mlb pitcher with the most strikeouts 1981

Fernando Valenzuela struck out the most batters in 1981, with 180 strikeouts in his rookie season.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Fernando Valenzuela F. Valenzuela	180	1981	LAD	25	13	7	.650	25	2.48	11	8	0	192.1	140	53	55	11	61	1	0	4	758	4	8.42	2.85	2.95	0.51	23.7	8.0	1.05	.255	2.57	73	2.44	72	6.55	20.4
2	Steve Carlton S. Carlton	179	1981	PHI	24	13	4	.765	24	2.42	10	1	0	190.0	152	51	59	9	62	1	0	3	763	9	8.48	2.94	2.89	0.43	23.5	8.1	1.13	.279	2.79	69	2.32	67	7.20	23.7
3	Mario Soto M. Soto	151	1981	CIN	25	12	9	.571	25	3.29	10	3	0	175.0	142	64	69	13	61	3	0	3	717	4	7.77	3.14	2.48	0.67	21.1	8.5	1.16	.264	3.55	93	2.93	85	7.30	10.1
4	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	140	1981	HOU	21	11	5	.688	21	1.69	5	3	0	149.0	99	28	34	2	68	1	0	1	605	16	8.46	4.11	2.06	0.12	23.1	11.2	1.12	.246	2.05	52	2.28	70	5.98	16.5
5	Len Barker L. Barker	127	1981	CLE	22	8	7	.533	22	3.91	9	3	0	154.1	150	67	72	7	46	1	0	0	660	5	7.41	2.68	2.76	0.41	19.2	7.0	1.27	.299	4.20	105	2.45	65	8.75	22.7
6	Bill Gullickson B. Gullickson	115	1981	MON	22	7	9	.438	22	2.80	3	2	0	157.1	142	49	54	3	34	4	0	4	640	4	6.58	1.94	3.38	0.17	18.0	5.3	1.12	.287	3.09	80	2.11	62	8.12	22.5
7	Britt Burns B. Burns	108	1981	CWS	24	10	6	.625	23	2.64	5	1	0	156.2	139	46	52	14	49	6	0	1	651	1	6.20	2.81	2.20	0.80	16.6	7.5	1.20	.264	2.99	72	3.43	93	7.99	4.3
8	Bert Blyleven B. Blyleven	107	1981	CLE	20	11	7	.611	20	2.88	9	1	0	159.1	145	51	52	9	40	5	0	1	644	3	6.04	2.26	2.68	0.51	16.6	6.2	1.16	.282	2.94	77	2.84	75	8.19	16.8
9	Dennis Leonard D. Leonard	107	1981	KCR	26	13	11	.542	26	2.99	9	2	0	201.2	202	67	79	15	41	3	0	5	837	5	4.78	1.83	2.61	0.67	12.8	4.9	1.20	.279	3.53	81	3.16	87	9.01	11
10	Bruce Berenyi B. Berenyi	106	1981	CIN	21	9	6	.600	20	3.50	5	3	0	126.0	97	49	55	3	77	0	0	0	544	7	7.57	5.50	1.38	0.21	19.5	14.2	1.38	.263	3.93	99	3.06	89	6.93	5.5
11	Ron Guidry R. Guidry	104	1981	NYY	23	11	5	.688	21	2.76	0	0	0	127.0	100	39	41	12	26	1	1	0	497	6	7.37	1.84	4.00	0.85	20.9	5.2	0.99	.249	2.91	78	2.82	77	7.09	11.7
12	Don Sutton D. Sutton	104	1981	HOU	23	11	9	.550	23	2.61	6	3	0	158.2	132	46	51	6	29	1	0	3	624	0	5.90	1.64	3.59	0.34	16.7	4.6	1.01	.260	2.89	80	2.34	72	7.49	16.4
13	Mike Krukow M. Krukow	101	1981	CHC	25	9	9	.500	25	3.68	2	1	0	144.1	146	59	68	11	55	2	0	6	622	8	6.30	3.43	1.84	0.69	16.2	8.8	1.39	.298	4.24	99	3.37	96	9.10	2.5
14	Danny Darwin D. Darwin	98	1981	TEX	22	9	9	.500	22	3.64	6	2	0	146.0	115	59	67	12	57	6	0	5	601	1	6.04	3.51	1.72	0.74	16.3	9.5	1.18	.241	4.13	103	3.62	100	7.09	-0.4
15	Jack Morris J. Morris	97	1981	DET	25	14	7	.667	25	3.05	15	1	0	198.0	153	67	69	14	78	2	0	11	798	2	4.41	3.55	1.24	0.64	12.2	9.8	1.17	.229	3.14	83	3.75	98	6.95	2
16	John Denny J. Denny	94	1981	CLE	19	10	6	.625	19	3.15	6	3	0	145.2	139	51	62	9	66	3	0	3	623	10	5.81	4.08	1.42	0.56	15.1	10.6	1.41	.288	3.83	84	3.53	93	8.59	4.3
17	Steve McCatty S. McCatty	91	1981	OAK	22	14	7	.667	22	2.33	16	4	0	185.2	140	48	50	12	61	2	0	1	741	0	4.41	2.96	1.49	0.58	12.3	8.2	1.08	.223	2.42	67	3.47	95	6.79	3.4
18	Dave Righetti D. Righetti	89	1981	NYY	15	8	4	.667	15	2.05	2	0	0	105.1	75	24	25	1	38	0	0	0	422	1	7.60	3.25	2.34	0.09	21.1	9.0	1.07	.252	2.14	58	2.11	58	6.41	18.2
19	Dave Stieb D. Stieb	89	1981	TOR	25	11	10	.524	25	3.19	11	2	0	183.2	148	65	70	10	61	11	0	2	748	1	4.36	2.99	1.46	0.49	11.9	8.2	1.14	.239	3.43	82	3.51	92	7.25	6.6
20	Dennis Martinez D. Martinez	88	1981	BAL	25	14	5	.737	24	3.32	9	2	0	179.0	173	66	84	10	62	2	0	1	753	6	4.42	3.12	1.42	0.50	11.7	8.2	1.31	.276	4.22	93	3.41	93	8.70	5.3
21	Bob Welch B. Welch	88	1981	LAD	23	9	5	.643	23	3.44	2	1	0	141.1	141	54	56	11	41	3	0	0	601	2	5.60	2.61	2.15	0.70	14.6	6.8	1.29	.284	3.57	102	3.30	97	8.98	1.3
22	Steve Rogers S. Rogers	87	1981	MON	22	12	8	.600	22	3.42	7	3	0	160.2	149	61	64	7	41	2	0	4	652	1	4.87	2.30	2.12	0.39	13.3	6.3	1.18	.276	3.59	97	2.88	85	8.35	9
23	Tom Seaver T. Seaver	87	1981	CIN	23	14	2	.875	23	2.54	6	1	0	166.1	120	47	51	10	66	3	0	8	671	5	4.71	3.57	1.32	0.54	13.0	9.8	1.12	.218	2.76	72	3.58	104	6.49	-2.2
24	Floyd Bannister F. Bannister	85	1981	SEA	21	9	9	.500	20	4.45	5	2	0	121.1	128	60	62	14	39	3	0	0	522	7	6.30	2.89	2.18	1.04	16.3	7.5	1.38	.299	4.60	118	3.73	94	9.49	3.5
25	Rick Langford R. Langford	84	1981	OAK	24	12	10	.545	24	2.99	18	2	0	195.1	190	65	81	14	58	3	0	2	823	1	3.87	2.67	1.45	0.65	10.2	7.0	1.27	.265	3.73	86	3.61	99	8.75	0.7

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