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(Not necessarily in the same season)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Vida Blue<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Spud Chandler<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Roger Clemens<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Ty Cobb<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Mort Cooper<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Dizzy Dean<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Josh Donaldson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Dennis Eckersley<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Rollie Fingers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Lew Fonseca<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Jimmie Foxx<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Bob Gibson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Lefty Grove<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Willie Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Carl Hubbell<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Walter Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Clayton Kershaw<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Jim Konstanty<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Sandy Koufax<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Denny McLain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Don Newcombe<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Hal Newhouser<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Babe Ruth<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Bobby Shantz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. George Sisler<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Dazzy Vance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Justin Verlander<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Bucky Walters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immaculate-grid"],"yoast_head":"\nPlayers who won an MVP and had a 3.00 ERA Season (or better) - Baseball Reference Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/br-blog\/2025\/12\/players-who-won-an-mvp-and-had-a-3-00-era-season-or-better\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Players who won an MVP and had a 3.00 ERA Season (or better) - Baseball Reference Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/br-blog\/2025\/12\/players-who-won-an-mvp-and-had-a-3-00-era-season-or-better\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Baseball Reference Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-07T10:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adam Darowski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adam Darowski\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Players who won an MVP and had a 3.00 ERA Season (or better) - 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