Dave Johnson had the highest fielding-independent pitching in 1990, with a FIP of 4.98.

Interpreted as:

highest fip with a minimum of 1 IP per team game by a player by season in 1990

	NAME	FIP	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	ERA-	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Dave Johnson D. Johnson	4.98	1990	BAL	30	13	9	.591	29	4.10	68	3	0	0	180.0	196	82	83	30	43	3	0	2	758	1	3.40	2.15	1.58	1.50	9.0	5.7	1.33	.270	4.15	107	127	9.80	-21.4
2	Charlie Hough C. Hough	4.97	1990	TEX	32	12	12	.500	32	4.07	114	5	0	0	218.2	190	99	108	24	119	11	0	2	950	4	4.69	4.90	0.96	0.99	12.0	12.5	1.41	.243	4.45	104	127	7.82	-25.7
3	Dennis Rasmussen D. Rasmussen	4.86	1990	SDP	32	11	15	.423	32	4.51	86	3	1	0	187.2	217	94	110	28	62	3	0	4	825	9	4.12	2.97	1.39	1.34	10.4	7.5	1.49	.293	5.28	118	125	10.41	-19.2
4	Frank Tanana F. Tanana	4.63	1990	DET	34	9	8	.529	29	5.31	114	1	0	1	176.1	190	104	104	25	66	9	4	7	763	5	5.82	3.37	1.73	1.28	14.9	8.7	1.45	.301	5.31	136	115	9.70	-11.2
5	Bill Gullickson B. Gullickson	4.43	1990	HOU	32	10	14	.417	32	3.82	73	2	1	0	193.1	221	82	100	21	61	2	0	14	846	3	3.40	2.84	1.20	0.98	8.6	7.2	1.46	.290	4.66	105	123	10.29	-19.4
6	Mike Scott M. Scott	4.31	1990	HOU	32	9	13	.409	32	3.81	121	4	2	0	205.2	194	87	102	27	66	1	0	6	871	1	5.29	2.89	1.83	1.18	13.9	7.6	1.26	.255	4.46	105	120	8.49	-17.6
7	Mike Moore M. Moore	4.29	1990	OAK	33	13	15	.464	33	4.65	73	3	0	0	199.1	204	103	113	14	84	3	0	2	862	13	3.30	3.79	0.87	0.63	8.5	9.7	1.44	.276	5.10	125	113	9.21	-11.7
8	Jim Deshaies J. Deshaies	4.29	1990	HOU	34	7	12	.368	34	3.78	119	2	0	0	209.1	186	88	93	21	84	8	0	9	881	3	5.12	3.61	1.42	0.90	13.5	9.5	1.29	.254	4.00	104	119	8.00	-17.4
9	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	4.28	1990	SEA	33	14	11	.560	33	3.65	194	5	2	0	219.2	174	89	103	26	120	5	0	2	944	4	7.95	4.92	1.62	1.07	20.6	12.7	1.34	.247	4.22	92	107	7.13	-6.8
10	Scott Sanderson S. Sanderson	4.28	1990	OAK	34	17	11	.607	34	3.88	128	2	1	0	206.1	205	89	99	27	66	4	0	2	885	7	5.58	2.88	1.94	1.18	14.5	7.5	1.31	.270	4.32	105	113	8.94	-11.8
11	Scott Garrelts S. Garrelts	4.27	1990	SFG	31	12	11	.522	31	4.15	80	4	2	0	182.0	190	84	91	16	70	3	0	8	786	7	3.96	3.46	1.14	0.79	10.2	8.9	1.43	.282	4.50	113	114	9.40	-10.7
12	Bob Welch B. Welch	4.19	1990	OAK	35	27	6	.818	35	2.95	127	2	2	0	238.0	214	78	90	26	77	5	0	4	979	2	4.80	2.91	1.65	0.98	13.0	7.9	1.22	.253	3.40	79	110	8.09	-11.1
13	Jack Morris J. Morris	4.09	1990	DET	36	15	18	.455	36	4.51	162	11	3	0	249.2	231	125	144	26	97	6	0	13	1,073	16	5.84	3.50	1.67	0.94	15.1	9.0	1.31	.262	5.19	115	102	8.33	-1.5
14	Pete Harnisch P. Harnisch	4.06	1990	BAL	31	11	11	.500	31	4.34	122	3	0	0	188.2	189	91	96	17	86	1	0	5	821	2	5.82	4.10	1.42	0.81	14.9	10.5	1.46	.289	4.58	113	104	9.02	-3.2
15	Tom Browning T. Browning	4.05	1990	CIN	35	15	9	.625	35	3.80	99	2	1	0	227.2	235	96	98	24	52	5	0	13	957	5	3.91	2.06	1.90	0.95	10.3	5.4	1.26	.272	3.87	97	102	9.29	-1.3
16	Fernando Valenzuela F. Valenzuela	4.02	1990	LAD	33	13	13	.500	33	4.59	115	5	2	0	204.0	223	104	112	19	77	0	0	4	900	13	5.07	3.40	1.49	0.84	12.8	8.6	1.47	.296	4.94	124	108	9.84	-7.2
17	Allan Anderson A. Anderson	4.01	1990	MIN	31	7	18	.280	31	4.53	82	5	1	0	188.2	214	95	106	20	39	5	0	1	797	4	3.91	1.86	2.10	0.95	10.3	4.9	1.34	.298	5.06	112	103	10.21	-2.1
18	Mark Knudson M. Knudson	3.98	1990	MIL	30	10	9	.526	27	4.12	56	4	2	0	168.1	187	77	84	14	40	3	0	1	719	6	2.99	2.14	1.40	0.75	7.8	5.6	1.35	.285	4.49	108	103	10.00	-2.2
19	Todd Stottlemyre T. Stottlemyre	3.96	1990	TOR	33	13	17	.433	33	4.34	115	4	0	0	203.0	214	98	101	18	69	8	0	4	866	6	5.10	3.06	1.67	0.80	13.3	8.0	1.39	.299	4.48	110	98	9.49	1.8
20	Pat Combs P. Combs	3.94	1990	PHI	32	10	10	.500	31	4.07	108	3	2	0	183.1	179	83	90	12	86	4	0	7	800	9	5.30	4.22	1.26	0.59	13.5	10.8	1.45	.283	4.42	106	103	8.79	-2.3
21	Bud Black B. Black	3.93	1990	TOT	32	13	11	.542	31	3.57	106	5	2	0	206.2	181	82	86	19	61	5	1	1	857	6	4.62	2.66	1.74	0.83	12.4	7.1	1.17	.243	3.75	90	101	7.88	-1.1
22	Mike Bielecki M. Bielecki	3.92	1990	CHC	36	8	11	.421	29	4.93	103	0	0	1	168.0	188	92	101	13	70	5	6	11	749	11	5.52	3.75	1.47	0.70	13.8	9.3	1.54	.314	5.41	124	101	10.07	-0.9
23	Tom Candiotti T. Candiotti	3.92	1990	CLE	31	15	11	.577	29	3.65	128	3	1	0	202.0	207	82	92	23	55	6	1	1	856	9	5.70	2.45	2.33	1.02	15.0	6.4	1.30	.286	4.10	92	101	9.22	-1.2
24	Mike Harkey M. Harkey	3.91	1990	CHC	27	12	6	.667	27	3.26	94	2	1	0	173.2	153	63	71	14	59	7	0	8	728	8	4.87	3.06	1.59	0.73	12.9	8.1	1.22	.251	3.68	82	101	7.93	-0.6
25	Mike Morgan M. Morgan	3.89	1990	LAD	33	11	15	.423	33	3.75	106	6	4	0	211.0	216	88	100	19	60	5	0	5	891	4	4.52	2.56	1.77	0.81	11.9	6.7	1.31	.281	4.27	101	105	9.21	-4.5