what reliever had most strikeouts in 2014

Dellin Betances struck out the most hitters by a relief pitcher in 2014, with 135 strikeouts in his rookie season.

	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	Dellin Betances D. Betances	135	2014	NYY	70	5	0	1.000	0	1.40	0	0	1	90.0	46	14	15	4	24	4	8	1	341	2	13.50	2.40	5.63	0.40	39.6	7.0	0.78	.241	1.50	4.60
2	Wade Davis W. Davis	109	2014	KCR	71	9	2	.818	0	1.00	0	0	3	72.0	38	8	8	0	23	3	11	0	279	1	13.63	2.88	4.74	0.00	39.1	8.2	0.85	.264	1.00	4.75
3	Aroldis Chapman A. Chapman	106	2014	CIN	54	0	3	.000	0	2.00	0	0	36	54.0	21	12	12	1	24	2	44	0	202	4	17.67	4.00	4.42	0.17	52.5	11.9	0.83	.290	2.00	3.50
4	Brad Boxberger B. Boxberger	104	2014	TBR	63	5	2	.714	0	2.37	0	0	2	64.2	34	17	17	9	20	4	10	0	247	3	14.47	2.78	5.20	1.25	42.1	8.1	0.84	.227	2.37	4.73
5	Andrew Miller A. Miller	103	2014	TOT	73	5	5	.500	0	2.02	0	0	1	62.1	33	14	16	3	17	5	15	2	242	3	14.87	2.45	6.06	0.43	42.6	7.0	0.80	.263	2.31	4.76
6	Kenley Jansen K. Jansen	101	2014	LAD	68	2	3	.400	0	2.76	0	0	44	65.1	55	20	20	5	19	0	57	2	268	2	13.91	2.62	5.32	0.69	37.7	7.1	1.13	.350	2.76	7.58
7	Jake Diekman J. Diekman	100	2014	PHI	73	5	5	.500	0	3.80	0	0	0	71.0	66	30	36	4	35	3	19	5	313	7	12.68	4.44	2.86	0.51	31.9	11.2	1.42	.363	4.56	8.37
8	David Robertson D. Robertson	96	2014	NYY	63	4	5	.444	0	3.08	0	0	39	64.1	45	22	23	7	23	1	55	2	259	0	13.43	3.22	4.17	0.98	37.1	8.9	1.06	.288	3.22	6.30
9	Craig Kimbrel C. Kimbrel	95	2014	ATL	63	0	3	.000	0	1.61	0	0	47	61.2	30	11	13	2	26	2	54	0	244	6	13.86	3.79	3.65	0.29	38.9	10.7	0.91	.235	1.90	4.38
10	Cody Allen C. Allen	91	2014	CLE	76	6	4	.600	0	2.07	0	0	24	69.2	48	16	21	7	26	1	44	5	279	4	11.76	3.36	3.50	0.90	32.6	9.3	1.06	.266	2.71	6.20
11	Jake McGee J. McGee	90	2014	TBR	73	5	2	.714	0	1.89	0	0	19	71.1	48	15	15	2	16	2	31	1	274	1	11.36	2.02	5.63	0.25	32.8	5.8	0.90	.280	1.89	6.06
12	Greg Holland G. Holland	90	2014	KCR	65	1	3	.250	0	1.44	0	0	46	62.1	37	10	13	3	20	0	60	0	240	9	12.99	2.89	4.50	0.43	37.5	8.3	0.91	.268	1.88	5.34
13	Carlos Torres C. Torres	90	2014	NYM	72	8	6	.571	0	3.23	0	0	2	92.0	86	33	35	11	36	2	20	4	385	6	8.80	3.52	2.50	1.08	23.4	9.4	1.33	.305	3.42	8.41
14	Sean Doolittle S. Doolittle	89	2014	OAK	61	2	4	.333	0	2.73	0	0	22	62.2	38	19	19	5	8	0	40	1	236	0	12.78	1.15	11.13	0.72	37.7	3.4	0.73	.246	2.73	5.46
15	Trevor Rosenthal T. Rosenthal	87	2014	STL	72	2	6	.250	0	3.20	0	0	45	70.1	57	25	25	2	42	4	59	5	308	1	11.13	5.37	2.07	0.26	28.2	13.6	1.41	.318	3.20	7.29
16	Will Smith W. Smith	86	2014	MIL	78	1	3	.250	0	3.70	0	0	1	65.2	62	27	31	6	31	3	6	6	286	7	11.79	4.25	2.77	0.82	30.1	10.8	1.42	.350	4.25	8.50
17	Steve Cishek S. Cishek	84	2014	MIA	67	4	5	.444	0	3.17	0	0	39	65.1	58	23	26	3	21	1	55	2	275	1	11.57	2.89	4.00	0.41	30.5	7.6	1.21	.331	3.58	7.99
18	Tyler Clippard T. Clippard	82	2014	WSH	75	7	4	.636	0	2.18	0	0	1	70.1	47	17	22	5	23	1	6	1	278	0	10.49	2.94	3.57	0.64	29.5	8.3	1.00	.251	2.82	6.01
19	Antonio Bastardo A. Bastardo	81	2014	PHI	67	5	7	.417	0	3.94	0	0	0	64.0	43	28	31	4	34	2	17	4	271	5	11.39	4.78	2.38	0.56	29.9	12.5	1.20	.260	4.36	6.05
20	Danny Farquhar D. Farquhar	81	2014	SEA	66	3	1	.750	0	2.66	0	0	1	71.0	58	21	23	5	22	4	22	1	290	6	10.27	2.79	3.68	0.63	27.9	7.6	1.13	.298	2.92	7.35
21	Tony Watson T. Watson	81	2014	PIT	78	10	2	.833	0	1.63	0	0	2	77.1	64	14	16	5	15	6	3	0	305	0	9.43	1.75	5.40	0.58	26.6	4.9	1.02	.298	1.86	7.45
22	Koji Uehara K. Uehara	80	2014	BOS	64	6	5	.545	0	2.52	0	0	26	64.1	51	18	18	10	8	1	50	0	249	1	11.19	1.12	10.00	1.40	32.1	3.2	0.92	.273	2.52	7.13
23	Randall Delgado R. Delgado	78	2014	ARI	43	3	2	.600	0	4.40	0	0	0	61.1	46	30	32	5	28	3	6	2	261	5	11.45	4.11	2.79	0.73	29.9	10.7	1.21	.279	4.70	6.75
24	Adam Warren A. Warren	76	2014	NYY	69	3	6	.333	0	2.97	0	0	3	78.2	63	26	27	4	24	3	11	1	324	4	8.69	2.75	3.17	0.46	23.5	7.4	1.11	.272	3.09	7.21
25	Brett Cecil B. Cecil	76	2014	TOR	66	2	3	.400	0	2.70	0	0	5	53.1	46	16	16	2	27	1	17	4	234	1	12.83	4.56	2.81	0.34	32.5	11.5	1.37	.344	2.70	7.76

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