National League Pitching Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all

<strong>Wins Above Replacement</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add.<br>Scale for a single-season: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br>Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Walker • COL 9.8
2. Biggio • HOU 9.3
3. Martínez • MON 8.8
4. Piazza • LAD 8.7
5. Bonds • SFG 8.1
6. Maddux • ATL 7.7
7. Bagwell • HOU 7.7
8. Brown • FLA 6.8
9. Glavine • ATL 6.5
10. Schilling • PHI 6.3

WAR for Pitchers

<strong>Wins Above Replacement for Pitchers</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. This value includes defensive support and includes additional value for high leverage situations.<br>Scale: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br> Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Martínez • MON 9.0
2. Maddux • ATL 7.8
3. Brown • FLA 7.0
4. Schilling • PHI 6.3
5. Glavine • ATL 5.5
6. Kile • HOU 5.4
7. Valdez • LAD 5.3
8. Smoltz • ATL 4.8
9. Neagle • ATL 4.5
10. Córdova • PIT 4.4

Earned Run Average

<strong>9 * ER / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played.<br>Bold indicates lowest ERA using current stats<br><span class=glimmer>Gold</span> means awarded ERA title at end of year.

1. Martínez • MON 1.90
2. Maddux • ATL 2.20
3. Kile • HOU 2.57
4. Valdez • LAD 2.65
5. Brown • FLA 2.69
6. Reed • NYM 2.89
7. Glavine • ATL 2.96
8. Neagle • ATL 2.97
9. Schilling • PHI 2.97
10. Smoltz • ATL 3.02

Wins

Wins

1. Neagle • ATL 20
2. Estes • SFG 19
Kile • HOU 19
Maddux • ATL 19
5. Fernandez • FLA 17
Martínez • MON 17
Schilling • PHI 17
8. Brown • FLA 16
9. Hampton • HOU 15
Jones • NYM 15
Smoltz • ATL 15

Win-Loss %

<strong>Win-Loss Percentage</strong><br>W / (W + L)<br>For players, leaders need one decision for every ten team games.<br>For managers, minimum to qualify for leading is 320 games.

1. Maddux • ATL .826
2. Neagle • ATL .800
3. Estes • SFG .792
4. Kile • HOU .731
5. Juden • MON .688
6. Rueter • SFG .684
7. Martínez • MON .680
8. Brown • FLA .667
Glavine • ATL .667
10. Clark • 2TM .636
Park • LAD .636

Walks & Hits per IP

<strong>(BB + H)/IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Martínez • MON 0.932
2. Maddux • ATL 0.946
3. Reed • NYM 1.042
4. Schilling • PHI 1.046
5. Neagle • ATL 1.084
6. Valdez • LAD 1.108
7. Park • LAD 1.141
8. Glavine • ATL 1.150
9. Smoltz • ATL 1.160
10. Brown • FLA 1.180

Hits per 9 IP

<strong>9 x H / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Martínez • MON 5.892
2. Park • LAD 6.984
3. Estes • SFG 7.254
4. Kile • HOU 7.322
5. Schilling • PHI 7.360
6. Glavine • ATL 7.388
7. Benes • STL 7.576
8. Stottlemyre • STL 7.707
9. Maddux • ATL 7.736
10. Valdez • LAD 7.825

Bases On Balls per 9 IP

<strong>9 x BB / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Maddux • ATL 0.774
2. Reed • NYM 1.339
3. Neagle • ATL 1.890
4. Schilling • PHI 2.052
5. Pérez • MON 2.090
6. Valdez • LAD 2.151
7. Ashby • SDP 2.198
8. Smoltz • ATL 2.215
9. Reynolds • HOU 2.337
10. Rueter • SFG 2.407

Strikeouts per 9 IP

<strong>9 x SO / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Martínez • MON 11.374
2. Schilling • PHI 11.288
3. Nomo • LAD 10.114
4. Benes • STL 8.898
5. Smoltz • ATL 8.473
6. Estes • SFG 8.104
7. Stottlemyre • STL 7.956
8. Park • LAD 7.781
9. Brown • FLA 7.774
10. Lieber • PIT 7.646

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Tavárez • SFG 89
2. Belinda • CIN 84
3. Shaw • CIN 78
4. Rojas • 2TM 77
5. Patterson • CHC 76
Spradlin • PHI 76
7. Henry • SFG 75
Radinsky • LAD 75
9. Adams • CHC 74
Dipoto • COL 74
Powell • FLA 74

Saves

Saves

1. Shaw • CIN 42
2. Hoffman • SDP 37
Beck • SFG 37
4. Eckersley • STL 36
Franco • NYM 36
6. Worrell • LAD 35
Nen • FLA 35
8. Bottalico • PHI 34
9. Wohlers • ATL 33
10. Loiselle • PIT 29

Innings Pitched

Innings Pitched

1. Smoltz • ATL 256.0
2. Kile • HOU 255.2
3. Schilling • PHI 254.1
4. Martínez • MON 241.1
5. Glavine • ATL 240.0
6. Brown • FLA 237.1
7. Neagle • ATL 233.1
8. Maddux • ATL 232.2
9. Hampton • HOU 223.0
10. Fernandez • FLA 220.2

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Schilling • PHI 319
2. Martínez • MON 305
3. Smoltz • ATL 241
4. Nomo • LAD 233
5. Brown • FLA 205
Kile • HOU 205
7. Fernandez • FLA 183
8. Estes • SFG 181
9. Maddux • ATL 177
10. Benes • STL 175

Games Started

Games Started

1. Schilling • PHI 35
Smoltz • ATL 35
3. Hampton • HOU 34
Kile • HOU 34
Neagle • ATL 34
Trachsel • CHC 34
7. Brown • FLA 33
Glavine • ATL 33
Maddux • ATL 33
Morris • STL 33
Nomo • LAD 33
Castillo • 2TM 33

Complete Games

Complete Game

1. Martínez • MON 13
2. Pérez • MON 8
3. Smoltz • ATL 7
Schilling • PHI 7
Hampton • HOU 7
6. Brown • FLA 6
Kile • HOU 6
8. Bailey • COL 5
Maddux • ATL 5
Glavine • ATL 5
Fernandez • FLA 5

Shutouts

Shutouts<br>No runs allowed and a complete game.

1. Pérez • MON 5
2. Neagle • ATL 4
Martínez • MON 4
Kile • HOU 4
5. Brown • FLA 2
Maddux • ATL 2
Schilling • PHI 2
Hampton • HOU 2
Smoltz • ATL 2
Glavine • ATL 2
Bailey • COL 2
Estes • SFG 2
Córdova • PIT 2
Bullinger • MON 2

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Trachsel • CHC 32
2. Gardner • SFG 28
3. Bailey • COL 27
Foster • CHC 27
5. Beech • PHI 25
Fernandez • FLA 25
Leiter • PHI 25
Schilling • PHI 25
Castillo • 2TM 25
10. Hitchcock • SDP 24
Jones • NYM 24
Park • LAD 24
Astacio • 2TM 24
Clark • 2TM 24
Mulholland • 2TM 24

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Estes • SFG 100
2. Kile • HOU 94
3. Nomo • LAD 92
4. Leiter • FLA 91
5. Glavine • ATL 79
6. Cooke • PIT 77
Hampton • HOU 77
8. Mlicki • NYM 76
Schmidt • PIT 76
10. Bullinger • MON 74

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Smoltz • ATL 234
2. Trachsel • CHC 225
3. Castillo • 2TM 220
4. Hampton • HOU 217
5. Leiter • PHI 216
6. Brown • FLA 214
Loaiza • PIT 214
8. Clark • 2TM 213
9. Holt • HOU 211
10. Bailey • COL 210

Strikeouts / Base On Balls

<strong>SO/W or SO/BB</strong><br>For recent years, pitching leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played.<br>No batting leaders computed.

1. Maddux • ATL 8.850
2. Schilling • PHI 5.500
3. Martínez • MON 4.552
4. Smoltz • ATL 3.825
5. Reed • NYM 3.645
6. Neagle • ATL 3.510
7. Reynolds • HOU 3.234
8. Lieber • PIT 3.137
9. Brown • FLA 3.106
10. Valdez • LAD 2.979

Home Runs per 9 IP

<strong>9 x HR / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Maddux • ATL 0.348
2. Brown • FLA 0.379
3. Benes • STL 0.458
4. Morris • STL 0.498
5. Estes • SFG 0.537
6. Martínez • MON 0.597
7. Hampton • HOU 0.646
8. Kile • HOU 0.669
9. Neagle • ATL 0.694
10. Córdova • PIT 0.705

Losses

Losses

1. Leiter • PHI 17
2. Cooke • PIT 15
3. Lieber • PIT 14
4. Pérez • MON 13
Mulholland • 2TM 13
6. Bullinger • MON 12
Fernandez • FLA 12
Holt • HOU 12
Mlicki • NYM 12
Morgan • CIN 12
Nomo • LAD 12
Smoltz • ATL 12
Trachsel • CHC 12
Wright • COL 12
Castillo • 2TM 12
Valenzuela • 2TM 12

Earned Runs

Earned Runs Allowed

1. Leiter • PHI 115
2. Castillo • 2TM 111
3. Wright • COL 104
4. Trachsel • CHC 101
5. Nomo • LAD 98
6. Bullinger • MON 96
Schmidt • PIT 96
8. Hampton • HOU 95
9. Lieber • PIT 94
10. Hitchcock • SDP 93
Astacio • 2TM 93

Wild Pitches

Wild Pitches

1. Remlinger • CIN 12
2. Leiter • PHI 11
3. Estes • SFG 10
Nomo • LAD 10
Smoltz • ATL 10
6. Benes • STL 9
Fernandez • FLA 9
VanLandingham • SFG 9
9. Cooke • PIT 8
Schmidt • PIT 8
Rapp • 2TM 8

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Brown • FLA 14
2. Bailey • COL 13
3. Bullinger • MON 12
Hamilton • SDP 12
Leiter • FLA 12
Loaiza • PIT 12
Stottlemyre • STL 12
8. Candiotti • LAD 11
Wright • COL 11
Mulholland • 2TM 11

Batters Faced

Batters Faced

1. Kile • HOU 1,056
2. Smoltz • ATL 1,043
3. Schilling • PHI 1,009
4. Brown • FLA 976
5. Glavine • ATL 970
6. Martínez • MON 947
Neagle • ATL 947
8. Hampton • HOU 941
9. Fernandez • FLA 904
Nomo • LAD 904

Games Finished

Games Finished<br>Credited to the last pitcher to appear for a team in a game.<br>Complete Games are not counted as Games Finished.

1. Beck • SFG 66
2. Nen • FLA 65
3. Shaw • CIN 62
4. Bottalico • PHI 61
5. Hoffman • SDP 59
6. Loiselle • PIT 58
7. Wohlers • ATL 55
Worrell • LAD 55
9. Franco • NYM 53
10. Urbina • MON 50
Rojas • 2TM 50

Adjusted ERA+

<strong>ERA+</strong><br>100*[lgERA/ERA]<br>Adjusted to the player&#x2019;s ballpark(s).

1. Martínez • MON 219
2. Maddux • ATL 189
3. Kile • HOU 156
4. Brown • FLA 150
5. Valdez • LAD 146
6. Schilling • PHI 143
7. Reed • NYM 141
8. Glavine • ATL 141
9. Neagle • ATL 140
10. Smoltz • ATL 138

Fielding Independent Pitching

<strong>Fielding Independent Pitching</strong><br>this stat measures a pitcher's effectiveness at preventing HR, BB, HBP and causing SO<br><tt>(13*HR + 3*(BB+HBP) - 2*SO)/IP + Constant<sub>lg</sub></tt><br>The constant is set so that each season major-league average FIP is the same as the major-league avg ERA

1. Martínez • MON 2.39
2. Maddux • ATL 2.43
3. Schilling • PHI 2.62
4. Benes • STL 2.91
5. Brown • FLA 2.94
6. Smoltz • ATL 3.04
7. Neagle • ATL 3.34
8. Morris • STL 3.51
9. Valdez • LAD 3.51
10. Ashby • SDP 3.58

Adj. Pitching Runs

<strong>Adjusted Pitching Runs</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a pitcher&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s runs total via linear weights.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Martínez • MON 57
2. Maddux • ATL 54
3. Kile • HOU 40
4. Brown • FLA 38
5. Schilling • PHI 34
6. Glavine • ATL 33
7. Smoltz • ATL 32
8. Neagle • ATL 30
9. Reed • NYM 27
10. Valdez • LAD 27

Adj. Pitching Wins

<strong>Adjusted Pitching Wins</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a pitcher&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s wins with his arm.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Martínez • MON 6.3
2. Maddux • ATL 5.8
3. Kile • HOU 4.2
4. Brown • FLA 4.0
5. Schilling • PHI 3.6
6. Glavine • ATL 3.4
7. Smoltz • ATL 3.3
8. Neagle • ATL 3.2
9. Reed • NYM 2.8
10. Valdez • LAD 2.8

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)

<strong>Base-Out Runs Saved</strong><br>Given the bases occupied/out situation, how many runs did the pitcher<br>save in the resulting play. Compared to average, so 0 is average, and<br>above 0 is better than average

1. Maddux • ATL 63.39
2. Martínez • MON 57.70
3. Glavine • ATL 44.75
4. Kile • HOU 43.04
5. Brown • FLA 41.41
6. Schilling • PHI 35.91
7. Smoltz • ATL 35.76
8. Neagle • ATL 33.48
9. Reed • NYM 31.87
10. Valdez • LAD 27.28

Win Probability Added (WPA)

<strong>Win Probability Added by Pitcher</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability.<br>See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Martínez • MON 6.4
2. Maddux • ATL 6.2
3. Schilling • PHI 5.0
4. Shaw • CIN 4.5
5. Kile • HOU 4.1
6. Reed • NYM 3.9
7. Brown • FLA 3.8
8. Glavine • ATL 3.7
9. Smoltz • ATL 3.6
10. Valdez • LAD 3.2

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)

<strong>Situational Wins (WPA/LI)</strong><br>It is the sum of WPA divided by the leverage index for each play.<br>WPA depends greatly on the context of the at bats.<br>This stat does not.

1. Martínez • MON 6.3
2. Maddux • ATL 6.2
3. Brown • FLA 4.5
4. Smoltz • ATL 4.3
5. Schilling • PHI 4.2
6. Glavine • ATL 4.0
7. Neagle • ATL 3.9
8. Reed • NYM 3.2
9. Kile • HOU 3.1
10. Valdez • LAD 2.9

Championship WPA (cWPA)

<strong>Championship Win Probability Added by Pitcher</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability of winning the World Series, displayed in percentage points.<br>See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Radinsky • LAD 3.4
2. Valdez • LAD 3.4
3. Kile • HOU 3.3
4. Rueter • SFG 3.2
5. Martínez • MON 3.0
6. Brown • FLA 2.9
7. Maddux • ATL 2.8
8. Estes • SFG 2.0
9. Reed • NYM 1.9
10. Neagle • ATL 1.7

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)

<strong>Base-Out Wins Saved</strong><br>This is the number of wins above average the player was worth by their performance<br>measured by the 24 base-out situations.

1. Maddux • ATL 7.1
2. Martínez • MON 6.4
3. Glavine • ATL 4.8
4. Kile • HOU 4.7
5. Brown • FLA 4.5
6. Smoltz • ATL 3.8
7. Schilling • PHI 3.7
8. Neagle • ATL 3.5
9. Reed • NYM 3.4
10. Valdez • LAD 3.0

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/Team Game (batting), 1.0 IP/Team Game (pitching), 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/Team Game (W-L%) is needed for single-season leaderboards. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1898, so all leaders are since 1898. Explanation of min. requirements