lowest fip in a season in the live-ball era

Since 1920, Pedro Martinez has the lowest fielding-independent pitching in a season, with a FIP of 1.38 in 1999.

Interpreted as:

lowest fip with a minimum of 1 IP per team game by a player in a season in the live-ball era

	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	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	1.38	1999	BOS	31	23	4	.852	29	2.07	313	5	1	0	213.1	160	49	56	9	37	9	1	1	835	6	13.20	1.56	8.46	0.38	37.5	4.4	0.92	.323	2.36	42	30	6.75	79.4
2	Corbin Burnes C. Burnes	1.62	2021	MIL	28	11	5	.688	28	2.43	234	0	0	0	167.0	123	45	47	7	34	6	0	0	657	5	12.61	1.83	6.88	0.38	35.6	5.2	0.94	.309	2.53	58	38	6.63	48.9
3	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
4	Bob Gibson B. Gibson	1.77	1968	STL	34	22	9	.710	34	1.12	268	28	13	0	304.2	198	38	49	11	62	7	0	6	1,161	4	7.92	1.83	4.32	0.32	23.1	5.3	0.85	.230	1.45	38	63	5.85	34.8
5	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	1.81	2014	LAD	27	21	3	.875	27	1.77	239	6	2	0	198.1	139	39	42	9	31	2	0	0	749	7	10.85	1.41	7.71	0.41	31.9	4.1	0.86	.278	1.91	51	50	6.31	40.5
6	Sandy Koufax S. Koufax	1.85	1963	LAD	40	25	5	.833	40	1.88	306	20	11	0	311.0	214	65	68	18	58	3	0	7	1,210	6	8.86	1.68	5.28	0.52	25.3	4.8	0.87	.238	1.97	62	62	6.19	41.9
7	Tom Seaver T. Seaver	1.93	1971	NYM	36	20	10	.667	35	1.76	289	21	4	0	286.1	210	56	61	18	61	4	1	2	1,103	5	9.08	1.92	4.74	0.57	26.2	5.5	0.95	.263	1.92	52	58	6.60	44.5
8	Sandy Koufax S. Koufax	1.93	1965	LAD	43	26	8	.765	41	2.04	382	27	8	2	335.2	216	76	90	26	71	5	2	4	1,297	11	10.24	1.90	5.38	0.70	29.5	5.5	0.86	.234	2.41	63	61	5.79	47.9
9	Hal Newhouser H. Newhouser	1.96	1946	DET	37	26	9	.743	34	1.94	275	29	6	1	292.2	215	63	77	10	98	1	2		1,176	8	8.46	3.01	2.81	0.31	23.4	8.3	1.07	.259	2.37	54	56	6.61	49.6
10	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	1.98	2018	NYM	32	10	9	.526	32	1.70	269	1	0	0	217.0	152	41	48	10	46	5	0	3	835	2	11.16	1.91	5.85	0.41	32.2	5.5	0.91	.281	1.99	44	50	6.30	49
11	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	1.98	2015	LAD	33	16	7	.696	33	2.13	301	4	3	0	232.2	163	55	62	15	42	5	0	1	890	9	11.64	1.62	7.17	0.58	33.8	4.7	0.88	.281	2.40	57	52	6.31	47.7
12	Matt Harvey M. Harvey	2.00	2013	NYM	26	9	5	.643	26	2.27	191	1	1	0	178.1	135	45	46	7	31	4	0	1	690	2	9.64	1.56	6.16	0.35	27.7	4.5	0.93	.280	2.32	64	53	6.81	34.9
13	Steve Carlton S. Carlton	2.00	1972	PHI	41	27	10	.730	41	1.97	310	30	8	0	346.1	257	76	84	17	87	1	0	8	1,351	8	8.06	2.26	3.56	0.44	22.9	6.4	0.99	.256	2.18	56	59	6.68	53.5
14	Luis Tiant L. Tiant	2.04	1968	CLE	34	21	9	.700	32	1.60	264	19	9	0	258.1	152	46	53	16	73	4	0	4	987	3	9.20	2.54	3.62	0.56	26.7	7.4	0.87	.216	1.85	53	64	5.30	33
15	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	2.06	2020	CLE	12	8	1	.889	12	1.63	122	0	0	0	77.1	46	14	15	7	21	1	0	0	297	5	14.20	2.44	5.81	0.81	41.1	7.1	0.87	.267	1.75	37	46	5.35	20.5
16	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
17	Sandy Koufax S. Koufax	2.07	1966	LAD	41	27	9	.750	41	1.73	317	27	5	0	323.0	241	62	74	19	77	0	0	4	1,274	7	8.83	2.15	4.12	0.53	24.9	6.0	0.98	.258	2.06	53	65	6.72	41.8
18	Sandy Koufax S. Koufax	2.08	1964	LAD	29	19	5	.792	28	1.74	223	15	7	1	223.0	154	43	49	13	53	0	1	5	870	9	9.00	2.14	4.21	0.52	25.6	6.1	0.93	.243	1.98	53	67	6.22	27.1
19	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	2.08	1995	SEA	30	18	2	.900	30	2.48	294	6	3	0	214.1	159	59	65	12	65	6	0	1	866	5	12.35	2.73	4.52	0.50	33.9	7.5	1.05	.301	2.73	53	44	6.68	62
20	Chris Sale C. Sale	2.08	2024	ATL	29	18	3	.857	29	2.38	225	0	0	0	177.2	141	47	48	9	39	8	0	0	702	4	11.40	1.98	5.77	0.46	32.1	5.6	1.01	.314	2.43	57	52	7.14	38.1
21	Sam McDowell S. McDowell	2.08	1965	CLE	42	17	11	.607	35	2.18	325	14	3	4	273.0	178	66	80	9	132	6	5	7	1,116	17	10.71	4.35	2.46	0.30	29.1	11.8	1.14	.262	2.64	63	58	5.87	45.4
22	Don Sutton D. Sutton	2.08	1968	LAD	35	11	15	.423	27	2.60	162	7	2	1	207.2	179	60	64	6	59	2	6	14	847	4	7.02	2.56	2.75	0.26	19.1	7.0	1.15	.280	2.77	95	80	7.76	12.1
23	Bill Gullickson B. Gullickson	2.11	1981	MON	22	7	9	.438	22	2.80	115	3	2	0	157.1	142	49	54	3	34	4	0	4	640	4	6.58	1.94	3.38	0.17	18.0	5.3	1.12	.287	3.09	80	62	8.12	22.5
24	Bob Veale B. Veale	2.11	1965	PIT	39	17	12	.586	37	2.84	276	14	7	0	266.0	221	84	98	5	119	7	2	7	1,126	17	9.34	4.03	2.32	0.17	24.5	10.6	1.28	.300	3.32	80	62	7.48	38.8
25	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	2.12	2001	ARI	35	21	6	.778	34	2.49	372	3	2	0	249.2	181	69	74	19	71	18	1	2	994	8	13.41	2.56	5.24	0.68	37.4	7.1	1.01	.315	2.67	55	48	6.52	63.9