lowest fip by a rookie pitcher since 1920

Since 1920, Dwight Gooden has the lowest fielding-independent pitching by a rookie, with a FIP of 1.68 in 1984.

Interpreted as:

lowest fip with a minimum of 1 IP per team game by a rookie pitcher since 1920

	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	Dwight Gooden D. Gooden	1.68	1984	NYM	31	17	9	.654	31	2.60	276	7	3	0	218.0	161	63	72	7	73	2	0	2	879	3	11.39	3.01	3.78	0.29	31.4	8.3	1.07	.296	2.97	74	48	6.65	44.6
2	Bob Moose B. Moose	2.06	1968	PIT	38	8	12	.400	22	2.74	126	3	3	3	170.2	136	52	61	5	41	3	7	7	685	3	6.64	2.16	3.07	0.26	18.4	6.0	1.04	.257	3.22	93	74	7.17	14
3	Bill Singer B. Singer	2.22	1967	LAD	32	12	8	.600	29	2.64	169	7	3	0	204.1	185	60	68	5	61	8	1	11	854	10	7.44	2.69	2.77	0.22	19.8	7.1	1.20	.295	3.00	85	74	8.15	18.3
4	Gary Peters G. Peters	2.34	1963	CWS	41	19	8	.704	30	2.33	189	13	4	1	243.0	192	63	69	9	68	8	4	2	978	5	7.00	2.52	2.78	0.33	19.3	7.0	1.07	.260	2.56	67	67	7.11	32.1
5	Al Downing A. Downing	2.42	1963	NYY	24	13	5	.722	22	2.56	171	10	4	0	175.2	114	50	52	7	80	0	2	1	707	5	8.76	4.10	2.14	0.36	24.2	11.3	1.10	.238	2.66	73	68	5.84	22.3
6	Fernando Valenzuela F. Valenzuela	2.44	1981	LAD	25	13	7	.650	25	2.48	180	11	8	0	192.1	140	53	55	11	61	1	0	4	758	4	8.42	2.85	2.95	0.51	23.7	8.0	1.05	.255	2.57	73	72	6.55	20.4
7	Ken Forsch K. Forsch	2.52	1971	HOU	33	8	8	.500	23	2.53	131	7	2	0	188.1	162	53	60	8	53	4	4	5	771	8	6.26	2.53	2.47	0.38	17.0	6.9	1.14	.268	2.87	75	76	7.74	16.7
8	Don Sutton D. Sutton	2.53	1966	LAD	37	12	12	.500	35	2.99	209	6	2	0	225.2	192	75	82	19	52	3	0	6	916	5	8.34	2.07	4.02	0.76	22.8	5.7	1.08	.273	3.27	91	80	7.66	16.6
9	Tim Belcher T. Belcher	2.53	1988	LAD	36	12	6	.667	27	2.91	152	4	1	4	179.2	143	58	65	8	51	2	5	7	719	4	7.61	2.55	2.98	0.40	21.1	7.1	1.08	.267	3.26	88	74	7.16	17.6
10	John Montefusco J. Montefusco	2.55	1975	SFG	35	15	9	.625	34	2.88	215	10	4	0	243.2	210	78	85	11	86	8	1	12	1,018	6	7.94	3.18	2.50	0.41	21.1	8.4	1.21	.285	3.14	77	73	7.76	26.4
11	Stan Bahnsen S. Bahnsen	2.64	1968	NYY	37	17	12	.586	34	2.05	162	10	1	0	267.1	216	61	72	14	68	2	3	6	1,070	4	5.45	2.29	2.38	0.47	15.1	6.4	1.06	.245	2.42	73	88	7.27	10.1
12	Gary Nolan G. Nolan	2.64	1967	CIN	33	14	8	.636	32	2.58	206	8	5	0	226.2	193	65	73	18	62	5	1	7	932	3	8.18	2.46	3.32	0.71	22.1	6.7	1.13	.273	2.90	71	76	7.66	20.6
13	Jon Matlack J. Matlack	2.65	1972	NYM	34	15	10	.600	32	2.32	169	8	4	0	244.0	215	63	79	14	71	2	1	14	1,003	7	6.23	2.62	2.38	0.52	16.8	7.1	1.17	.269	2.91	69	81	7.93	16.5
14	Orel Hershiser O. Hershiser	2.65	1984	LAD	45	11	8	.579	20	2.66	150	8	4	2	189.2	160	56	65	9	50	4	10	8	771	8	7.12	2.37	3.00	0.43	19.5	6.5	1.11	.271	3.08	77	77	7.59	17.2
15	Jerry Koosman J. Koosman	2.70	1968	NYM	35	19	12	.613	34	2.08	178	17	7	0	263.2	221	61	72	16	69	8	0	7	1,058	8	6.08	2.36	2.58	0.55	16.8	6.5	1.10	.260	2.46	70	96	7.54	3.7
16	Ewell Blackwell E. Blackwell	2.70	1946	CIN	33	9	13	.409	25	2.45	100	10	5	0	194.1	160	53	62	1	79	4	5		803	4	4.63	3.66	1.27	0.05	12.5	9.8	1.23	.257	2.87	74	80	7.41	14.5
17	Ron Guidry R. Guidry	2.72	1977	NYY	31	16	7	.696	25	2.82	176	9	5	1	210.2	174	66	72	12	65	0	4	2	850	6	7.52	2.78	2.71	0.51	20.7	7.6	1.13	.271	3.08	72	68	7.43	30.5
18	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	2.72	2013	MIA	28	12	6	.667	28	2.19	187	0	0	0	172.2	111	42	47	10	58	5	0	5	681	3	9.75	3.02	3.22	0.52	27.5	8.5	0.98	.240	2.45	60	75	5.79	18.1
19	Ron Reed R. Reed	2.75	1968	ATL	35	11	10	.524	28	3.35	111	6	1	0	201.2	189	75	87	10	49	6	2	11	838	9	4.95	2.19	2.27	0.45	13.2	5.8	1.18	.270	3.88	111	96	8.43	2.5
20	Don Wilson D. Wilson	2.76	1967	HOU	31	10	9	.526	28	2.79	159	7	3	0	184.0	141	57	67	10	69	7	0	2	757	10	7.78	3.38	2.30	0.49	21.0	9.1	1.14	.256	3.28	85	87	6.90	8.2
21	Cy Blanton C. Blanton	2.77	1935	PIT	35	18	13	.581	30	2.58	142	23	4	1	254.1	220	73	93	3	55	2	3		1,041	7	5.02	1.95	2.58	0.11	13.6	5.3	1.08	.259	3.29	64	68	7.79	37.4
22	Butch Wensloff B. Wensloff	2.84	1943	NYY	29	13	11	.542	27	2.54	105	18	1	1	223.1	179	63	80	7	70	1	1		905	2	4.23	2.82	1.50	0.28	11.6	7.7	1.11	.238	3.22	77	84	7.21	13.1
23	Allie Reynolds A. Reynolds	2.84	1943	CLE	34	11	12	.478	21	2.99	151	11	3	3	198.2	140	66	72	3	109	7	9		819	4	6.84	4.94	1.39	0.14	18.4	13.3	1.25	.250	3.26	96	89	6.34	7.5
24	Hank Wyse H. Wyse	2.86	1943	CHC	38	9	7	.563	15	2.94	45	8	2	5	156.0	159	51	57	4	34	2	14		647	1	2.60	1.96	1.32	0.23	7.0	5.3	1.24	.276	3.29	89	88	9.17	6.6
25	Johnny Beazley J. Beazley	2.87	1942	SLN	43	21	6	.778	23	2.13	91	13	3	3	215.1	181	51	67	4	73	3	15		890	7	3.80	3.05	1.25	0.17	10.2	8.2	1.18	.246	2.80	63	82	7.57	15.3