lowest career era in mlb since 1920 including closers

Since 1920, Paul Skenes has the lowest ERA, with an ERA of 2.06.

Interpreted as:

lowest career era with a minimum of 0.5 IP per team game by a player in MLB since 1920 including closers

	NAME	ERA	G	W	L	W%	GS	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	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	2.06	65	27	16	.628	65	449	1	0	0	375.2	261	86	94	26	82	16	0	0	1,455	5	10.76	1.96	5.48	0.62	30.9	5.6	0.91	.266	2.25	49	2.43	59	6.25	69.7
2	Cam Schlittler C. Schlittler	2.23	24	10	4	.714	24	152	0	0	0	133.0	94	33	35	10	42	5	0	0	530	3	10.29	2.84	3.62	0.68	28.7	7.9	1.02	.262	2.37	55	2.87	67	6.36	20.2
3	Mike Vasil M. Vasil	2.50	47	5	3	.625	3	82	0	0	4	101.0	74	28	32	8	52	8	17	5	423	4	7.31	4.63	1.58	0.71	19.4	12.3	1.25	.242	2.85	61	4.32	100	6.59	-0.1
4	Hoyt Wilhelm H. Wilhelm	2.52	1,070	143	122	.540	52	1,610	20	5	228	2254.1	1,757	632	773	150	778	62	651	61	9,164	90	6.43	3.11	2.07	0.60	17.6	8.5	1.12	.245	3.09	68	3.06	82	7.01	167.6
5	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	2.53	455	223	96	.699	451	3,052	25	15	0	2855.1	2,193	804	881	235	713	46	1	28	11,279	108	9.62	2.25	4.28	0.74	27.1	6.3	1.02	.271	2.78	65	2.85	70	6.91	375.7
6	Spencer Miles S. Miles	2.55	13	1	0	1.000	1	23	0	0	0	24.2	20	7	9	2	7	0	5	0	100	1	8.39	2.55	3.29	0.73	23.0	7.0	1.09	.265	3.28	62	3.14	75	7.30	2.9
7	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	2.58	76	38	17	.691	76	589	0	0	0	471.1	357	135	150	31	140	13	0	12	1,888	16	11.25	2.67	4.21	0.59	31.2	7.4	1.05	.292	2.86	68	2.43	64	6.82	73
8	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	2.59	257	99	68	.593	257	1,912	4	2	0	1590.1	1,211	457	494	156	353	25	0	14	6,242	32	10.82	2.00	5.42	0.88	30.6	5.7	0.98	.278	2.80	66	2.73	67	6.85	241.3
9	Butch Wensloff B. Wensloff	2.60	41	16	13	.552	32	125	19	1	1	276.2	222	80	99	11	95	1	5		1,128	2	4.07	3.09	1.32	0.36	11.1	8.4	1.15	.235	3.22	77	3.09	89	7.22	10.6
10	Cade Horton C. Horton	2.66	25	12	4	.750	24	101	0	0	0	125.1	99	37	42	11	35	6	0	0	502	1	7.25	2.51	2.89	0.79	20.1	7.0	1.07	.252	3.02	64	3.64	90	7.11	5.7
11	Walbert Ureña W. Ureña	2.70	8	1	4	.200	6	30	0	0	0	33.1	26	10	16	2	19	1	0	1	145	2	8.10	5.13	1.58	0.54	20.7	13.1	1.35	.258	4.32	64	3.88	92	7.02	1.2
12	Bob Lee B. Lee	2.71	269	25	23	.521	7	315	0	0	64	492.0	402	148	177	31	196	5	152	35	2,044	12	5.76	3.59	1.61	0.57	15.4	9.6	1.22	.248	3.24	81	3.30	98	7.35	5.7
13	Tim Burke T. Burke	2.72	498	49	33	.598	2	444	0	0	102	699.1	624	211	251	49	219	21	262	71	2,906	25	5.71	2.82	2.03	0.63	15.3	7.5	1.21	.265	3.23	75	3.45	93	8.03	19.9
14	Arnold Carter A. Carter	2.72	46	13	11	.542	24	37	11	4	3	195.1	197	59	75	3	53	5	15		826	1	1.70	2.44	0.70	0.14	4.5	6.4	1.28	.266	3.46	76	3.25	92	9.08	6.2
15	Ray Fisher R. Fisher	2.73	33	10	11	.476	21	56	10	1	1	201.0	189	61	86	5	50	8	8		846	1	2.51	2.24	1.12	0.22	6.6	5.9	1.19	.253	3.85	91	3.38	107	8.46	-6.2
16	Whitey Ford W. Ford	2.75	498	236	106	.690	438	1,956	156	45	11	3170.1	2,766	967	1,107	228	1,086	28	35	44	13,036	75	5.55	3.08	1.80	0.65	15.0	8.3	1.22	.261	3.14	75	3.26	88	7.85	156.9
17	Bob Locker B. Locker	2.75	576	57	39	.594	0	577	0	0	95	879.0	776	269	329	40	257	36	288	80	3,643	37	5.91	2.63	2.25	0.41	15.8	7.1	1.18	.269	3.37	82	2.79	80	7.95	68.1
18	Dan Quisenberry D. Quisenberry	2.76	674	56	46	.549	0	379	0	0	244	1043.1	1,064	320	356	59	162	7	553	70	4,247	4	3.27	1.40	2.34	0.51	8.9	3.8	1.18	.276	3.07	69	3.23	82	9.18	81.6
19	Sandy Koufax S. Koufax	2.76	397	165	87	.655	314	2,396	137	40	9	2324.1	1,754	713	806	204	817	18	44	48	9,497	87	9.28	3.16	2.93	0.79	25.2	8.6	1.11	.256	3.12	75	2.69	75	6.79	226.6
20	Yoshinobu Yamamoto Y. Yamamoto	2.78	57	22	14	.611	57	362	0	0	0	320.2	234	99	107	30	93	5	0	0	1,273	8	10.16	2.61	3.89	0.84	28.4	7.3	1.02	.261	3.00	67	3.01	71	6.57	42.4
21	Dick Hughes D. Hughes	2.79	68	20	9	.690	34	230	13	4	8	307.0	221	95	101	29	76	7	17	12	1,205	8	6.74	2.23	3.03	0.85	19.1	6.3	0.97	.222	2.96	86	3.05	97	6.48	3.4
22	Ron Perranoski R. Perranoski	2.79	737	79	74	.516	1	687	0	0	178	1174.2	1,097	364	442	50	468	24	458	121	5,023	28	5.26	3.59	1.47	0.38	13.7	9.3	1.33	.276	3.39	82	3.17	93	8.40	30.6
23	Dick Lines D. Lines	2.83	107	7	7	.500	0	103	0	0	6	168.2	146	53	66	10	48	1	41	13	696	6	5.50	2.56	2.15	0.53	14.8	6.9	1.15	.255	3.52	87	2.97	87	7.79	8.1
24	Bruce Sutter B. Sutter	2.83	661	68	71	.489	0	861	0	0	300	1042.0	879	328	370	77	309	13	512	83	4,251	37	7.44	2.67	2.79	0.67	20.3	7.3	1.14	.268	3.20	75	2.93	80	7.59	88
25	John Hiller J. Hiller	2.83	545	87	76	.534	43	1,036	13	6	125	1242.0	1,040	391	438	110	535	12	363	71	5,206	39	7.51	3.88	1.94	0.80	19.9	10.3	1.27	.265	3.17	75	3.38	89	7.54	58.9

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