pitchers with most strikeouts in a season since 2000 nl central

Since 2000, Kerry Wood has struck out the most batters in the NL Central in a season, with 266 strikeouts in 2003.

	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	Kerry Wood K. Wood	266	2003	CHC	32	14	11	.560	32	3.20	4	2	0	211.0	152	75	77	24	100	21	0	2	887	10	11.35	4.27	2.66	1.02	30.0	11.3	1.19	.269	3.28	75	3.70	85	6.48	15.8
2	Ben Sheets B. Sheets	264	2004	MIL	34	12	14	.462	34	2.70	5	0	0	237.0	201	71	85	25	32	4	0	1	937	8	10.03	1.22	8.25	0.95	28.2	3.4	0.98	.288	3.23	63	2.64	59	7.63	47.2
3	Mark Prior M. Prior	245	2003	CHC	30	18	6	.750	30	2.43	3	1	0	211.1	183	57	67	15	50	9	0	4	863	9	10.43	2.13	4.90	0.64	28.4	5.8	1.10	.309	2.85	57	2.47	56	7.79	44.5
4	Corbin Burnes C. Burnes	243	2022	MIL	33	12	8	.600	33	2.94	0	0	0	202.0	144	66	73	23	51	13	0	0	797	10	10.83	2.27	4.76	1.02	30.5	6.4	0.97	.259	3.25	73	3.13	78	6.42	20
5	Johnny Cueto J. Cueto	242	2014	CIN	34	20	9	.690	34	2.25	4	2	0	243.2	169	61	69	22	65	15	0	2	961	1	8.94	2.40	3.72	0.81	25.2	6.8	0.96	.238	2.55	61	3.30	87	6.24	13.4
6	Oliver Perez O. Perez	239	2004	PIT	30	12	10	.545	30	2.98	2	1	0	196.0	145	65	71	22	81	9	0	2	805	2	10.97	3.72	2.95	1.01	29.7	10.1	1.15	.271	3.26	69	3.44	79	6.66	20.1
7	Jake Arrieta J. Arrieta	236	2015	CHC	33	22	6	.786	33	1.77	4	3	0	229.0	150	45	52	10	48	6	0	2	870	6	9.28	1.89	4.92	0.39	27.1	5.5	0.86	.246	2.04	45	2.34	60	5.90	39
8	Corbin Burnes C. Burnes	234	2021	MIL	28	11	5	.688	28	2.43	0	0	0	167.0	123	45	47	7	34	6	0	0	657	5	12.61	1.83	6.88	0.38	35.6	5.2	0.94	.309	2.53	58	1.62	38	6.63	48.9
9	Jack Flaherty J. Flaherty	231	2019	STL	33	11	8	.579	33	2.75	0	0	0	196.1	135	60	62	25	55	7	0	2	772	6	10.59	2.52	4.20	1.15	29.9	7.1	0.97	.242	2.84	66	3.45	80	6.19	18.6
10	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	229	2019	CHC	31	6	8	.429	31	3.98	0	0	0	178.2	140	79	82	33	56	11	0	1	731	11	11.54	2.82	4.09	1.66	31.3	7.7	1.10	.266	4.13	90	4.17	94	7.05	5.1
11	Luis Castillo L. Castillo	226	2019	CIN	32	15	8	.652	32	3.40	0	0	0	190.2	139	72	76	22	79	7	0	0	781	5	10.67	3.73	2.86	1.04	28.9	10.1	1.14	.262	3.59	74	3.69	80	6.56	19
12	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	219	2013	STL	34	19	9	.679	34	2.94	5	2	0	241.2	223	79	83	15	35	6	0	2	956	5	8.16	1.30	6.26	0.56	22.9	3.7	1.07	.305	3.09	80	2.55	68	8.30	31.8
13	Aaron Harang A. Harang	218	2007	CIN	34	16	6	.727	34	3.73	2	1	0	231.2	213	96	100	28	52	8	0	3	948	12	8.47	2.02	4.19	1.09	23.0	5.5	1.14	.288	3.88	81	3.69	79	8.27	24.4
14	Roger Clemens R. Clemens	218	2004	HOU	33	18	4	.818	33	2.98	0	0	0	214.1	169	71	76	15	79	6	0	5	878	5	9.15	3.32	2.76	0.63	24.8	9.0	1.16	.275	3.19	69	3.11	70	7.10	31.7
15	Carlos Martinez C. Martinez	217	2017	STL	32	12	11	.522	32	3.64	2	2	0	205.0	179	83	93	27	71	8	0	3	858	9	9.53	3.12	3.06	1.19	25.3	8.3	1.22	.284	4.08	88	3.90	92	7.86	7.5
16	Kerry Wood K. Wood	217	2002	CHC	33	12	11	.522	33	3.66	4	1	0	213.2	169	87	92	22	97	16	0	5	895	8	9.14	4.09	2.24	0.93	24.2	10.8	1.24	.271	3.88	91	3.85	92	7.12	8.2
17	Kerry Wood K. Wood	217	2001	CHC	28	12	6	.667	28	3.36	1	1	0	174.1	127	65	70	16	92	10	0	3	740	9	11.20	4.75	2.36	0.83	29.3	12.4	1.26	.274	3.61	79	3.50	80	6.56	17.4
18	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	216	2025	PIT	32	10	10	.500	32	1.97	1	0	0	187.2	136	41	45	11	42	6	0	0	733	2	10.36	2.01	5.14	0.53	29.5	5.7	0.95	.273	2.16	46	2.36	57	6.52	37
19	Aaron Harang A. Harang	216	2006	CIN	36	16	11	.593	35	3.76	6	2	0	234.1	242	98	109	28	56	8	0	8	993	6	8.30	2.15	3.86	1.08	21.8	5.6	1.27	.312	4.19	82	3.67	79	9.29	25.4
20	Matt Clement M. Clement	215	2002	CHC	32	12	11	.522	32	3.60	3	2	0	205.0	162	82	84	18	85	6	0	7	858	7	9.44	3.73	2.53	0.79	25.1	9.9	1.20	.270	3.69	89	3.33	79	7.11	19.6
21	Jeff Samardzija J. Samardzija	214	2013	CHC	33	8	13	.381	33	4.34	2	1	0	213.2	210	103	109	25	78	8	0	3	914	11	9.01	3.29	2.74	1.05	23.4	8.5	1.35	.314	4.59	116	3.77	99	8.85	0.8
22	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	213	2010	STL	33	20	11	.645	33	2.42	5	2	0	230.1	186	62	68	15	56	4	0	2	910	2	8.32	2.19	3.80	0.59	23.4	6.2	1.05	.275	2.66	62	2.85	73	7.27	27.5
23	Chris Carpenter C. Carpenter	213	2005	STL	33	21	5	.808	33	2.83	7	4	0	241.2	204	76	82	18	51	3	0	0	953	5	7.93	1.90	4.18	0.67	22.4	5.4	1.06	.278	3.05	68	2.89	69	7.60	34.8
24	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	212	2009	STL	34	19	8	.704	34	2.63	1	0	0	233.0	216	68	75	17	66	3	0	1	970	7	8.19	2.55	3.21	0.66	21.9	6.8	1.21	.296	2.90	65	3.10	76	8.34	26.3
25	Brandon Woodruff B. Woodruff	211	2021	MIL	30	9	10	.474	30	2.56	0	0	0	179.1	130	51	54	18	43	7	0	0	708	2	10.59	2.16	4.91	0.90	29.8	6.1	0.96	.261	2.71	61	2.95	69	6.52	26.4

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