most strikeouts by a rookie pitcher 2018

Jack Flaherty struck out the most batters by a rookie in 2018, with 182 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	Jack Flaherty J. Flaherty	182	2018	STL	28	8	9	.471	28	3.34	0	0	0	151.0	108	56	59	20	59	11	0	3	615	6	10.85	3.52	3.08	1.19	29.6	9.6	1.11	.257	3.52	86	3.86	97	6.44	2
2	Walker Buehler W. Buehler	151	2018	LAD	24	8	5	.615	23	2.62	0	0	0	137.1	95	40	43	12	37	6	0	1	541	4	9.90	2.42	4.08	0.79	27.9	6.8	0.96	.248	2.82	69	3.03	75	6.23	15.2
3	Joey Lucchesi J. Lucchesi	145	2018	SDP	26	8	9	.471	26	4.08	0	0	0	130.0	125	59	63	23	43	4	0	2	548	4	10.04	2.98	3.37	1.59	26.5	7.8	1.29	.306	4.36	105	4.31	107	8.65	-4.3
4	Andrew Suárez A. Suárez	130	2018	SFG	29	7	13	.350	29	4.49	0	0	0	160.1	163	80	85	23	45	3	0	1	665	4	7.30	2.53	2.89	1.29	19.5	6.8	1.30	.302	4.77	115	4.30	111	9.15	-8.5
5	Trevor Richards T. Richards	130	2018	MIA	25	4	9	.308	25	4.42	0	0	0	126.1	121	62	65	15	54	5	0	5	547	8	9.26	3.85	2.41	1.07	23.8	9.9	1.39	.309	4.63	116	4.04	103	8.62	-1.6
6	Ryan Yarbrough R. Yarbrough	128	2018	TBR	38	16	6	.727	6	3.91	0	0	0	147.1	140	64	70	18	50	8	3	6	628	1	7.82	3.05	2.56	1.10	20.4	8.0	1.29	.288	4.28	95	4.19	103	8.55	-2.4
7	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	118	2018	CLE	20	11	5	.688	19	4.55	0	0	0	114.2	130	58	60	13	23	2	0	0	485	5	9.26	1.81	5.13	1.02	24.3	4.7	1.33	.356	4.71	104	3.22	76	10.20	12.8
8	Tyler Mahle T. Mahle	110	2018	CIN	23	7	9	.438	23	4.98	0	0	0	112.0	125	62	68	22	53	3	0	7	507	1	8.84	4.26	2.08	1.77	21.7	10.5	1.59	.323	5.46	121	5.24	125	10.04	-12.7
9	Domingo Germán D. Germán	102	2018	NYY	21	2	6	.250	14	5.57	0	0	0	85.2	81	53	55	15	33	5	2	0	375	7	10.72	3.47	3.09	1.58	27.2	8.8	1.33	.300	5.78	131	4.38	102	8.51	-0.6
10	Eric Lauer E. Lauer	100	2018	SDP	23	6	7	.462	23	4.34	0	0	0	112.0	127	54	61	15	46	6	0	2	504	2	8.04	3.70	2.17	1.21	19.8	9.1	1.54	.332	4.90	111	4.50	112	10.21	-6.1
11	Jaime Barría J. Barría	98	2018	LAA	26	10	9	.526	26	3.41	0	0	0	129.1	117	49	50	17	47	6	0	0	537	3	6.82	3.27	2.09	1.18	18.2	8.8	1.27	.271	3.48	81	4.58	107	8.14	-4.3
12	Brad Keller B. Keller	96	2018	KCR	41	9	6	.600	20	3.08	1	0	0	140.1	133	48	50	7	50	2	2	1	583	8	6.16	3.21	1.92	0.45	16.5	8.6	1.30	.294	3.21	71	3.55	86	8.53	9.4
13	Freddy Peralta F. Peralta	96	2018	MIL	16	6	4	.600	14	4.25	0	0	0	78.1	49	37	37	8	40	4	1	1	321	3	11.03	4.60	2.40	0.92	29.9	12.5	1.14	.237	4.25	106	3.72	92	5.63	3
14	Noe Ramirez N. Ramirez	95	2018	LAA	69	7	5	.583	1	4.54	0	0	1	83.1	75	42	43	15	30	6	12	3	353	4	10.26	3.24	3.17	1.62	26.9	8.5	1.26	.290	4.64	107	4.51	106	8.10	-2.2
15	Dereck Rodríguez D. Rodríguez	89	2018	SFG	21	6	4	.600	19	2.81	0	0	0	118.1	98	37	43	9	36	7	1	2	487	1	6.77	2.74	2.47	0.68	18.3	7.4	1.13	.257	3.27	72	3.73	97	7.45	1.5
16	Richard Rodriguez R. Rodriguez	88	2018	PIT	63	4	3	.571	0	2.47	0	0	0	69.1	55	19	19	5	19	5	20	3	279	11	11.42	2.47	4.63	0.65	31.5	6.8	1.07	.309	2.47	62	2.59	64	7.14	11.3
17	Caleb Smith C. Smith	88	2018	MIA	16	5	6	.455	16	4.19	0	0	0	77.1	63	36	36	10	33	3	0	2	326	0	10.24	3.84	2.67	1.16	27.0	10.1	1.24	.276	4.19	110	3.96	100	7.33	-0.2
18	Brian Johnson B. Johnson	87	2018	BOS	38	4	5	.444	13	4.17	0	0	0	99.1	104	46	49	16	38	1	10	0	434	1	7.88	3.44	2.29	1.45	20.0	8.8	1.43	.301	4.44	94	4.68	112	9.42	-5.5
19	Felix Pena F. Pena	85	2018	LAA	19	3	5	.375	17	4.18	0	0	0	92.2	87	43	45	12	28	4	1	0	389	7	8.26	2.72	3.04	1.17	21.9	7.2	1.24	.288	4.37	99	4.04	95	8.45	2.4
20	Lou Trivino L. Trivino	82	2018	OAK	69	8	3	.727	1	2.92	0	0	4	74.0	53	24	24	8	31	2	10	4	299	4	9.97	3.77	2.65	0.97	27.4	10.4	1.14	.256	2.92	71	3.68	90	6.45	3.5
21	Ryne Stanek R. Stanek	81	2018	TBR	59	2	3	.400	29	2.98	0	0	0	66.1	45	22	23	8	27	1	10	1	263	5	10.99	3.66	3.00	1.09	30.8	10.3	1.09	.253	3.12	73	3.55	87	6.11	3.8
22	Reyes Moronta R. Moronta	79	2018	SFG	69	5	2	.714	0	2.49	0	0	1	65.0	34	18	20	4	37	0	9	4	262	5	10.94	5.12	2.14	0.55	30.2	14.1	1.09	.211	2.77	64	3.23	84	4.71	4.6
23	Joe Jiménez J. Jiménez	78	2018	DET	68	5	4	.556	0	4.31	0	0	3	62.2	53	30	34	5	22	3	17	3	267	3	11.20	3.16	3.55	0.72	29.2	8.2	1.20	.302	4.88	99	2.90	67	7.61	9.7
24	Burch Smith B. Smith	77	2018	KCR	38	1	6	.143	6	6.92	0	0	0	78.0	90	60	60	15	40	4	16	2	358	0	8.88	4.62	1.93	1.73	21.5	11.2	1.67	.338	6.92	159	5.37	130	10.38	-10.9
25	Tanner Scott T. Scott	76	2018	BAL	53	3	3	.500	0	5.40	0	0	0	53.1	55	32	33	6	28	1	8	1	240	7	12.83	4.72	2.71	1.01	31.7	11.7	1.56	.380	5.57	127	3.40	77	9.28	5.8