most strikeouts as a nl central pitcher in 2017

Carlos Martinez fanned the most hitters in the NL Central in 2017, with 217 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	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Carlos Martinez C. Martinez	217	2017	STL	32	12	11	.522	32	3.64	2	2	0	205.0	179	83	93	27	71	8	0	3	858	9	9.53	3.12	3.06	1.19	25.3	8.3	1.22	.284	4.08	88	3.90	92	7.86	7.5
2	Jimmy Nelson J. Nelson	199	2017	MIL	29	12	6	.667	29	3.49	1	0	0	175.1	171	68	75	16	48	9	0	1	728	6	10.21	2.46	4.15	0.82	27.3	6.6	1.25	.340	3.85	80	3.04	70	8.78	25.5
3	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	196	2017	PIT	33	12	12	.500	33	4.26	0	0	0	203.0	199	96	98	31	55	4	0	1	849	7	8.69	2.44	3.56	1.37	23.1	6.5	1.25	.298	4.34	100	4.08	94	8.82	5.4
4	Jon Lester J. Lester	180	2017	CHC	32	13	8	.619	32	4.33	1	0	0	180.2	179	87	101	26	60	4	0	3	763	3	8.97	2.99	3.00	1.30	23.6	7.9	1.32	.310	5.03	100	4.09	95	8.92	4.5
5	Jake Arrieta J. Arrieta	163	2017	CHC	30	14	10	.583	30	3.53	0	0	0	168.1	150	66	82	23	55	10	0	3	707	14	8.71	2.94	2.96	1.23	23.1	7.8	1.22	.279	4.38	81	4.15	96	8.02	3.1
6	Michael Wacha M. Wacha	158	2017	STL	30	12	9	.571	30	4.13	1	1	0	165.2	170	76	82	17	55	3	0	3	701	5	8.58	2.99	2.87	0.92	22.5	7.8	1.36	.327	4.45	99	3.63	86	9.24	11.2
7	Lance Lynn L. Lynn	153	2017	STL	33	11	8	.579	33	3.43	0	0	0	186.1	151	71	80	27	78	10	0	5	776	2	7.39	3.77	1.96	1.30	19.7	10.1	1.23	.244	3.86	82	4.81	114	7.29	-12.4
8	John Lackey J. Lackey	149	2017	CHC	31	12	12	.500	30	4.59	0	0	0	170.2	165	87	93	36	53	12	0	3	731	11	7.86	2.79	2.81	1.90	20.4	7.3	1.28	.268	4.90	106	5.29	123	8.70	-18.4
9	Chad Kuhl C. Kuhl	142	2017	PIT	31	8	11	.421	31	4.35	0	0	0	157.1	159	76	81	17	72	6	0	7	680	8	8.12	4.12	1.97	0.97	20.9	10.6	1.47	.321	4.63	102	4.24	98	9.10	1.4
10	Chase Anderson C. Anderson	133	2017	MIL	25	12	4	.750	25	2.74	0	0	0	141.1	113	43	47	14	41	7	0	1	569	0	8.47	2.61	3.24	0.89	23.4	7.2	1.09	.265	2.99	63	3.57	82	7.20	12.3
11	Ivan Nova I. Nova	131	2017	PIT	31	11	14	.440	31	4.14	2	1	0	187.0	203	86	96	29	36	7	0	2	785	8	6.30	1.73	3.64	1.40	16.7	4.6	1.28	.299	4.62	97	4.45	103	9.77	-2.9
12	Corey Knebel C. Knebel	126	2017	MIL	76	1	4	.200	0	1.78	0	0	39	76.0	48	15	15	6	40	2	48	5	309	2	14.92	4.74	3.15	0.71	40.8	12.9	1.16	.311	1.78	41	2.52	58	5.68	15.4
13	Jameson Taillon J. Taillon	125	2017	PIT	25	8	7	.533	25	4.44	0	0	0	133.2	152	66	69	11	46	4	0	3	587	7	8.42	3.10	2.72	0.74	21.3	7.8	1.48	.352	4.65	105	3.47	80	10.23	12.5
14	Zach Davies Z. Davies	124	2017	MIL	33	17	9	.654	33	3.90	0	0	0	191.1	204	83	90	20	55	9	0	3	817	2	5.83	2.59	2.25	0.94	15.2	6.7	1.35	.302	4.23	89	4.22	97	9.60	3.1
15	Kyle Hendricks K. Hendricks	123	2017	CHC	24	7	5	.583	24	3.03	0	0	0	139.2	126	47	49	17	40	2	0	1	570	0	7.93	2.58	3.08	1.10	21.6	7.0	1.19	.281	3.16	70	3.87	90	8.12	6.9
16	Trevor Williams T. Williams	117	2017	PIT	31	7	9	.438	25	4.07	0	0	0	150.1	145	68	73	14	52	9	1	4	642	2	7.00	3.11	2.25	0.84	18.2	8.1	1.31	.291	4.37	96	4.02	93	8.68	4.9
17	Tim Adleman T. Adleman	108	2017	CIN	30	5	11	.313	20	5.52	0	0	0	122.1	124	75	79	29	51	6	4	1	531	1	7.95	3.75	2.12	2.13	20.3	9.6	1.43	.282	5.81	125	5.86	133	9.12	-19.4
18	Mike Leake M. Leake	103	2017	STL	26	7	12	.368	26	4.21	0	0	0	154.0	169	72	83	19	35	7	0	3	654	2	6.02	2.05	2.94	1.11	15.7	5.4	1.32	.306	4.85	101	4.23	100	9.88	-0.2
19	Mike Montgomery M. Montgomery	100	2017	CHC	44	7	8	.467	14	3.38	0	0	3	130.2	103	49	52	10	55	8	11	4	540	7	6.89	3.79	1.82	0.69	18.5	10.2	1.21	.253	3.58	78	4.06	94	7.09	3.7
20	Luis Castillo L. Castillo	98	2017	CIN	15	3	7	.300	15	3.12	0	0	0	89.1	64	31	32	11	32	3	0	1	359	2	9.87	3.22	3.06	1.11	27.3	8.9	1.07	.247	3.22	71	3.73	85	6.45	6.6
21	Jose Quintana J. Quintana	98	2017	CHC	14	7	3	.700	14	3.74	1	1	0	84.1	72	35	37	9	21	8	0	3	346	1	10.46	2.24	4.67	0.96	28.3	6.1	1.10	.300	3.95	86	3.25	75	7.68	10
22	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	96	2017	STL	24	12	5	.706	23	5.11	0	0	0	123.1	140	70	73	14	45	5	0	4	546	2	7.01	3.28	2.13	1.02	17.6	8.2	1.50	.326	5.33	123	4.29	101	10.22	-0.9
23	Carl Edwards Jr. C. Edwards Jr.	94	2017	CHC	73	5	4	.556	0	2.98	0	0	0	66.1	29	22	22	6	38	4	8	2	262	4	12.75	5.16	2.47	0.81	35.9	14.5	1.01	.192	2.98	69	3.39	79	3.93	6.8
24	Scott Feldman S. Feldman	93	2017	CIN	21	7	7	.500	21	4.77	1	1	0	111.1	116	59	62	21	35	6	0	2	472	3	7.52	2.83	2.66	1.70	19.7	7.4	1.36	.300	5.01	108	5.04	114	9.38	-7.6
25	Raisel Iglesias R. Iglesias	92	2017	CIN	63	3	3	.500	0	2.49	0	0	28	76.0	57	21	22	5	27	1	57	1	306	1	10.89	3.20	3.41	0.59	30.1	8.8	1.11	.287	2.61	56	2.69	61	6.75	14.2

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