most strikeouts in a by a rookie pitcher since 1969

Since 1969, Dwight Gooden has struck out the most batters by a rookie, with 276 strikeouts in 1984.

	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	Dwight Gooden D. Gooden	276	1984	NYM	31	17	9	.654	31	2.60	7	3	0	218.0	161	63	72	7	73	2	0	2	879	3	11.39	3.01	3.78	0.29	31.4	8.3	1.07	.296	2.97	74	1.68	48	6.65	44.6
2	Hideo Nomo H. Nomo	236	1995	LAD	28	13	6	.684	28	2.54	4	3	0	191.1	124	54	63	14	78	5	0	2	780	19	11.10	3.67	3.03	0.66	30.3	10.0	1.06	.246	2.96	65	2.88	71	5.83	26.1
3	Kerry Wood K. Wood	233	1998	CHC	26	13	6	.684	26	3.40	1	1	0	166.2	117	63	69	14	85	11	0	1	699	6	12.58	4.59	2.74	0.76	33.3	12.2	1.21	.289	3.73	80	3.16	73	6.32	21.9
4	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	221	2012	TEX	29	16	9	.640	29	3.90	0	0	0	191.1	156	83	89	14	89	10	0	1	816	8	10.40	4.19	2.48	0.66	27.1	10.9	1.28	.295	4.19	90	3.28	77	7.34	20.3
5	John Montefusco J. Montefusco	215	1975	SFG	35	15	9	.625	34	2.88	10	4	0	243.2	210	78	85	11	86	8	1	12	1,018	6	7.94	3.18	2.50	0.41	21.1	8.4	1.21	.285	3.14	77	2.55	73	7.76	26.4
6	Bob Johnson B. Johnson	206	1970	KCR	40	8	13	.381	26	3.07	10	1	4	214.0	178	73	82	18	82	11	7	4	894	6	8.66	3.45	2.51	0.76	23.0	9.2	1.21	.277	3.45	83	3.10	79	7.49	19.4
7	Mark Langston M. Langston	204	1984	SEA	35	17	10	.630	33	3.40	5	2	0	225.0	188	85	99	16	118	8	0	5	965	4	8.16	4.72	1.73	0.64	21.1	12.2	1.36	.278	3.96	84	3.55	85	7.52	15.4
8	Kodai Senga K. Senga	202	2023	NYM	29	12	7	.632	29	2.98	0	0	0	166.1	126	55	60	17	77	5	0	0	694	14	10.93	4.17	2.62	0.92	29.1	11.1	1.22	.277	3.25	71	3.63	84	6.82	13
9	Spencer Strider S. Strider	202	2022	ATL	31	11	5	.688	20	2.67	0	0	0	131.2	86	39	42	7	45	3	3	1	528	6	13.81	3.08	4.49	0.48	38.3	8.5	0.99	.292	2.87	65	1.82	46	5.88	31.3
10	Daisuke Matsuzaka D. Matsuzaka	201	2007	BOS	32	15	12	.556	32	4.40	1	0	0	204.2	191	100	100	25	80	13	0	1	874	5	8.84	3.52	2.51	1.10	23.0	9.2	1.32	.299	4.40	95	4.22	98	8.40	1.7
11	Tom Griffin T. Griffin	200	1969	HOU	31	11	10	.524	31	3.54	6	3	0	188.1	156	74	80	19	93	7	0	4	810	6	9.56	4.44	2.15	0.91	24.7	11.5	1.32	.279	3.82	101	3.28	98	7.45	0.9
12	Rick Ankiel R. Ankiel	194	2000	STL	31	11	7	.611	30	3.50	0	0	0	175.0	137	68	80	21	90	6	0	2	735	12	9.98	4.63	2.16	1.08	26.4	12.2	1.30	.274	4.11	76	4.11	86	7.05	13.3
13	Ed Correa E. Correa	189	1986	TEX	32	12	14	.462	32	4.23	4	2	0	202.1	167	95	102	15	126	3	0	2	886	19	8.41	5.60	1.50	0.67	21.3	14.2	1.45	.275	4.54	99	3.77	91	7.43	8.7
14	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	187	2013	MIA	28	12	6	.667	28	2.19	0	0	0	172.2	111	42	47	10	58	5	0	5	681	3	9.75	3.02	3.22	0.52	27.5	8.5	0.98	.240	2.45	60	2.72	75	5.79	18.1
15	Jon Gray J. Gray	185	2016	COL	29	10	10	.500	29	4.61	1	1	0	168.0	153	86	92	18	59	12	0	2	712	7	9.91	3.16	3.14	0.96	26.0	8.3	1.26	.308	4.93	95	3.60	82	8.20	14.6
16	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
17	Lance Lynn L. Lynn	180	2012	STL	35	18	7	.720	29	3.78	0	0	0	176.0	168	74	76	16	64	10	2	3	744	3	9.20	3.27	2.81	0.82	24.2	8.6	1.32	.321	3.89	98	3.48	90	8.59	7.4
18	Fernando Valenzuela F. Valenzuela	180	1981	LAD	25	13	7	.650	25	2.48	11	8	0	192.1	140	53	55	11	61	1	0	4	758	4	8.42	2.85	2.95	0.51	23.7	8.0	1.05	.255	2.57	73	2.44	72	6.55	20.4
19	Frank Tanana F. Tanana	180	1974	CAL	39	14	19	.424	35	3.12	12	4	0	268.2	262	93	104	27	77	8	2	4	1,127	4	6.03	2.58	2.34	0.90	16.0	6.8	1.26	.281	3.48	92	3.48	99	8.78	0.4
20	Kenta Maeda K. Maeda	179	2016	LAD	32	16	11	.593	32	3.48	0	0	0	175.2	150	68	72	20	50	8	0	6	716	6	9.17	2.56	3.58	1.02	25.0	7.0	1.14	.283	3.69	87	3.57	88	7.69	9.2
21	Matt Cain M. Cain	179	2006	SFG	32	13	12	.520	31	4.15	1	1	0	190.2	157	88	93	18	87	6	1	1	818	9	8.45	4.11	2.06	0.85	21.9	10.6	1.28	.263	4.39	92	3.95	89	7.41	10.2
22	Hunter Brown H. Brown	178	2023	HOU	31	11	13	.458	29	5.09	0	0	0	155.2	157	88	94	26	55	9	1	0	665	4	10.29	3.18	3.24	1.50	26.8	8.3	1.36	.330	5.43	120	4.37	103	9.08	-2.3
23	Ron Guidry R. Guidry	176	1977	NYY	31	16	7	.696	25	2.82	9	5	1	210.2	174	66	72	12	65	0	4	2	850	6	7.52	2.78	2.71	0.51	20.7	7.6	1.13	.271	3.08	72	2.72	68	7.43	30.5
24	Matt Moore M. Moore	175	2012	TBR	31	11	11	.500	31	3.81	0	0	0	177.1	158	75	85	18	81	7	0	5	759	8	8.88	4.11	2.16	0.91	23.1	10.7	1.35	.293	4.31	98	3.92	97	8.02	2.3
25	Shota Imanaga S. Imanaga	174	2024	CHC	29	15	3	.833	29	2.91	0	0	0	173.1	149	56	66	27	28	3	0	0	694	3	9.03	1.45	6.21	1.40	25.1	4.0	1.02	.264	3.43	73	3.71	93	7.74	5