most strikeouts as a pirates pitcher in 2017

Gerrit Cole struck out the most hitters for the Pirates in 2017, with 196 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	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
2	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
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	Felipe Vazquez F. Vazquez	88	2017	PIT	73	5	3	.625	0	1.67	0	0	21	75.1	47	14	19	4	20	4	40	0	300	2	10.51	2.39	4.40	0.48	29.3	6.7	0.89	.234	2.27	39	2.46	57	5.62	15.5
7	Daniel Hudson D. Hudson	66	2017	PIT	71	2	7	.222	0	4.38	0	0	0	61.2	57	30	34	7	33	5	18	1	271	4	9.63	4.82	2.00	1.02	24.4	12.2	1.46	.313	4.96	103	4.33	100	8.32	-0.1
8	Juan Nicasio J. Nicasio	60	2017	PIT	65	2	5	.286	0	2.85	0	0	2	60.0	49	19	20	4	18	2	8	2	243	1	9.00	2.70	3.33	0.60	24.7	7.4	1.12	.283	3.00	67	3.02	70	7.35	8.7
9	Tyler Glasnow T. Glasnow	56	2017	PIT	15	2	7	.222	13	7.69	0	0	0	62.0	81	53	61	13	44	2	0	2	305	3	8.13	6.39	1.27	1.89	18.4	14.4	2.02	.358	8.85	181	6.30	146	11.76	-13.6
10	Wade LeBlanc W. LeBlanc	54	2017	PIT	50	5	2	.714	0	4.50	0	0	1	68.0	64	34	35	10	17	1	18	1	283	2	7.15	2.25	3.18	1.32	19.1	6.0	1.19	.269	4.63	106	4.27	99	8.47	0.4
11	Tony Watson T. Watson	35	2017	PIT	47	5	3	.625	0	3.66	0	0	10	46.2	57	19	20	7	14	3	22	4	209	0	6.75	2.70	2.50	1.35	16.7	6.7	1.52	.333	3.86	86	4.69	109	10.99	-2
12	A.J. Schugel	27	2017	PIT	32	4	0	1.000	0	1.97	0	0	0	32.0	31	7	8	3	14	0	4	2	136	2	7.59	3.94	1.93	0.84	19.9	10.3	1.41	.304	2.25	46	3.99	93	8.72	1.1
13	Jhan Marinez J. Marinez	26	2017	PIT	24	0	1	.000	0	3.18	0	0	0	34.0	34	12	12	4	12	4	12	1	148	4	6.88	3.18	2.17	1.06	17.6	8.1	1.35	.294	3.18	75	4.56	106	9.00	-0.9
14	Johnny Barbato J. Barbato	23	2017	PIT	24	0	1	.000	0	4.08	0	0	0	28.2	25	13	13	4	18	2	7	0	130	1	7.22	5.65	1.28	1.26	17.7	13.8	1.50	.253	4.08	96	5.45	126	7.85	-3.6
15	Steven Brault S. Brault	23	2017	PIT	11	1	0	1.000	4	4.67	0	0	1	34.2	41	18	21	3	14	2	2	1	162	0	5.97	3.63	1.64	0.78	14.2	8.6	1.59	.317	5.45	110	4.33	100	10.64	-0.1
16	Edgar Santana E. Santana	20	2017	PIT	19	0	0		0	3.50	0	0	0	18.0	16	7	8	2	12	1	2	1	81	0	10.00	6.00	1.67	1.00	24.7	14.8	1.56	.304	4.00	82	4.54	105	8.00	-0.4
17	Dovydas Neverauskas D. Neverauskas	17	2017	PIT	24	1	1	.500	0	3.91	0	0	0	25.1	24	11	11	4	8	1	11	0	105	2	6.04	2.84	2.13	1.42	16.2	7.6	1.26	.267	3.91	92	4.93	114	8.53	-1.7
18	George Kontos G. Kontos	15	2017	PIT	15	1	1	.500	0	1.84	0	0	1	14.2	9	3	3	1	3	0	4	0	55	0	9.20	1.84	5.00	0.61	27.3	5.5	0.82	.222	1.84	43	2.60	60	5.52	2.8
19	Josh Lindblom J. Lindblom	10	2017	PIT	4	0	0		0	7.84	0	0	0	10.1	18	9	9	0	3	0	1	0	51	0	8.71	2.61	3.33	0.00	19.6	5.9	2.03	.474	7.84	184	2.09	48	15.68	2.6
20	Angel Sanchez A. Sanchez	10	2017	PIT	8	1	0	1.000	0	8.76	0	0	0	12.1	16	12	12	5	1	0	2	0	54	2	7.30	0.73	10.00	3.65	18.5	1.9	1.38	.289	8.76	206	7.04	163	11.68	-3.7
21	Antonio Bastardo A. Bastardo	8	2017	PIT	9	0	1	.000	0	15.00	0	0	0	9.0	16	15	15	5	9	0	5	0	52	2	8.00	9.00	0.89	5.00	15.4	17.3	2.78	.367	15.00	353	11.59	269	16.00	-7.3
22	Jack Leathersich J. Leathersich	6	2017	PIT	6	0	0		0	0.00	0	0	0	4.1	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	18	0	12.46	4.15	3.00	0.00	33.3	11.1	1.15	.300	0.00	0	1.77	41	6.23	1.2
23	Dan Runzler D. Runzler	4	2017	PIT	8	0	0		0	4.50	0	0	0	4.0	7	2	4	2	2	0	0	0	20	0	9.00	4.50	2.00	4.50	20.0	10.0	2.25	.417	9.00	106	9.15	212	15.75	-2.1
24	Joaquin Benoit J. Benoit	3	2017	PIT	8	0	2	.000	0	7.56	0	0	0	8.1	11	7	9	2	6	1	1	0	42	1	3.24	6.48	0.50	2.16	7.1	14.3	2.04	.300	9.72	178	8.07	187	11.88	-3.5

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Brewers	81	51	.614
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Cardinals	66	67	.496	15.5
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Sun 8/30	PIT	@	STL	2:15 PM
Tue 9/1	SFG	@	PIT	6:40 PM
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Nationals	62	72	.463	16.0
Mets	60	72	.455	17.0
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Brewers	81	51	.614
Cubs	76	58	.567	6.0
Cardinals	66	67	.496	15.5
Pirates	65	70	.481	17.5
Reds	63	71	.470	19.0
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