who has the lowest career era since 1980

Since 1980, J.R. Richard has the best ERA, with an ERA of 1.90.

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Who has the lowest career era with a minimum of 0.5 IP per team game since 1980?

	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	J.R. Richard	1.90	17	10	4	.714	17	119	4	4	0	113.2	65	24	31	2	40	0	0	1	438	2	9.42	3.17	2.98	0.16	27.2	9.1	0.92	.227	2.45	56	1.93	56	5.15	19.9
2	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	2.37	75	29	21	.580	75	516	1	0	0	429.0	317	113	126	32	98	19	0	0	1,687	5	10.83	2.06	5.27	0.67	30.6	5.8	0.97	.279	2.64	55	2.51	61	6.65	77.3
3	Cam Schlittler C. Schlittler	2.39	34	13	8	.619	34	221	0	0	0	191.2	145	51	58	20	56	8	0	0	773	3	10.38	2.63	3.95	0.94	28.6	7.2	1.05	.267	2.72	59	3.16	74	6.81	23.2
4	Tom Burgmeier T. Burgmeier	2.44	200	25	16	.610	0	180	0	0	38	380.0	350	103	122	18	99	8	106	26	1,557	5	4.26	2.34	1.82	0.43	11.6	6.4	1.18	.265	2.89	60	3.22	81	8.29	33.1
5	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
6	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
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	2.63	266	103	70	.595	266	1,973	4	2	0	1640.1	1,253	479	516	162	367	25	0	15	6,446	33	10.83	2.01	5.38	0.89	30.6	5.7	0.99	.278	2.83	67	2.74	67	6.87	248
9	Jake Bennett J. Bennett	2.64	8	4	3	.571	8	35	0	0	0	47.2	37	14	14	3	8	1	0	1	182	1	6.61	1.51	4.38	0.57	19.2	4.4	0.94	.252	2.64	61	3.01	72	6.99	6.2
10	Jacob Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	2.64	33	15	7	.682	32	254	1	1	0	177.0	108	52	61	17	58	11	0	0	695	6	12.92	2.95	4.38	0.86	36.5	8.3	0.94	.256	3.10	63	2.65	63	5.49	30.3
11	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
12	Yoshinobu Yamamoto Y. Yamamoto	2.72	65	28	16	.636	65	412	0	0	0	374.1	267	113	121	33	106	7	0	1	1,477	9	9.91	2.55	3.89	0.79	27.9	7.2	1.00	.255	2.91	65	2.98	70	6.42	52.6
13	Parker Messick P. Messick	2.73	26	11	6	.647	26	148	0	0	0	151.2	130	46	48	14	42	1	0	2	610	5	8.78	2.49	3.52	0.83	24.3	6.9	1.13	.286	2.85	66	3.20	77	7.71	15.9
14	Dan Quisenberry D. Quisenberry	2.74	642	53	44	.546	0	366	0	0	239	1003.1	1,022	306	340	54	155	7	532	65	4,084	3	3.28	1.39	2.36	0.48	9.0	3.8	1.17	.276	3.05	69	3.19	81	9.17	82.2
15	Spencer Miles S. Miles	2.85	26	4	1	.800	3	57	0	0	0	60.0	47	19	21	4	19	0	6	0	243	1	8.55	2.85	3.00	0.60	23.5	7.8	1.10	.264	3.15	69	3.01	71	7.05	8.1
16	Walbert Ureña W. Ureña	2.88	17	5	7	.417	15	78	0	0	0	81.1	61	26	33	5	46	7	0	1	354	3	8.63	5.09	1.70	0.55	22.0	13.0	1.32	.257	3.65	68	3.93	93	6.75	2.7
17	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	2.93	476	219	100	.687	409	3,154	46	17	3	2827.1	2,221	919	1,006	239	760	141	23	30	11,394	62	10.04	2.42	4.15	0.76	27.7	6.7	1.05	.279	3.20	66	2.91	68	7.07	454.6
18	Drew Rasmussen D. Rasmussen	2.96	148	37	22	.627	99	526	0	0	2	560.0	449	184	196	53	136	14	17	3	2,232	22	8.45	2.19	3.87	0.85	23.6	6.1	1.04	.263	3.15	73	3.29	80	7.22	51.1
19	Kwang-Hyun Kim K. Kim	2.97	35	10	7	.588	28	104	0	0	2	145.2	126	48	55	15	51	4	3	4	606	5	6.43	3.15	2.04	0.93	17.2	8.4	1.22	.257	3.40	72	4.21	100	7.78	-0.4
20	Kent Tekulve K. Tekulve	2.97	687	59	68	.465	0	466	0	0	101	896.1	846	296	339	42	301	10	424	120	3,771	9	4.68	3.02	1.55	0.42	12.4	8.0	1.28	.272	3.40	80	3.35	91	8.49	34.2
21	Chris Sale C. Sale	2.97	410	154	94	.621	329	2,696	16	3	12	2182.0	1,776	721	779	221	512	139	25	15	8,792	48	11.12	2.11	5.27	0.91	30.7	5.8	1.05	.298	3.21	70	2.87	68	7.33	318.1
22	Greg Minton G. Minton	2.99	637	53	56	.486	1	422	0	0	146	978.2	936	325	373	39	421	11	389	119	4,167	41	3.88	3.87	1.00	0.36	10.1	10.1	1.39	.274	3.43	83	3.72	101	8.61	-2.5
23	Shane McClanahan S. McClanahan	2.99	91	41	21	.661	91	538	0	0	0	490.2	400	163	176	54	144	7	0	1	1,981	22	9.87	2.64	3.74	0.99	27.2	7.3	1.11	.279	3.23	75	3.31	82	7.34	39.7
24	Al Holland A. Holland	3.00	379	34	30	.531	11	505	0	0	78	636.2	541	212	239	55	227	5	216	54	2,670	12	7.14	3.21	2.22	0.78	18.9	8.5	1.21	.259	3.38	83	3.34	93	7.65	17.5
25	Mark Eichhorn M. Eichhorn	3.00	563	48	43	.527	7	640	0	0	32	885.2	825	295	328	49	270	40	226	63	3,702	25	6.50	2.74	2.37	0.50	17.3	7.3	1.24	.287	3.33	72	3.17	76	8.38	100.3

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