who led the major leagues in earned run average in 1996

Rich Batchelor had the lowest ERA with an ERA worse than 0.00 in 1996, with an ERA of 1.20 in his rookie season.

	NAME	ERA	SEASON	TM	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	Rich Batchelor R. Batchelor	1.20	1996	STL	11	2	0	1.000	0	11	0	0	0	15.0	9	2	2	0	1	0	7	0	54	0	6.60	0.60	11.00	0.00	20.4	1.9	0.67	.214	1.20	29	1.90	44	5.40	4
2	Tom Thobe T. Thobe	1.50	1996	ATL	4	0	1	.000	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	5	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	24	0	1.50	0.00		1.50	4.2	0.0	0.83	.182	3.00	35	5.00	114	7.50	-0.4
3	Ricardo Jordan R. Jordan	1.80	1996	PHI	26	2	2	.500	0	17	0	0	0	25.0	18	5	6	0	12	0	2	0	103	1	6.12	4.32	1.42	0.00	16.5	11.7	1.20	.243	2.16	42	3.24	76	6.48	2.9
4	Andy Larkin A. Larkin	1.80	1996	FLA	1	0	0		1	2	0	0	0	5.0	3	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	22	0	3.60	7.20	0.50	0.00	9.1	18.2	1.40	.200	1.80	44	5.36	126	5.40	-0.6
5	John Franco J. Franco	1.83	1996	NYM	51	4	3	.571	0	48	0	0	28	54.0	54	11	15	2	21	0	44	0	235	2	8.00	3.50	2.29	0.33	20.4	8.9	1.39	.317	2.50	45	3.03	71	9.00	7.3
6	Greg McCarthy G. McCarthy	1.86	1996	SEA	10	0	0		0	7	0	0	0	9.2	8	2	2	0	4	4	1	0	45	0	6.52	3.72	1.75	0.00	15.6	8.9	1.24	.267	1.86	37	4.20	85	7.45	0.8
7	Larry Casian L. Casian	1.88	1996	CHC	35	1	1	.500	0	15	0	0	0	24.0	14	5	5	2	11	1	4	3	90	1	5.63	4.13	1.36	0.75	16.7	12.2	1.04	.197	1.88	44	4.50	104	5.25	-0.4
8	Kevin Brown K. Brown	1.89	1996	FLA	32	17	11	.607	32	159	5	3	0	233.0	187	49	60	8	33	16	0	2	906	6	6.14	1.27	4.82	0.31	17.5	3.6	0.94	.259	2.32	46	2.88	68	7.22	35.8
9	Roberto Hernandez R. Hernandez	1.91	1996	CWS	72	6	5	.545	0	85	0	0	38	84.2	65	18	21	2	38	0	61	5	355	6	9.04	4.04	2.24	0.21	23.9	10.7	1.22	.274	2.23	40	2.81	58	6.91	19.2
10	Robb Nen R. Nen	1.95	1996	FLA	75	5	1	.833	0	92	0	0	35	83.0	67	18	21	2	21	1	66	6	326	4	9.98	2.28	4.38	0.22	28.2	6.4	1.06	.310	2.28	47	2.05	48	7.27	20.4
11	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	2.09	1996	NYY	61	8	3	.727	0	130	0	0	5	107.2	73	25	25	1	34	2	14	3	425	1	10.87	2.84	3.82	0.08	30.6	8.0	0.99	.279	2.09	43	1.87	39	6.10	35.8
12	Mark Guthrie M. Guthrie	2.22	1996	LAD	66	2	3	.400	0	56	0	0	1	73.0	65	18	21	3	22	1	16	2	302	1	6.90	2.71	2.55	0.37	18.5	7.3	1.19	.282	2.59	57	3.11	75	8.01	8.7
13	Trevor Hoffman T. Hoffman	2.25	1996	SDP	70	9	5	.643	0	111	0	0	42	88.0	50	22	23	6	31	2	62	5	348	2	11.35	3.17	3.58	0.61	31.9	8.9	0.92	.222	2.35	57	2.65	62	5.11	15.7
14	Al Osuna A. Osuna	2.25	1996	SDP	10	0	0		0	4	0	0	0	4.0	5	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	20	1	9.00	4.50	2.00	0.00	20.0	10.0	1.75	.385	2.25	57	3.41	80	11.25	0.4
15	Scott Sullivan S. Sullivan	2.25	1996	CIN	7	0	0		0	3	0	0	0	8.0	7	2	2	0	5	1	4	0	35	1	3.38	5.63	0.60	0.00	8.6	14.3	1.50	.269	2.25	53	4.66	108	7.88	-0.3
16	Archie Corbin A. Corbin	2.30	1996	BAL	18	2	0	1.000	0	20	0	0	0	27.1	22	7	7	2	22	1	5	0	123	2	6.59	7.24	0.91	0.66	16.3	17.9	1.61	.256	2.30	47	5.18	105	7.24	-0.8
17	Troy Percival T. Percival	2.31	1996	CAL	62	0	2	.000	0	100	0	0	36	74.0	38	19	20	8	31	2	52	4	291	2	12.16	3.77	3.23	0.97	34.4	10.7	0.93	.200	2.43	46	3.20	65	4.62	14.4
18	Mike Oquist M. Oquist	2.35	1996	SDP	8	0	0		0	4	0	0	0	7.2	6	2	2	0	4	0	3	2	30	1	4.70	4.70	1.00	0.00	13.3	13.3	1.30	.273	2.35	59	3.68	87	7.04	0.5
19	Dave Pavlas D. Pavlas	2.35	1996	NYY	16	0	0		0	18	0	0	1	23.0	23	6	7	0	7	1	8	2	97	3	7.04	2.74	2.57	0.00	18.6	7.2	1.30	.324	2.74	48	2.64	55	9.00	5.6
20	Scott Radinsky S. Radinsky	2.41	1996	LAD	58	5	1	.833	0	48	0	0	1	52.1	52	14	19	2	17	0	19	5	221	0	8.25	2.92	2.82	0.34	21.7	7.7	1.32	.325	3.27	62	2.80	67	8.94	8.1
21	Jeff Brantley J. Brantley	2.41	1996	CIN	66	1	2	.333	0	76	0	0	44	71.0	54	19	21	7	28	0	61	6	288	2	9.63	3.55	2.71	0.89	26.4	9.7	1.15	.266	2.66	57	3.49	80	6.85	6.7
22	Ken Ryan K. Ryan	2.43	1996	PHI	62	3	5	.375	0	70	0	0	8	89.0	71	24	32	4	45	1	26	8	370	4	7.08	4.55	1.56	0.40	18.9	12.2	1.30	.268	3.24	57	3.72	87	7.18	5.6
23	Eric Plunk E. Plunk	2.43	1996	CLE	56	3	2	.600	0	85	0	0	2	77.2	56	21	21	6	34	3	12	2	318	4	9.85	3.94	2.50	0.70	26.7	10.7	1.16	.263	2.43	48	3.41	70	6.49	12.7
24	Billy Wagner B. Wagner	2.44	1996	HOU	37	2	2	.500	0	67	0	0	9	51.2	28	14	16	6	30	3	20	2	212	1	11.67	5.23	2.23	1.05	31.6	14.2	1.12	.208	2.79	61	4.00	98	4.88	0.4
25	Mike Holtz M. Holtz	2.45	1996	CAL	30	3	3	.500	0	31	0	0	0	29.1	21	8	11	1	19	3	8	2	127	1	9.51	5.83	1.63	0.31	24.4	15.0	1.36	.274	3.38	49	3.74	75	6.44	4