most strikeouts as a pirates starting pitcher 1996

Denny Neagle fanned the most hitters by a Pirates starting pitcher in 1996, with 131 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	CG	SHO	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	Denny Neagle D. Neagle	131	1996	PIT	27	14	6	.700	27	3.05	1	0	182.2	186	62	67	21	34	3	2	745	2	6.45	1.68	3.85	1.03	17.6	4.6	1.20	.297	3.30	9.16
2	Paul Wagner P. Wagner	78	1996	PIT	15	4	8	.333	15	5.58	1	0	79.0	83	49	49	10	38	3	2	350	7	8.89	4.33	2.05	1.14	22.3	10.9	1.53	.330	5.58	9.46
3	Danny Darwin D. Darwin	69	1996	PIT	19	7	9	.438	19	3.02	0	0	122.1	117	41	48	9	16	6	0	493	3	5.08	1.18	4.31	0.66	14.0	3.2	1.09	.275	3.53	8.61
4	Jon Lieber J. Lieber	57	1996	PIT	15	7	2	.778	15	3.91	0	0	92.0	104	40	45	9	17	2	2	392	0	5.58	1.66	3.35	0.88	14.5	4.3	1.32	.309	4.40	10.17
5	Zane Smith Z. Smith	47	1996	PIT	16	4	6	.400	16	5.08	1	1	83.1	104	47	53	7	21	4	4	368	0	5.08	2.27	2.24	0.76	12.8	5.7	1.50	.336	5.72	11.23
6	Dan Miceli D. Miceli	34	1996	PIT	9	1	5	.167	9	6.86	0	0	42.0	52	32	35	8	21	0	1	193	7	7.29	4.50	1.62	1.71	17.6	10.9	1.74	.338	7.50	11.14
7	Esteban Loaiza E. Loaiza	32	1996	PIT	10	2	3	.400	10	4.96	1	1	52.2	65	29	32	11	19	2	2	236	0	5.47	3.25	1.68	1.88	13.6	8.1	1.59	.314	5.47	11.11
8	Jason Schmidt J. Schmidt	26	1996	PIT	6	2	2	.500	6	4.06	1	0	37.2	39	17	19	2	21	2	0	171	3	6.21	5.02	1.24	0.48	15.2	12.3	1.59	.308	4.54	9.32
9	Francisco Cordova F. Cordova	25	1996	PIT	6	2	0	1.000	6	3.86	0	0	32.2	36	14	16	2	4	1	0	134	0	6.89	1.10	6.25	0.55	18.7	3.0	1.22	.333	4.41	9.92
10	Chris Peters C. Peters	24	1996	PIT	10	1	4	.200	10	5.83	0	0	54.0	63	35	38	8	23	0	0	244	4	4.00	3.83	1.04	1.33	9.8	9.4	1.59	.291	6.33	10.50
11	Steve Parris S. Parris	21	1996	PIT	4	0	3	.000	4	5.32	0	0	22.0	26	13	14	1	8	0	0	98	1	8.59	3.27	2.63	0.41	21.4	8.2	1.55	.368	5.73	10.64
12	John Ericks J. Ericks	15	1996	PIT	4	0	3	.000	4	10.20	0	0	15.0	27	17	19	5	5	0	0	76	0	9.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	19.7	6.6	2.13	.431	11.40	16.20
13	John Hope J. Hope	13	1996	PIT	4	1	3	.250	4	7.23	0	0	18.2	16	15	18	5	11	2	1	84	2	6.27	5.30	1.18	2.41	15.5	13.1	1.45	.208	8.68	7.71
14	Matt Ruebel M. Ruebel	11	1996	PIT	7	1	1	.500	7	6.34	0	0	32.2	42	23	24	6	14	3	0	150	0	3.03	3.86	0.79	1.65	7.3	9.3	1.71	.310	6.61	11.57
15	Rich Loiselle R. Loiselle	8	1996	PIT	3	1	0	1.000	3	2.65	0	0	17.0	20	5	6	2	8	0	1	76	2	4.24	4.24	1.00	1.06	10.5	10.5	1.65	.310	3.18	10.59
16	Elmer Dessens E. Dessens	7	1996	PIT	3	0	2	.000	3	14.46	0	0	9.1	22	15	15	2	2	0	0	49	0	6.75	1.93	3.50	1.93	14.3	4.1	2.57	.526	14.46	21.21
17	Marc Wilkins M. Wilkins	6	1996	PIT	2	1	0	1.000	2	1.86	0	0	9.2	7	2	2	0	7	1	0	40	1	5.59	6.52	0.86	0.00	15.0	17.5	1.45	.269	1.86	6.52
18	Darrell May D. May	4	1996	PIT	2	0	1	.000	2	8.59	0	0	7.1	11	7	8	4	3	0	0	37	0	4.91	3.68	1.33	4.91	10.8	8.1	1.91	.269	9.82	13.50

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