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The following list is of the top 100 pitchers in career strikeouts in Major League Baseball. In baseball, a strikeout occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. Strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher and failure on the part of the batter. Nolan Ryan [1] [2] [3] has the most career ...
His 11 seasons as a strikeout leader – second only to the 12 of Walter Johnson – includes nine seasons, between 1972 and 1990, as the American League strikeout leader. [180] Three-time strikeout champion Johan Santana won the American League's last pitching triple crown in 2006. [181] Scott Kazmir's 239 strikeouts led the American League in ...
Nolan Ryan is Major League Baseball's all-time strikeout leader at 5,714. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 3,000 strikeout club is the group of 19 pitchers who have struck out 3,000 or more batters in their careers. Walter Johnson became the first member in 1923, and was the only one until Bob Gibson joined in 1974.
Indeed, 2,000 strikeouts could also be a stretch. The active under-30 leader there is Giolito with 1,077, the only pitcher over 1,000. ... the only pitcher over 1,000. Gallen's old enough to ...
He has 40 strikeouts against 14 walks in 43 innings, averaging better than six innings over seven starts. The only other active pitchers to reach 2,000 career innings are Clayton Kershaw, Max ...
The next pitchers who are currently on a 40-man roster: Chris Sale, who ranks 60th with 2,259, and Gerrit Cole, 72nd with 2,152. The next-highest pitcher under Cole's 33 years of age: 31-year-old ...
He was the fifth-youngest player in major league history to reach that mark, as well as the second-fastest pitcher to 2,000 strikeouts, accomplishing the feat in 277 games (behind Randy Johnson's 262 games). [133] [134] He was named to his seventh straight All-Star Game. [135] On July 23, Kershaw left the game due to back tightness.
His Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) (a defense independent pitching statistic measuring a pitcher's effectiveness at limiting walks, home runs, and hits while accumulating strikeouts) of 1.39 was the lowest single-season total in the major leagues since 1910 among pitchers who threw more than 35 innings. The second best FIP in baseball in ...