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whiff rate: a term, usually used in reference to pitchers, that divides the number of pitches swung at and missed by the total number of swings in a given sample. If a pitcher throws 100 pitches at which batters swing, and the batters fail to make contact on 26 of them, the pitcher's whiff rate is 26%.
Below is the list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers in Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) with at least 1,000 innings pitched. Addie Joss [1] [2] [3] is the all-time leader with a career WHIP of 0.9678. Jacob deGrom [4] (0.9947) and Ed Walsh [5] (0.9996) are the only other players with a career WHIP under 1.0000.
WHIP near 1.000 or lower over the course of a season will often rank among the league leaders in Major League Baseball (MLB).. The lowest single-season WHIP in MLB history through 2024 is held by George Walker of the 1940 Kansas City Monarchs, with a WHIP of 0.7347 which broke the previous record of 0.7692 of Guy Hecker of the 1882 Louisville Eclipse. [3]
From 2020 to 2022, Smith did much of his damage against four-seam fastballs, batting .292 against the pitch with a .588 slugging percentage, 21 home runs and only an 18.6% whiff rate.
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He was receptive to the demotion. The issue was Walker's inability to lift balls for homers and his rising whiff rate. In 2023, his ground-ball rate was 46.9%, now 50% in 2024. His line-drive rate decreased from 25.2% to 16.7%. INF Jose Fermin hitting .350 at AAA-Memphis, was recalled.
[26] [9] [27] [28] His 186 aggregate strikeouts in 2022 were the second-most of any pitcher in the minor leagues, and he led the minor leagues in both strikeouts per 9 innings (14.8; the highest rate for a pitcher in the minors–minimum 100 innings–in a season dating back to 1960) and whiff percentage (39.8%).
Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...