what reliever had most strikeouts in 2001

Octavio Dotel fanned the most hitters by a relief pitcher in 2001, with 128 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	H/9
1	Octavio Dotel O. Dotel	128	2001	HOU	57	6	3	.667	0	1.93	0	0	2	84.0	55	18	21	3	33	2	20	1	339	4	13.71	3.54	3.88	0.32	37.8	9.7	1.05	.301	2.25	5.89
2	Byung-Hyun Kim B. Kim	113	2001	ARI	78	5	6	.455	0	2.94	0	0	19	98.0	58	32	32	10	44	8	44	3	392	5	10.38	4.04	2.57	0.92	28.8	11.2	1.04	.221	2.94	5.33
3	Kyle Farnsworth K. Farnsworth	107	2001	CHC	76	4	6	.400	0	2.74	0	0	2	82.0	65	25	26	8	29	1	24	2	339	2	11.74	3.18	3.69	0.88	31.6	8.6	1.15	.294	2.85	7.13
4	Jay Witasick J. Witasick	106	2001	TOT	63	8	2	.800	0	3.30	0	0	1	79.0	78	29	41	8	33	6	17	4	352	4	12.08	3.76	3.21	0.91	30.1	9.4	1.41	.352	4.67	8.89
5	Armando Benitez A. Benitez	93	2001	NYM	73	6	4	.600	0	3.77	0	0	43	76.1	59	32	32	12	40	1	64	6	320	5	10.97	4.72	2.33	1.41	29.1	12.5	1.30	.270	3.77	6.96
6	Robb Nen R. Nen	93	2001	SFG	79	4	5	.444	0	3.01	0	0	45	77.2	58	26	28	6	22	1	71	6	312	2	10.78	2.55	4.23	0.70	29.8	7.1	1.03	.274	3.24	6.72
7	Mike Remlinger M. Remlinger	93	2001	ATL	74	3	3	.500	0	2.76	0	0	1	75.0	67	23	25	9	23	2	6	4	313	4	11.16	2.76	4.04	1.08	29.7	7.3	1.20	.312	3.00	8.04
8	Felix Rodriguez F. Rodriguez	91	2001	SFG	80	9	1	.900	0	1.68	0	0	0	80.1	53	15	16	5	27	1	13	2	314	1	10.20	3.02	3.37	0.56	29.0	8.6	1.00	.253	1.79	5.94
9	Todd Van Poppel T. Van Poppel	90	2001	CHC	59	4	1	.800	0	2.52	0	0	0	75.0	63	21	22	9	38	0	18	4	324	5	10.80	4.56	2.37	1.08	27.8	11.7	1.35	.289	2.64	7.56
10	Ugueth Urbina U. Urbina	89	2001	TOT	64	2	2	.500	0	3.64	0	0	24	66.2	58	27	29	9	24	0	53	1	278	2	12.02	3.24	3.71	1.21	32.0	8.6	1.23	.314	3.91	7.83
11	Jeff Nelson J. Nelson	88	2001	SEA	69	4	3	.571	0	2.76	0	0	4	65.1	30	20	21	3	44	6	16	1	273	2	12.12	6.06	2.00	0.41	32.2	16.1	1.13	.205	2.89	4.13
12	Scott Strickland S. Strickland	85	2001	MON	77	2	6	.250	0	3.21	0	0	9	81.1	67	29	36	9	41	4	31	5	351	4	9.41	4.54	2.07	1.00	24.2	11.7	1.33	.274	3.98	7.41
13	Steve Karsay S. Karsay	83	2001	TOT	74	3	5	.375	0	2.35	0	0	8	88.0	73	23	27	5	25	1	29	10	356	3	8.49	2.56	3.32	0.51	23.3	7.0	1.11	.281	2.76	7.47
14	Arthur Rhodes A. Rhodes	83	2001	SEA	71	8	0	1.000	0	1.72	0	0	3	68.0	46	13	14	5	12	1	16	0	258	3	10.99	1.59	6.92	0.66	32.2	4.7	0.85	.261	1.85	6.09
15	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	83	2001	NYY	71	4	6	.400	0	2.34	0	0	50	80.2	61	21	24	5	12	1	66	2	310	1	9.26	1.34	6.92	0.56	26.8	3.9	0.90	.268	2.68	6.81
16	Scott Sullivan S. Sullivan	82	2001	CIN	79	7	1	.875	0	3.31	0	0	0	103.1	94	38	44	10	36	8	16	8	437	0	7.14	3.14	2.28	0.87	18.8	8.2	1.26	.279	3.83	8.19
17	Chad Fox C. Fox	80	2001	MIL	65	5	2	.714	0	1.89	0	0	2	66.2	44	14	16	6	36	5	9	7	287	5	10.80	4.86	2.22	0.81	27.9	12.5	1.20	.238	2.16	5.94
18	Josias Manzanillo J. Manzanillo	80	2001	PIT	71	3	2	.600	0	3.39	0	0	2	79.2	60	30	32	4	26	5	25	3	329	4	9.04	2.94	3.08	0.45	24.3	7.9	1.08	.262	3.62	6.78
19	Billy Wagner B. Wagner	79	2001	HOU	64	2	5	.286	0	2.73	0	0	39	62.2	44	19	19	5	20	5	58	0	251	3	11.35	2.87	3.95	0.72	31.5	8.0	1.02	.275	2.73	6.32
20	John Rocker J. Rocker	79	2001	TOT	68	5	9	.357	0	4.32	0	0	23	66.2	58	32	36	4	41	5	48	4	300	11	10.67	5.53	1.93	0.54	26.3	13.7	1.49	.316	4.86	7.83
21	Scott Sauerbeck S. Sauerbeck	79	2001	PIT	70	2	2	.500	0	5.60	0	0	2	62.2	61	39	41	4	40	2	14	6	281	3	11.35	5.74	1.98	0.57	28.1	14.2	1.61	.365	5.89	8.76
22	Jeff Fassero J. Fassero	79	2001	CHC	82	4	4	.500	0	3.42	0	0	12	73.2	66	28	31	6	23	1	30	5	308	3	9.65	2.81	3.43	0.73	25.6	7.5	1.21	.302	3.79	8.06
23	Mike Stanton M. Stanton	78	2001	NYY	76	9	4	.692	0	2.58	0	0	0	80.1	80	23	25	4	29	4	16	9	342	3	8.74	3.25	2.69	0.45	22.8	8.5	1.36	.335	2.80	8.96
24	Matt Herges M. Herges	76	2001	LAD	75	9	8	.529	0	3.44	0	0	1	99.1	97	38	39	8	46	8	22	12	435	2	6.89	4.17	1.65	0.72	17.5	10.6	1.44	.300	3.53	8.79
25	Nelson Cruz N. Cruz	75	2001	HOU	66	3	3	.500	0	4.15	0	0	2	82.1	72	38	41	11	24	9	16	4	342	0	8.20	2.62	3.13	1.20	21.9	7.0	1.17	.274	4.48	7.87

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Sun 8/30	HOU	@	NYM	3:10 PM
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