most strikeouts by a relief pitcher in mlb

Mason Miller has fanned the most batters by a relief pitcher this season, with 59 strikeouts.

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most strikeouts by a relief pitcher in MLB this regular season

	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	Mason Miller M. Miller	59	2026	SDP	29	1	1	.500	0	0.90	0	0	19	30.0	12	3	4	0	12	0	25	0	114	3	17.70	3.60	4.92	0.00	51.8	10.5	0.80	.279	1.20	3.60
2	Aaron Ashby A. Ashby	55	2026	MIL	30	9	0	1.000	0	2.43	0	0	0	40.2	34	11	15	3	20	2	4	1	174	3	12.17	4.43	2.75	0.66	31.6	11.5	1.33	.330	3.32	7.52
3	Jeff Hoffman J. Hoffman	52	2026	TOR	33	4	4	.500	0	5.64	0	0	5	30.1	37	19	22	4	11	3	15	3	140	2	15.43	3.26	4.73	1.19	37.1	7.9	1.58	.471	6.53	10.98
4	Louis Varland L. Varland	49	2026	TOR	34	3	2	.600	0	0.96	0	0	12	37.2	27	4	9	1	10	0	20	1	145	1	11.71	2.39	4.90	0.24	33.8	6.9	0.98	.306	2.15	6.45
5	Cade Smith C. Smith	49	2026	CLE	31	2	0	1.000	0	2.48	0	0	23	32.2	28	9	11	1	6	0	28	1	129	5	13.50	1.65	8.17	0.28	38.0	4.7	1.04	.370	3.03	7.71
6	Grant Taylor G. Taylor	47	2026	CWS	23	2	0	1.000	0	2.56	0	0	2	31.2	28	9	13	2	9	0	5	0	132	2	13.36	2.56	5.22	0.57	35.6	6.8	1.17	.351	3.69	7.96
7	Drew Anderson D. Anderson	46	2026	DET	24	2	3	.400	0	4.38	0	0	2	39.0	37	19	21	6	15	1	8	1	168	2	10.62	3.46	3.07	1.38	27.4	8.9	1.33	.310	4.85	8.54
8	Sean Manaea S. Manaea	45	2026	NYM	14	1	1	.500	0	5.02	0	0	0	43.0	45	24	25	5	17	4	6	0	192	1	9.42	3.56	2.65	1.05	23.4	8.9	1.44	.331	5.23	9.42
9	Yohan Ramírez Y. Ramírez	45	2026	PIT	30	4	2	.667	0	4.31	0	0	1	39.2	31	19	22	4	21	7	8	7	175	2	10.21	4.76	2.14	0.91	25.7	12.0	1.31	.276	4.99	7.03
10	Ryan Zeferjahn R. Zeferjahn	42	2026	LAA	28	3	3	.500	0	4.91	0	0	2	33.0	20	18	20	3	25	6	11	3	150	1	11.45	6.82	1.68	0.82	28.0	16.7	1.36	.230	5.45	5.45
11	Adrian Morejon A. Morejon	41	2026	SDP	33	5	1	.833	0	4.00	0	0	1	36.0	31	16	17	2	7	1	4	0	146	0	10.25	1.75	5.86	0.50	28.1	4.8	1.06	.305	4.25	7.75
12	AJ Blubaugh	41	2026	HOU	29	3	2	.600	0	3.86	0	0	0	46.2	33	20	21	5	27	1	5	0	198	4	7.91	5.21	1.52	0.96	20.7	13.6	1.29	.226	4.05	6.36
13	Fernando Cruz F. Cruz	40	2026	NYY	34	4	1	.800	0	2.01	0	0	1	31.1	20	7	8	2	19	2	3	1	131	2	11.49	5.46	2.11	0.57	30.5	14.5	1.24	.265	2.30	5.74
14	Dylan Lee D. Lee	40	2026	ATL	33	2	0	1.000	0	1.14	0	0	0	31.2	15	4	5	1	5	0	0	0	115	0	11.37	1.42	8.00	0.28	34.8	4.3	0.63	.203	1.42	4.26
15	Sean Newcomb S. Newcomb	40	2026	CWS	27	0	1	.000	0	2.16	0	0	1	41.2	30	10	11	1	11	5	3	2	165	0	8.64	2.38	3.64	0.22	24.2	6.7	0.98	.269	2.38	6.48
16	Spencer Miles S. Miles	39	2026	TOR	17	3	0	1.000	0	2.54	0	0	0	39.0	26	11	13	3	11	0	5	0	153	1	9.00	2.54	3.55	0.69	25.5	7.2	0.95	.230	3.00	6.00
17	Hogan Harris H. Harris	39	2026	ATH	36	3	0	1.000	0	2.67	0	0	6	33.2	27	10	11	2	23	2	9	2	151	0	10.43	6.15	1.70	0.53	25.8	15.2	1.49	.294	2.94	7.22
18	Erik Sabrowski E. Sabrowski	39	2026	CLE	25	2	1	.667	0	1.71	0	0	0	21.0	7	4	4	1	13	0	1	0	83	3	16.71	5.57	3.00	0.43	47.0	15.7	0.95	.200	1.71	3.00
19	Brad Lord B. Lord	39	2026	WSH	22	5	0	1.000	0	2.44	0	0	1	48.0	35	13	14	4	14	4	4	2	196	2	7.31	2.63	2.79	0.75	19.9	7.1	1.02	.230	2.63	6.56
20	Anthony Nunez A. Nunez	38	2026	BAL	32	2	2	.500	0	4.98	0	0	3	34.1	30	19	23	5	14	1	7	1	148	2	9.96	3.67	2.71	1.31	25.7	9.5	1.28	.278	6.03	7.86
21	Devin Williams D. Williams	37	2026	NYM	26	3	2	.600	0	5.01	0	0	10	23.1	21	13	13	2	14	0	17	1	103	0	14.27	5.40	2.64	0.77	35.9	13.6	1.50	.380	5.01	8.10
22	Andrés Muñoz A. Muñoz	37	2026	SEA	27	3	4	.429	0	5.92	0	0	10	24.1	24	16	17	4	11	1	19	0	110	1	13.68	4.07	3.36	1.48	33.6	10.0	1.44	.351	6.29	8.88
23	Juan Morillo J. Morillo	37	2026	AZ	31	2	3	.400	0	2.57	0	0	1	28.0	18	8	9	2	11	2	7	1	116	1	11.89	3.54	3.36	0.64	31.9	9.5	1.04	.250	2.89	5.79
24	Brent Headrick B. Headrick	37	2026	NYY	35	4	1	.800	0	1.87	0	0	0	33.2	30	7	8	2	14	0	3	1	143	1	9.89	3.74	2.64	0.53	25.9	9.8	1.31	.311	2.14	8.02
25	Evan Sisk E. Sisk	36	2026	PIT	26	1	0	1.000	0	1.80	0	0	0	30.0	23	6	6	1	11	4	5	0	122	1	10.80	3.30	3.27	0.30	29.5	9.0	1.13	.314	1.80	6.90

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272

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Dodgers	45	27	.625
Padres	37	34	.521	7.5
Diamondbacks	36	35	.507	8.5
Giants	29	43	.403	16.0
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Tue 6/16	SDP	@	STL	7:45 PM
Wed 6/17	SDP	@	STL	2:15 PM
Fri 6/19	SDP	@	TEX	8:05 PM
Sat 6/20	SDP	@	TEX	4:05 PM
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24

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Buxton

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Walker

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Alvarez

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Arraez

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Wood

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OBP Leaders

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Alvarez

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SLG Leaders

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Alvarez

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Rice

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Buxton

SB Leaders

26

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Nuñez

24

Ramírez

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Win Leaders

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Williams

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Martin

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131

Misiorowski

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Sánchez

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Wood

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Marlins	36	37	.493	11.0
Mets	32	40	.444	14.5
NL Central	W	L	PCT	GB
Brewers	43	26	.623
Cardinals	39	31	.557	4.5
Cubs	38	35	.521	7.0
Pirates	36	36	.500	8.5
Reds	34	37	.479	10.0
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Mason Miller has fanned the most batters by a relief pitcher this season, with 59 strikeouts.

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