most strikeouts as a pirates starting pitcher 1998

Jason Schmidt fanned the most hitters by a Pirates starting pitcher in 1998, with 158 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	Jason Schmidt J. Schmidt	158	1998	PIT	33	11	14	.440	33	4.07	0	0	214.1	228	97	106	24	71	4	3	916	15	6.63	2.98	2.23	1.01	17.2	7.8	1.40	.310	4.45	9.57
2	Francisco Cordova F. Cordova	157	1998	PIT	33	13	14	.481	33	3.31	3	2	220.1	204	81	91	22	69	3	5	921	1	6.41	2.82	2.28	0.90	17.0	7.5	1.24	.272	3.72	8.33
3	Jon Lieber J. Lieber	137	1998	PIT	28	8	14	.364	28	4.11	2	0	170.2	182	78	93	23	40	3	4	730	0	7.22	2.11	3.43	1.21	18.8	5.5	1.30	.302	4.90	9.60
4	Chris Peters C. Peters	88	1998	PIT	21	8	8	.500	21	3.83	1	0	124.2	125	53	57	11	42	2	2	533	4	6.35	3.03	2.10	0.79	16.5	7.9	1.34	.292	4.11	9.02
5	Jose Silva J. Silva	64	1998	PIT	18	6	7	.462	18	4.40	1	0	100.1	104	49	55	7	30	1	2	425	2	5.74	2.69	2.13	0.63	15.1	7.1	1.34	.300	4.93	9.33
6	Esteban Loaiza E. Loaiza	45	1998	PIT	14	4	5	.444	14	4.94	0	0	78.1	87	43	45	12	23	3	1	338	1	5.17	2.64	1.96	1.38	13.3	6.8	1.40	.294	5.17	10.00
7	Todd Van Poppel T. Van Poppel	20	1998	PIT	7	1	1	.500	7	6.08	0	0	37.0	45	25	26	4	14	0	3	164	4	4.86	3.41	1.43	0.97	12.2	8.5	1.59	.325	6.32	10.95
8	Elmer Dessens E. Dessens	10	1998	PIT	5	0	4	.000	5	6.75	0	0	26.2	32	20	20	6	10	0	1	119	0	3.38	3.38	1.00	2.03	8.4	8.4	1.58	.280	6.75	10.80
9	Sean Lawrence S. Lawrence	9	1998	PIT	3	1	1	.500	3	7.43	0	0	13.1	15	11	11	3	7	0	0	61	0	6.08	4.72	1.29	2.03	14.8	11.5	1.65	.286	7.43	10.13
10	Mike Williams M. Williams	4	1998	PIT	1	1	0	1.000	1	1.80	0	0	5.0	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	20	0	7.20	1.80	4.00	0.00	20.0	5.0	1.20	.333	1.80	9.00

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