which relief pitcher has the most strikeouts

Jake Bird has fanned the most hitters by a relief pitcher this season, with 56 strikeouts.

Interpreted as:

Which relief pitcher has the most strikeouts this regular 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	Jake Bird J. Bird	56	2025	COL	33	2	1	.667	0	2.06	0	0	0	43.2	36	10	11	2	16	2	3	1	178	3	11.54	3.30	3.50	0.41	31.5	9.0	1.19	.333	2.27	7.42
2	Griffin Jax G. Jax	54	2025	MIN	35	1	4	.200	0	4.18	0	0	0	32.1	33	15	16	4	8	0	2	1	138	0	15.03	2.23	6.75	1.11	39.1	5.8	1.27	.403	4.45	9.19
3	Josh Hader J. Hader	53	2025	HOU	32	5	1	.833	0	1.83	0	0	19	34.1	19	7	8	5	7	1	29	0	131	2	13.89	1.83	7.57	1.31	40.5	5.3	0.76	.215	2.10	4.98
4	Cade Smith C. Smith	53	2025	CLE	36	2	2	.500	0	2.36	0	0	3	34.1	27	9	11	0	13	2	5	1	145	1	13.89	3.41	4.08	0.00	36.6	9.0	1.17	.351	2.88	7.08
5	Brendon Little B. Little	52	2025	TOR	36	3	1	.750	0	2.10	0	0	0	34.1	23	8	13	1	20	1	2	0	144	3	13.63	5.24	2.60	0.26	36.1	13.9	1.25	.314	3.41	6.03
6	Fernando Cruz F. Cruz	50	2025	NYY	29	2	3	.400	0	3.26	0	0	2	30.1	19	11	13	3	14	2	4	0	123	3	14.84	4.15	3.57	0.89	40.7	11.4	1.09	.296	3.86	5.64
7	Garrett Whitlock G. Whitlock	49	2025	BOS	29	5	1	.833	0	3.60	0	0	1	40.0	31	16	17	2	19	3	5	1	169	3	11.03	4.27	2.58	0.45	29.0	11.2	1.25	.302	3.83	6.98
8	Randy Rodríguez R. Rodríguez	49	2025	SFG	33	3	1	.750	0	0.79	0	0	1	34.0	19	3	5	1	6	1	8	0	126	1	12.97	1.59	8.17	0.26	38.9	4.8	0.74	.261	1.32	5.03
9	Ronny Henriquez R. Henriquez	48	2025	MIA	33	3	1	.750	0	3.00	0	0	2	36.0	32	12	15	6	16	3	4	2	158	1	12.00	4.00	3.00	1.50	30.4	10.1	1.33	.306	3.75	8.00
10	Bryan Abreu B. Abreu	48	2025	HOU	35	1	3	.250	0	1.83	0	0	0	34.1	24	7	7	2	19	1	5	0	146	2	12.58	4.98	2.53	0.52	32.9	13.0	1.25	.289	1.83	6.29
11	Mason Miller M. Miller	47	2025	ATH	28	1	2	.333	0	5.02	0	0	14	28.2	19	16	17	4	15	1	23	1	119	3	14.76	4.71	3.13	1.26	39.5	12.6	1.19	.288	5.34	5.97
12	Jason Adam J. Adam	46	2025	SDP	39	5	3	.625	0	1.85	0	0	0	39.0	31	8	12	2	18	2	3	1	166	3	10.62	4.15	2.56	0.46	27.7	10.8	1.26	.296	2.77	7.15
13	Jeremiah Estrada J. Estrada	46	2025	SDP	37	2	4	.333	0	3.74	0	0	2	33.2	31	14	17	5	14	1	5	1	146	2	12.30	3.74	3.29	1.34	31.5	9.6	1.34	.325	4.54	8.29
14	Abner Uribe A. Uribe	45	2025	MIL	36	2	1	.667	0	1.98	0	0	1	36.1	27	8	10	3	15	4	2	2	148	4	11.15	3.72	3.00	0.74	30.4	10.1	1.16	.296	2.48	6.69
15	Edwin Díaz E. Díaz	45	2025	NYM	30	3	0	1.000	0	2.08	0	0	15	30.1	17	7	8	2	12	3	22	0	120	5	13.35	3.56	3.75	0.59	37.5	10.0	0.96	.259	2.37	5.04
16	Aroldis Chapman A. Chapman	45	2025	BOS	35	3	2	.600	0	1.41	0	0	14	32.0	16	5	6	2	9	0	20	0	121	1	12.66	2.53	5.00	0.56	37.2	7.4	0.78	.215	1.69	4.50
17	Jeff Hoffman J. Hoffman	44	2025	TOR	34	6	2	.750	0	5.29	0	0	17	32.1	26	19	20	8	10	1	29	1	133	1	12.25	2.78	4.40	2.23	33.1	7.5	1.11	.257	5.57	7.24
18	Steven Okert S. Okert	44	2025	HOU	30	1	2	.333	0	2.60	0	0	1	34.2	17	10	11	4	6	2	5	1	128	0	11.42	1.56	7.33	1.04	34.4	4.7	0.66	.181	2.86	4.41
19	Mark Leiter Jr. M. Leiter Jr.	44	2025	NYY	36	4	3	.571	0	3.77	0	0	2	31.0	35	13	15	3	9	1	6	0	137	3	12.77	2.61	4.89	0.87	32.1	6.6	1.42	.400	4.35	10.16
20	Alex Vesia A. Vesia	44	2025	LAD	37	2	0	1.000	0	3.09	0	0	3	32.0	24	11	11	7	10	2	6	1	128	2	12.38	2.81	4.40	1.97	34.4	7.8	1.06	.262	3.09	6.75
21	Ben Casparius B. Casparius	44	2025	LAD	22	6	1	.857	0	3.52	0	0	0	46.0	40	18	18	3	9	0	2	0	188	0	8.61	1.76	4.89	0.59	23.4	4.8	1.07	.280	3.52	7.83
22	Reid Detmers R. Detmers	43	2025	LAA	30	2	2	.500	0	4.64	0	0	2	33.0	32	17	17	2	17	0	5	3	143	0	11.73	4.64	2.53	0.55	30.1	11.9	1.48	.370	4.64	8.73
23	Emilio Pagán E. Pagán	43	2025	CIN	34	0	2	.000	0	3.18	0	0	18	34.0	18	12	14	6	11	1	27	0	133	0	11.38	2.91	3.91	1.59	32.3	8.3	0.85	.167	3.71	4.76
24	Bryan Baker B. Baker	42	2025	BAL	37	3	2	.600	0	2.88	0	0	2	34.1	26	11	13	6	8	0	7	0	131	0	11.01	2.10	5.25	1.57	32.1	6.1	0.99	.267	3.41	6.82
25	Gabe Speier G. Speier	40	2025	SEA	33	2	0	1.000	0	2.86	0	0	0	28.1	22	9	9	3	7	1	2	0	114	1	12.71	2.22	5.71	0.95	35.1	6.1	1.02	.302	2.86	6.99