Since 2000, Cade Smith has the lowest fielding-independent pitching when pitching at least 50 innings, with a FIP of 1.67.

Interpreted as:

best MLB fip by a player (min 50 ip) since 2000

	NAME	FIP	IP	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	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	Cade Smith C. Smith	1.67	149.0	150	14	6	.700	0	2.42	207	0	0	17	106	40	47	5	36	7	32	3	589	3	12.50	2.17	5.75	0.30	35.1	6.1	0.95	.302	2.84	60	41	6.40	40.4
2	Robb Nen R. Nen	2.20	217.1	215	14	10	.583	0	2.28	266	0	0	129	159	55	62	12	61	4	200	15	869	8	11.02	2.53	4.36	0.50	30.6	7.0	1.01	.279	2.57	55	53	6.58	50.2
3	Carson Smith C. Smith	2.32	102.0	108	4	6	.400	0	2.21	129	0	0	14	74	25	27	4	34	7	31	4	415	6	11.38	3.00	3.79	0.35	31.1	8.2	1.06	.290	2.38	55	58	6.53	19.3
4	Aroldis Chapman A. Chapman	2.36	821.1	863	60	47	.561	0	2.52	1,331	0	0	367	475	230	255	54	408	33	563	7	3,341	87	14.58	4.47	3.26	0.59	39.8	12.2	1.08	.278	2.79	61	57	5.20	161.8
5	Dellin Betances D. Betances	2.39	394.1	374	21	23	.477	1	2.53	633	0	0	36	240	111	124	26	183	28	86	5	1,613	28	14.45	4.18	3.46	0.59	39.2	11.3	1.07	.288	2.83	61	56	5.48	78.8
6	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	2.39	320.2	55	21	13	.618	55	1.96	386	1	0	0	230	70	76	21	74	12	0	0	1,247	4	10.83	2.08	5.22	0.59	31.0	5.9	0.95	.277	2.13	46	58	6.46	61
7	Emmanuel Clase E. Clase	2.43	360.0	366	21	25	.457	1	1.88	349	0	0	182	267	75	111	15	70	9	297	10	1,417	19	8.73	1.75	4.99	0.38	24.6	4.9	0.94	.259	2.78	45	58	6.68	68.8
8	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	2.43	471.1	76	38	17	.691	76	2.58	589	0	0	0	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	64	6.82	73
9	Devin Williams D. Williams	2.45	297.2	308	31	16	.660	0	2.45	465	0	0	86	174	81	100	20	137	15	126	4	1,211	17	14.06	4.14	3.39	0.60	38.4	11.3	1.04	.268	3.02	59	57	5.26	59.7
10	Ken Giles K. Giles	2.45	355.1	362	14	18	.438	0	2.71	484	0	0	115	283	107	121	28	114	5	208	5	1,454	24	12.26	2.89	4.25	0.71	33.3	7.8	1.12	.310	3.06	66	58	7.17	68
11	Mason Miller M. Miller	2.46	160.0	125	3	7	.300	6	2.81	246	0	0	50	88	50	57	13	65	5	81	5	622	8	13.84	3.66	3.78	0.73	39.5	10.5	0.96	.256	3.21	70	60	4.95	29.1
12	Edwin Díaz E. Díaz	2.55	519.1	520	28	36	.438	0	2.82	839	0	0	253	356	163	176	54	182	40	395	9	2,105	33	14.54	3.15	4.61	0.94	39.9	8.6	1.04	.305	3.05	70	61	6.17	93.4
13	Craig Kimbrel C. Kimbrel	2.60	821.2	851	56	48	.538	0	2.58	1,282	0	0	440	492	236	263	75	346	40	656	11	3,306	70	14.04	3.79	3.71	0.82	38.8	10.5	1.02	.267	2.88	63	64	5.39	131.8
14	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	2.61	907.0	849	56	47	.544	0	2.05	836	0	0	523	698	207	227	49	167	38	768	28	3,562	8	8.30	1.66	5.01	0.49	23.5	4.7	0.95	.263	2.25	46	59	6.93	180.9
15	Félix Bautista F. Bautista	2.61	161.1	156	13	7	.650	0	2.01	248	0	0	67	84	36	42	14	72	3	104	1	632	10	13.83	4.02	3.44	0.78	39.2	11.4	0.97	.237	2.34	51	65	4.69	25.9
16	Kenley Jansen K. Jansen	2.62	927.1	934	54	40	.574	0	2.57	1,278	0	0	475	610	265	284	88	282	32	700	20	3,680	21	12.40	2.74	4.53	0.85	34.7	7.7	0.96	.261	2.76	65	64	5.92	147.2
17	Felipe Vazquez F. Vazquez	2.65	330.2	323	17	13	.567	0	2.61	402	0	0	89	254	96	109	22	101	16	175	7	1,348	13	10.94	2.75	3.98	0.60	29.8	7.5	1.07	.287	2.97	63	64	6.91	55.7
18	Andrés Muñoz A. Muñoz	2.67	259.1	263	12	23	.343	0	2.43	354	0	0	78	166	70	84	17	104	16	124	12	1,046	19	12.29	3.61	3.40	0.59	33.8	9.9	1.04	.268	2.92	63	67	5.76	39.1
19	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	2.70	1539.2	248	96	65	.596	248	2.57	1,851	4	2	0	1,173	440	477	146	345	25	0	13	6,045	30	10.82	2.02	5.37	0.85	30.6	5.7	0.99	.279	2.79	66	66	6.86	239.4
20	Jhoan Duran J. Duran	2.71	254.1	246	18	25	.419	0	2.44	319	0	0	90	202	69	89	19	75	17	151	14	1,036	18	11.29	2.65	4.25	0.67	30.8	7.2	1.09	.302	3.15	60	66	7.15	39.7
21	Matt Svanson M. Svanson	2.71	60.1	39	4	0	1.000	0	1.94	68	0	0	0	33	13	14	3	20	4	10	0	234	1	10.14	2.98	3.40	0.45	29.1	8.5	0.88	.216	2.09	47	67	4.92	9.1
22	Trevor Rosenthal T. Rosenthal	2.74	364.0	373	12	25	.324	0	3.36	490	0	0	132	304	136	145	19	177	22	207	8	1,570	23	12.12	4.38	2.77	0.47	31.2	11.3	1.32	.331	3.59	85	70	7.52	48.2
23	Roberto Osuna R. Osuna	2.75	315.0	314	14	18	.438	0	2.74	348	0	0	155	230	96	101	28	55	13	247	6	1,227	17	9.94	1.57	6.33	0.80	28.4	4.5	0.90	.258	2.89	64	64	6.57	54.1
24	Jordan Walden J. Walden	2.76	222.0	243	12	14	.462	0	3.00	266	0	0	39	176	74	78	13	96	2	86	10	930	31	10.78	3.89	2.77	0.53	28.6	10.3	1.23	.295	3.16	79	73	7.14	26.4
25	Braxton Ashcraft B. Ashcraft	2.77	69.2	26	4	4	.500	8	2.71	71	0	0	0	63	21	22	3	24	2	6	1	292	1	9.17	3.10	2.96	0.39	24.3	8.2	1.25	.313	2.84	63	67	8.14	10.5