WHIP – walks plus hits per inning pitched – is one of the most widely-used pitching stats in baseball.. The number measures how many baserunners a pitcher allows on average and is a good ...

I tend to view WHIP, or walks plus hits per innings pitched, as my preferred method for gauging pitching quality. Baseball can be both easy and difficult to quantify as some statistics carry a lot ...

That’s walks-plus-hits per inning pitched, and 0.24 is the lowest in baseball’s modern era (since 1900) by any pitcher in any 22-appearance span covering at least 25 innings, according to ...