which pitcher has the most strikeouts this season for the kc

Cole Ragans has fanned the most hitters for the Royals this season, with 46 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	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	Cole Ragans C. Ragans	46	2025	KCR	6	1	1	.500	6	4.40	0	30.2	27	15	16	4	9	1	0	0	128	2	13.50	2.64	5.11	1.17	35.9	7.0	1.17	.338	4.70	106	2.74	67	7.92	4.5
2	Kris Bubic K. Bubic	40	2025	KCR	7	3	2	.600	7	1.98	0	41.0	33	9	11	2	13	2	0	1	169	0	8.78	2.85	3.08	0.44	23.7	7.7	1.12	.277	2.41	48	2.85	70	7.24	5.6
3	Seth Lugo S. Lugo	34	2025	KCR	7	3	3	.500	7	3.07	0	44.0	34	15	16	7	12	1	0	1	171	2	6.95	2.45	2.83	1.43	19.9	7.0	1.05	.231	3.27	74	4.48	110	6.95	-2
4	Michael Lorenzen M. Lorenzen	33	2025	KCR	7	3	3	.500	7	4.23	0	38.1	40	18	19	8	14	0	0	0	168	5	7.75	3.29	2.36	1.88	19.6	8.3	1.41	.283	4.46	102	5.16	126	9.39	-4.6
5	Michael Wacha M. Wacha	29	2025	KCR	7	1	4	.200	7	3.52	0	38.1	35	15	15	2	13	0	0	0	160	0	6.81	3.05	2.23	0.47	18.1	8.1	1.25	.284	3.52	85	3.25	80	8.22	3.5
6	Carlos Estévez C. Estévez	13	2025	KCR	14	1	0	1.000	0	2.40	9	15.0	8	4	5	0	9	2	11	3	64	1	7.80	5.40	1.44	0.00	20.3	14.1	1.13	.200	3.00	58	3.54	87	4.80	0.9
7	John Schreiber J. Schreiber	13	2025	KCR	14	1	1	.500	0	1.88	0	14.1	11	3	3	3	5	0	2	0	55	0	8.16	3.14	2.60	1.88	23.6	9.1	1.12	.235	1.88	46	5.02	123	6.91	-1.5
8	Lucas Erceg L. Erceg	10	2025	KCR	16	0	0		0	0.63	1	14.1	7	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	49	0	6.28	0.63	10.00	0.00	20.4	2.0	0.56	.189	0.63	15	2.09	51	4.40	3.2
9	Angel Zerpa A. Zerpa	10	2025	KCR	13	2	0	1.000	0	4.15	0	13.0	18	6	6	2	4	1	1	0	59	0	6.92	2.77	2.50	1.38	16.9	6.8	1.69	.381	4.15	100	4.68	115	12.46	-0.9
10	Chris Stratton C. Stratton	9	2025	KCR	9	0	0		0	8.25	0	12.0	22	11	13	2	6	0	5	0	64	0	6.75	4.50	1.50	1.50	14.1	9.4	2.33	.426	9.75	200	5.24	128	16.50	-1.5
11	Daniel Lynch IV D. Lynch IV	9	2025	KCR	14	3	0	1.000	0	1.10	1	16.1	10	2	2	1	6	1	6	0	63	0	4.96	3.31	1.50	0.55	14.3	9.5	0.98	.196	1.10	27	4.05	99	5.51	0.1
12	Hunter Harvey H. Harvey	7	2025	KCR	6	0	0		0	0.00	0	5.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	17	0	11.81	0.00		0.00	41.2	0.0	0.19	.100	0.00	0	0.44	11	1.69	2.2
13	Sam Long S. Long	6	2025	KCR	7	0	2	.000	0	12.86	0	7.0	12	10	12	2	5	0	3	1	37	3	7.71	6.43	1.20	2.57	16.2	13.5	2.43	.417	15.43	311	7.21	177	15.43	-2.4
14	Evan Sisk E. Sisk	5	2025	KCR	2	0	0		0	0.00	0	2.1	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	11	0	19.29	7.71	2.50	0.00	45.5	18.2	1.71	.500	0.00	0	1.35	33	7.71	0.7
15	Steven Cruz S. Cruz	5	2025	KCR	9	0	0		0	0.00	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	29	0	5.63	4.50	1.25	0.00	17.2	13.8	0.75	.100	0.00	0	3.32	81	2.25	0.7
16	Noah Cameron N. Cameron	3	2025	KCR	1	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	6.1	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	25	0	4.26	7.11	0.60	0.00	12.0	20.0	0.95	.059	0.00	0	4.49	110	1.42	-0.3
17	Taylor Clarke T. Clarke	2	2025	KCR	2	0	0		0	0.00	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	7	1	9.00	0.00		0.00	28.6	0.0	0.50	.200	0.00	0	1.07	26	4.50	0.7
18	Jonathan Bowlan J. Bowlan	1	2025	KCR	1	0	0		0	0.00	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	4.50	0.00		0.00	16.7	0.0	0.00	.000	0.00	0	2.07	51	0.00	0.4