strikeouts per 9 leaders 2026 qualified relievers

Joe La Sorsa and Yunior Marte are tied for the best K/9 by a relief pitcher this season, with 27.00 per nine innings.

	NAME	K/9	SEASON	TM	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	Joe La Sorsa J. La Sorsa	27.00	2026	BOS	1	0	0		0	27.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.00		27.00	50.0	0.0	3.00		27.00	27.00
2	Yunior Marte Y. Marte	27.00	2026	CIN	1	0	0		0	108.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	3	4	4	0	1	1	0	1	6	0	27.00	1.00	0.00	16.7	16.7	12.00	1.000	108.00	81.00
3	José Buttó J. Buttó	22.50	2026	SFG	3	0	0		0	22.50	5	0	0	0	2.0	6	5	5	2	4	0	1	0	16	0	18.00	1.25	9.00	31.3	25.0	5.00	.800	22.50	27.00
4	Daniel Espino D. Espino	18.00	2026	CLE	6	0	0		0	4.50	12	0	0	0	6.0	5	3	3	1	4	0	2	0	27	0	6.00	3.00	1.50	44.4	14.8	1.50	.400	4.50	7.50
5	Carl Edwards Jr. C. Edwards Jr.	16.50	2026	NYM	2	0	0		0	1.50	11	0	0	0	6.0	3	1	1	1	4	0	1	0	25	0	6.00	2.75	1.50	44.0	16.0	1.17	.222	1.50	4.50
6	Mason Miller M. Miller	16.33	2026	SDP	55	4	2	.667	0	1.26	104	0	0	32	57.1	28	8	10	2	20	2	47	1	219	5	3.14	5.20	0.31	47.5	9.1	0.84	.286	1.57	4.40
7	Yaramil Hiraldo Y. Hiraldo	15.26	2026	BAL	7	1	0	1.000	0	5.87	13	0	0	0	7.2	7	5	5	2	6	1	1	0	37	0	7.04	2.17	2.35	35.1	16.2	1.70	.333	5.87	8.22
8	Luis Perales L. Perales	15.00	2026	WSH	2	0	0		0	21.00	5	0	0	0	3.0	8	7	7	1	4	0	0	0	21	1	12.00	1.25	3.00	23.8	19.0	4.00	.636	21.00	24.00
9	Manuel Rodríguez M. Rodríguez	15.00	2026	TBR	3	0	0		0	0.00	5	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	15	0	12.00	1.25	0.00	33.3	26.7	2.00	.333	0.00	6.00
10	Brycen Mautz B. Mautz	15.00	2026	STL	2	0	1	.000	0	9.00	10	0	0	0	6.0	9	6	6	1	3	0	1	0	29	3	4.50	3.33	1.50	34.5	10.3	2.00	.533	9.00	13.50
11	Erik Sabrowski E. Sabrowski	14.87	2026	CLE	51	5	2	.714	0	2.97	65	0	0	1	39.1	25	13	16	3	26	1	5	2	169	5	5.95	2.50	0.69	38.5	15.4	1.30	.297	3.66	5.72
12	Andrés Muñoz A. Muñoz	14.48	2026	SEA	53	5	5	.500	0	4.29	81	0	0	24	50.1	40	24	26	7	20	1	41	0	211	2	3.58	4.05	1.25	38.4	9.5	1.19	.324	4.65	7.15
13	Spencer Bivens S. Bivens	14.40	2026	SFG	4	0	0		0	14.40	8	0	0	0	5.0	11	8	10	1	4	0	1	0	30	2	7.20	2.00	1.80	26.7	13.3	3.00	.588	18.00	19.80
14	Drew Sommers D. Sommers	14.28	2026	DET	33	1	3	.250	0	3.10	46	0	0	0	29.0	24	10	12	2	12	1	2	2	121	1	3.72	3.83	0.62	38.0	9.9	1.24	.367	3.72	7.45
15	Mason Montgomery M. Montgomery	14.11	2026	PIT	53	6	3	.667	0	3.31	81	0	0	7	51.2	36	19	20	5	19	1	19	2	211	2	3.31	4.26	0.87	38.4	9.0	1.06	.295	3.48	6.27
16	Samy Natera Jr. S. Natera Jr.	13.99	2026	LAA	24	1	1	.500	0	2.60	43	0	0	3	27.2	16	8	8	1	11	1	5	0	110	3	3.58	3.91	0.33	39.1	10.0	0.98	.278	2.60	5.20
17	Brendon Little B. Little	13.94	2026	TOR	22	0	3	.000	0	8.27	32	0	0	0	20.2	26	19	21	5	20	0	3	5	101	0	8.71	1.60	2.18	31.7	19.8	2.23	.477	9.15	11.32
18	Jeff Hoffman J. Hoffman	13.66	2026	TOT	61	6	8	.429	0	3.97	86	0	0	5	56.2	56	25	32	4	25	6	22	4	257	4	3.97	3.44	0.64	33.5	9.7	1.43	.382	5.08	8.89
19	Luis Gil L. Gil	13.50	2026	NYY	1	0	0		0	4.50	3	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	10	0	4.50	3.00	0.00	30.0	10.0	1.00	.200	4.50	4.50
20	Ryan Feltner R. Feltner	13.50	2026	COL	1	0	1	.000	0	0.00	6	0	0	0	4.0	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	19	0	4.50	3.00	0.00	31.6	10.5	1.75	.455	2.25	11.25
21	Joe Boyle J. Boyle	13.50	2026	TBR	1	0	0		0	5.40	5	0	0	0	3.1	2	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	15	0	8.10	1.67	0.00	33.3	20.0	1.50	.286	5.40	5.40
22	Bradley Hanner B. Hanner	13.50	2026	NYY	3	0	0		0	6.75	6	0	0	0	4.0	6	3	3	2	0	0	2	0	18	0	0.00		4.50	33.3	0.0	1.50	.400	6.75	13.50
23	Slade Cecconi S. Cecconi	13.50	2026	CLE	2	0	0		0	16.88	4	0	0	0	2.2	5	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	15	1	6.75	2.00	3.38	26.7	13.3	2.63	.500	16.88	16.88
24	Will Warren W. Warren	13.50	2026	NYY	1	0	0		0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	13.50	1.00	0.00	25.0	25.0	3.00	.500	0.00	13.50
25	Miguel Ullola M. Ullola	13.50	2026	HOU	4	0	0		0	4.50	9	0	0	0	6.0	4	3	3	2	1	0	3	0	23	0	1.50	9.00	3.00	39.1	4.3	0.83	.182	4.50	6.00

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