Average All Time Leaders | ‘Top 1,000’ | | — | | Name | ERA (Raw ERA) | Rank | | Ed Walsh | 1.82 (1.816) | 1 | | Addie Joss | 1.89 (1.887) | 2 | | Jim Devlin | 1.89 (1.890) | 3 |
Active Leaders & Records for Earned Run Average
Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Earned Run Average |
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1. | Clayton Kershaw (15, 34) | 2.485 |
2. | Jacob deGrom (9, 34) | 2.489 |
3. | Chris Sale (12, 33) | 3.030 |
4. | Max Scherzer (15, 37) | 3.107 |
Year | National League | ERA |
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2022 (NL AL) | Julio Urias* (LAD) | 1.84 |
2021 (NL AL) | Corbin Burnes (MIL) | 2.84 |
2020 (NL AL) | Trevor Bauer (CIN) | 1.63 |
2019 (NL AL) | Hyun Jin Ryu* (LAD) | 2.50 |
Year | National League | ERA |
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2022 (NL AL) | Julio Urias* (LAD) | 1.84 |
2021 (NL AL) | Corbin Burnes (MIL) | 2.84 |
2020 (NL AL) | Trevor Bauer (CIN) | 1.63 |
2019 (NL AL) | Hyun Jin Ryu* (LAD) | 2.50 |
Year | National League | ERA |
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2022 (NL AL) | Julio Urias* (LAD) | 1.84 |
2021 (NL AL) | Corbin Burnes (MIL) | 2.84 |
2020 (NL AL) | Trevor Bauer (CIN) | 1.63 |
2019 (NL AL) | Hyun Jin Ryu* (LAD) | 2.50 |
2022 Hitter Rankings: Top 150 Rest of Season (Updated: 8/14/2022)
Rank | Name | Team |
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1 | Jose Ramirez | CLE |
2 | Aaron Judge | NYY |
3 | Trea Turner | LAD |
4 | Juan Soto | SDP |
2022 Hitter Rankings: Top 150 Rest of Season (Updated: 8/14/2022)
Rank | Name | Team |
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1 | Jose Ramirez | CLE |
2 | Aaron Judge | NYY |
3 | Trea Turner | LAD |
4 | Juan Soto | SDP |
Major League Baseball Pitching Leaders
1. | Verlander • HOU | 0.855 |
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2. | McClanahan • TBR | 0.862 |
3. | Gallen • ARI | 0.908 |
4. | Urias • LAD | 0.950 |
5. | Nola • PHI | 0.970 |
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1. | Freeman • LAD | .328 |
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2. | Goldschmidt • STL | .319 |
3. | McNeil • NYM | .318 |
4. | Bogaerts • BOS | .315 |
5. | Judge • NYY | .314 |
Strikeout to walk ratio helps us find those pitchers. Over the last three years, the average strikeout to walk ratio for a starting pitcher is 2.8, meaning pitchers on average strikeout 2.8 hitters for every one they walk.
Definition. WHIP is one of the most commonly used statistics for evaluating a pitcher’s performance. The statistic shows how well a pitcher has kept runners off the basepaths, one of his main goals. The formula is simple enough – it’s the sum of a pitcher’s walks and hits, divided by his total innings pitched.
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1. | Freeman • LAD | .328 |
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2. | Goldschmidt • STL | .319 |
3. | McNeil • NYM | .318 |
4. | Bogaerts • BOS | .315 |
5. | Judge • NYY | .314 |
Strikeout to walk ratio helps us find those pitchers. Over the last three years, the average strikeout to walk ratio for a starting pitcher is 2.8, meaning pitchers on average strikeout 2.8 hitters for every one they walk.
Generally, 14 year old average cruising speed would be about 65 mph. Average freshman pitcher (14 to 15 year old) cruising speed would be about 70 mph. Average cruising speed for a good high school pitching prospect at 14 to 15 years old would be about 75 mph.