2021 season · rankings

2021 MLB Pitching Leaders

39 players qualified at 161.9 innings pitched, ranked by dbWAR. Every column sorts across the full qualified set — not just the rows shown — and the whole table downloads as Parquet. Filter by position, cohort, league or country of birth, several countries at a time.

TableBatting Pitching

RoleLeaguePool

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39 of 39 qualifiedDownload Parquet

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1	Corbin Burnes	United States	27	28	28	167.0	11	5	234	2.43	1.63	0.94	12.6	37.3%	18.4%	5.2%	30.4%	38	7.2
2	Zack Wheeler	United States	31	32	32	213.1	14	10	247	2.78	2.59	1.01	10.4	26.8%	13.9%	5.4%	23.7%	61	6.7
3	Nathan Eovaldi	United States	31	32	32	182.1	11	9	195	3.75	2.79	1.19	9.6	25.9%	13.4%	4.6%	20.9%	65	5.7
4	Walker Buehler	United States	27	33	33	207.2	16	4	212	2.47	3.16	0.97	9.2	26.4%	13.0%	6.4%	19.6%	74	5.2
5	Kevin Gausman	United States	30	33	33	192.0	14	6	227	2.81	3.00	1.04	10.6	31.4%	16.4%	6.5%	22.8%	70	5.1
6	Gerrit Cole	United States	31	30	30	181.1	16	8	243	3.23	2.92	1.06	12.1	31.9%	15.6%	5.6%	27.8%	68	5.0
7	Brandon Woodruff	United States	28	30	30	179.1	9	10	211	2.56	2.96	0.96	10.6	28.2%	14.4%	6.1%	23.7%	69	5.0
8	Max Scherzer	United States	37	30	30	179.1	15	4	236	2.46	2.97	0.86	11.8	34.3%	17.4%	5.2%	28.9%	70	4.8
9	Charlie Morton	United States	38	33	33	185.2	14	6	216	3.34	3.18	1.04	10.5	29.1%	13.4%	7.7%	20.9%	74	4.8
10	Julio Urías	Mexico	25	32	32	185.2	20	3	195	2.96	3.13	1.02	9.5	24.3%	12.5%	5.1%	21.1%	73	4.7
11	Sandy Alcantara	Dominican Republic	26	33	33	205.2	9	15	201	3.19	3.42	1.07	8.8	27.5%	14.6%	6.0%	18.0%	80	4.5
12	José Berríos	Puerto Rico	27	32	32	192.0	12	9	204	3.52	3.47	1.06	9.6	23.7%	11.1%	5.8%	20.4%	81	4.1
13	Frankie Montas	Dominican Republic	28	32	32	187.0	13	9	207	3.37	3.37	1.18	10.0	29.6%	14.9%	7.3%	19.3%	79	4.1
14	Aaron Nola	United States	28	32	32	180.2	9	9	223	4.63	3.37	1.13	11.1	27.9%	13.7%	5.2%	24.6%	79	4.1
15	Max Fried	United States	27	28	28	165.2	14	7	158	3.04	3.31	1.09	8.6	24.8%	12.2%	6.1%	17.5%	78	4.0
16	Robbie Ray	United States	30	32	32	193.1	13	7	248	2.84	3.69	1.04	11.5	32.3%	16.8%	6.7%	25.4%	87	3.9
17	Luis Castillo	Dominican Republic	29	33	33	187.2	8	16	192	3.98	3.75	1.36	9.2	28.9%	14.2%	9.3%	14.6%	88	3.8
18	Adam Wainwright	United States	40	32	32	206.1	17	7	174	3.05	3.66	1.06	7.6	20.2%	8.8%	6.0%	15.0%	86	3.7
19	Dylan Cease	United States	26	32	32	165.2	13	7	226	3.91	3.41	1.25	12.3	34.6%	16.2%	9.6%	22.3%	80	3.7
20	Marcus Stroman	United States	30	33	33	179.0	10	13	158	3.02	3.49	1.15	7.9	26.8%	13.0%	6.0%	15.6%	82	3.6
21	Tyler Mahle	United States	27	33	33	180.0	13	6	210	3.75	3.80	1.23	10.5	28.4%	12.9%	8.4%	19.2%	89	3.5
22	Germán Márquez	Venezuela	26	32	32	180.0	12	11	176	4.40	3.86	1.27	8.8	27.1%	12.9%	8.5%	14.8%	91	3.4
23	Lance McCullers Jr.	United States	28	28	28	162.1	13	5	185	3.16	3.52	1.22	10.3	30.2%	12.6%	11.1%	15.9%	83	3.4
24	Sean Manaea	United States	29	32	32	179.1	11	10	194	3.91	3.66	1.23	9.7	27.1%	14.0%	5.4%	20.3%	86	3.3
25	Anthony DeSclafani	United States	31	31	31	167.2	13	7	152	3.17	3.62	1.09	8.2	24.2%	11.8%	6.2%	16.3%	85	3.3
26	Joe Musgrove	United States	29	32	31	181.1	11	9	203	3.18	3.70	1.08	10.1	30.0%	14.1%	7.2%	19.9%	87	3.3
27	Lucas Giolito	United States	27	31	31	178.2	11	9	201	3.53	3.79	1.10	10.1	32.2%	16.3%	7.2%	20.7%	89	3.2
28	Kyle Gibson	United States	34	31	30	182.0	10	9	155	3.71	3.87	1.22	7.7	25.2%	11.3%	8.5%	12.1%	91	3.0
29	Wade Miley	United States	35	28	28	163.0	12	7	125	3.37	3.97	1.33	6.9	23.9%	11.3%	7.2%	10.9%	93	2.9
30	Chris Flexen	United States	27	31	31	179.2	14	6	125	3.61	3.89	1.25	6.3	19.3%	9.6%	5.4%	11.5%	91	2.8
31	Hyun Jin Ryu	South Korea	34	31	31	169.0	14	10	143	4.37	4.02	1.22	7.6	22.6%	10.7%	5.3%	15.1%	94	2.7
32	Yu Darvish	Japan	35	30	30	166.1	8	11	199	4.22	3.90	1.09	10.8	27.3%	13.0%	6.5%	22.8%	92	2.7
33	Cole Irvin	United States	27	32	32	178.1	10	15	125	4.24	4.30	1.33	6.3	19.5%	10.1%	5.5%	10.8%	101	2.0
34	Tyler Anderson	United States	32	31	31	167.0	7	11	134	4.53	4.37	1.25	7.2	23.1%	12.5%	5.4%	13.7%	102	1.9
35	Zack Greinke	United States	38	30	29	171.0	11	6	120	4.16	4.71	1.17	6.3	21.8%	10.0%	5.2%	12.1%	111	1.2
36	Kyle Hendricks	United States	32	32	32	181.0	14	7	131	4.77	4.89	1.35	6.5	20.1%	9.8%	5.6%	11.1%	115	1.0
37	Dallas Keuchel	United States	33	32	30	162.0	9	9	95	5.28	5.23	1.53	5.3	21.0%	9.3%	8.2%	5.0%	122	0.2
38	Jordan Lyles	United States	31	32	30	180.0	10	13	146	5.15	5.34	1.39	7.3	23.5%	11.3%	7.3%	11.7%	125	-0.1
39	Patrick Corbin	United States	32	31	31	171.2	9	16	143	5.82	5.41	1.47	7.5	24.9%	11.9%	8.0%	11.1%	127	-0.2

Reading this table

FIP estimates what a pitcher's ERA would be given only the outcomes they control directly — strikeouts, walks, hit batters and home runs. FIP− indexes that against the league, so 100 is average and lower is better. dbWAR is our own open implementation, not fWAR or bWAR. See the full derivation →