most strikeouts per 9 by a starting pitcher since 2016 to 2021

Between the 2016 and 2021 seasons, 7 pitchers were tied for the best K/9 by a starting pitcher, with 27.00 per nine innings. The first three are Sam Howard, Jay Jackson and Cristopher Sánchez.

	NAME	K/9	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	Sam Howard S. Howard	27.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		0.00	100.0	0.0	0.00		0.00	0.00
2	Jay Jackson J. Jackson	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	81.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	1	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	4	0	54.00	0.50	27.00	25.0	50.0	9.00		81.00	27.00
3	Cristopher Sánchez C. Sánchez	27.00	1	0	0		1	108.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	27.00	1.00	0.00	20.0	20.0	12.00	1.000	108.00	81.00
4	Austin Brice A. Brice	27.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	18.00	1.50	0.00	50.0	33.3	2.00	.000	0.00	0.00
5	Jacob Barnes J. Barnes	27.00	1	0	0		1	27.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	2	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	8	1	27.00	1.00	9.00	37.5	37.5	5.00	1.000	27.00	18.00
6	Jaime Schultz J. Schultz	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	54.00	2	0	0	0	0.2	2	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	6	1	27.00	1.00	13.50	33.3	33.3	6.00	1.000	54.00	27.00
7	Jonny Venters J. Venters	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	135.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	54.00	0.50	0.00	16.7	33.3	15.00	1.000	135.00	81.00
8	Darwinzon Hernandez D. Hernandez	21.00	1	0	1	.000	1	9.00	7	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	4	0	5	0	0	0	18	0	15.00	1.40	0.00	38.9	27.8	2.67	.500	12.00	9.00
9	Phil Maton P. Maton	20.25	1	0	0		1	6.75	3	0	0	0	1.1	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	6.75	3.00	0.00	42.9	14.3	2.25	.667	6.75	13.50
10	Conner Greene C. Greene	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	1	0.00		0.00	40.0	0.0	1.00	.500	0.00	9.00
11	Pierce Johnson P. Johnson	18.00	2	0	1	.000	2	4.50	4	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	10	0	4.50	4.00	4.50	40.0	10.0	1.50	.333	4.50	9.00
12	Louis Head L. Head	18.00	2	0	0		2	9.00	4	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	9	0	0.00		4.50	44.4	0.0	1.50	.500	9.00	13.50
13	Luis Oviedo L. Oviedo	18.00	1	0	1	.000	1	54.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	5	6	8	1	3	1	0	0	13	0	27.00	0.67	9.00	15.4	23.1	8.00	.667	72.00	45.00
14	Anthony Bass A. Bass	18.00	1	0	1	.000	1	9.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.00		9.00	50.0	0.0	1.00	.000	9.00	9.00
15	Robinson Leyer R. Leyer	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	9.00	2.00	0.00	40.0	20.0	2.00	.500	0.00	9.00
16	Josh Taylor J. Taylor	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	18.00	1.00	0.00	33.3	33.3	3.00	.500	0.00	9.00
17	Joakim Soria J. Soria	18.00	1	0	0		1	9.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0.00		9.00	40.0	0.0	2.00	.500	9.00	18.00
18	Jace Fry J. Fry	18.00	1	0	1	.000	1	9.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	6	0	9.00	2.00	9.00	33.3	16.7	3.00	.500	9.00	18.00
19	William Cuevas W. Cuevas	18.00	1	0	1	.000	1	9.00	4	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	10	0	4.50	4.00	0.00	40.0	10.0	2.00	.600	9.00	13.50
20	Montana DuRapau M. DuRapau	16.88	2	0	1	.000	2	10.13	5	0	0	0	2.2	4	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	14	0	6.75	2.50	3.38	35.7	14.3	2.25	.500	10.13	13.50
21	Nick Nelson N. Nelson	16.20	2	0	1	.000	2	16.20	3	0	0	0	1.2	2	3	3	0	5	1	0	0	13	1	27.00	0.60	0.00	23.1	38.5	4.20	.500	16.20	10.80
22	Brusdar Graterol B. Graterol	16.20	3	0	0		3	8.10	6	0	0	0	3.1	4	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	14	0	2.70	6.00	2.70	42.9	7.1	1.50	.500	8.10	10.80
23	Brett Martin B. Martin	16.20	2	0	1	.000	2	27.00	3	0	0	0	1.2	5	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	13	1	10.80	1.50	0.00	23.1	15.4	4.20	.714	27.00	27.00
24	Jen-Ho Tseng J. Tseng	16.20	2	0	0		2	14.40	9	0	0	0	5.0	9	8	8	3	1	1	0	0	27	0	1.80	9.00	5.40	33.3	3.7	2.00	.462	14.40	16.20
25	Sam Coonrod S. Coonrod	15.43	2	0	0		2	3.86	4	0	0	0	2.1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	10	0	3.86	4.00	0.00	40.0	10.0	0.86	.250	3.86	3.86

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