most strikeouts as a cubs relief pitcher 2024

Drew Smyly struck out the most batters by a Cubs relief pitcher in 2024, with 56 strikeouts.

	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	H/9
1	Drew Smyly D. Smyly	56	2024	CHC	50	4	8	.333	0	3.84	0	0	0	58.2	57	25	29	10	25	3	8	3	257	5	8.59	3.84	2.24	1.53	21.8	9.7	1.40	.288	4.45	8.74
2	Mark Leiter Jr. M. Leiter Jr.	53	2024	CHC	39	2	4	.333	0	4.21	0	0	0	36.1	27	17	20	2	13	1	3	0	152	2	13.13	3.22	4.08	0.50	34.9	8.6	1.10	.301	4.95	6.69
3	Porter Hodge P. Hodge	52	2024	CHC	39	3	1	.750	0	1.88	0	0	9	43.0	19	9	10	2	19	1	17	0	164	1	10.88	3.98	2.74	0.42	31.7	11.6	0.88	.189	2.09	3.98
4	Héctor Neris H. Neris	46	2024	CHC	46	8	4	.667	0	3.89	0	0	17	44.0	41	19	20	4	26	1	33	2	196	1	9.41	5.32	1.77	0.82	23.5	13.3	1.52	.311	4.09	8.39
5	Tyson Miller T. Miller	42	2024	CHC	49	5	1	.833	0	2.15	0	0	1	50.1	31	12	13	5	10	4	9	0	190	0	7.51	1.79	4.20	0.89	22.1	5.3	0.81	.202	2.32	5.54
6	Keegan Thompson K. Thompson	36	2024	CHC	24	2	1	.667	0	2.67	0	0	2	30.1	19	9	12	3	18	0	9	0	127	0	10.68	5.34	2.00	0.89	28.3	14.2	1.22	.229	3.56	5.64
7	Hayden Wesneski H. Wesneski	33	2024	CHC	21	2	3	.400	0	3.66	0	0	0	32.0	23	13	13	7	11	0	2	0	127	1	9.28	3.09	3.00	1.97	26.0	8.7	1.06	.211	3.66	6.47
8	Jorge López J. López	31	2024	CHC	24	1	1	.500	0	2.03	0	0	2	26.2	21	6	6	3	8	0	8	0	106	0	10.46	2.70	3.88	1.01	29.2	7.5	1.09	.281	2.03	7.09
9	Luke Little L. Little	27	2024	CHC	29	3	1	.750	0	3.60	0	0	0	25.0	15	10	11	1	18	4	7	1	106	3	9.72	6.48	1.50	0.36	25.5	17.0	1.32	.250	3.96	5.40
10	Ethan Roberts E. Roberts	26	2024	CHC	21	1	1	.500	0	3.71	0	0	0	26.2	31	11	11	3	10	1	6	0	118	1	8.78	3.38	2.60	1.01	22.0	8.5	1.54	.359	3.71	10.46
11	Nate Pearson N. Pearson	23	2024	CHC	18	2	1	.667	0	2.84	0	0	0	25.1	21	8	8	4	3	1	5	0	99	0	8.17	1.07	7.67	1.42	23.2	3.0	0.95	.250	2.84	7.46
12	Colten Brewer C. Brewer	22	2024	CHC	16	0	0		0	5.66	0	0	1	20.2	24	13	16	1	9	1	8	0	95	1	9.58	3.92	2.44	0.44	23.2	9.5	1.60	.371	6.97	10.45
13	Ben Brown B. Brown	21	2024	CHC	7	1	0	1.000	0	4.41	0	0	0	16.1	17	8	8	1	5	0	0	0	70	1	11.57	2.76	4.20	0.55	30.0	7.1	1.35	.372	4.41	9.37
14	Yency Almonte Y. Almonte	20	2024	CHC	17	1	0	1.000	0	3.45	0	0	1	15.2	9	6	7	1	8	2	2	1	67	1	11.49	4.60	2.50	0.57	29.9	11.9	1.09	.222	4.02	5.17
15	Daniel Palencia D. Palencia	16	2024	CHC	10	0	1	.000	0	6.14	0	0	1	14.2	14	10	11	0	12	1	3	0	69	0	9.82	7.36	1.33	0.00	23.2	17.4	1.77	.350	6.75	8.59
16	Jose Cuas J. Cuas	14	2024	CHC	9	0	0		0	7.43	0	0	0	13.1	16	11	12	3	6	3	2	0	65	2	9.45	4.05	2.33	2.03	21.5	9.2	1.65	.333	8.10	10.80
17	Julian Merryweather J. Merryweather	14	2024	CHC	15	1	1	.500	0	6.60	0	0	0	15.0	18	11	11	0	9	3	4	0	74	2	8.40	5.40	1.56	0.00	18.9	12.2	1.80	.375	6.60	10.80
18	Adbert Alzolay A. Alzolay	13	2024	CHC	18	1	4	.200	0	4.67	0	0	4	17.1	19	9	13	6	6	1	11	0	75	0	6.75	3.12	2.17	3.12	17.3	8.0	1.44	.265	6.75	9.87
19	Jack Neely J. Neely	7	2024	CHC	6	0	0		0	9.00	0	0	0	6.0	8	6	6	2	2	0	6	0	28	1	10.50	3.00	3.50	3.00	25.0	7.1	1.67	.353	9.00	12.00
20	Kyle Hendricks K. Hendricks	6	2024	CHC	5	0	0		0	3.14	0	0	0	14.1	12	5	5	1	4	0	4	0	56	0	3.77	2.51	1.50	0.63	10.7	7.1	1.12	.244	3.14	7.53
21	Richard Lovelady R. Lovelady	6	2024	CHC	7	0	1	.000	0	7.94	0	0	0	5.2	9	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	28	0	9.53	3.18	3.00	1.59	21.4	7.1	1.94	.421	7.94	14.29
22	Hunter Bigge H. Bigge	5	2024	CHC	4	0	0		0	2.70	0	0	0	3.1	3	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	15	0	13.50	5.40	2.50	0.00	33.3	13.3	1.50	.375	2.70	8.10
23	Shawn Armstrong S. Armstrong	4	2024	CHC	8	0	1	.000	0	4.91	0	0	0	7.1	10	4	4	0	4	0	2	0	32	0	4.91	4.91	1.00	0.00	12.5	12.5	1.91	.417	4.91	12.27
24	Caleb Kilian C. Kilian	3	2024	CHC	1	0	1	.000	0	7.94	0	0	0	5.2	8	5	6	2	4	0	0	0	28	0	4.76	6.35	0.75	3.18	10.7	14.3	2.12	.316	9.53	12.71
25	Trey Wingenter T. Wingenter	3	2024	CHC	5	0	0		0	3.00	0	0	0	6.0	8	2	2	1	2	0	4	0	28	0	4.50	3.00	1.50	1.50	10.7	7.1	1.67	.318	3.00	12.00

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