who has the highest strikeouts per 9 innings in the mlb history minimum 10 innings pitched

Rafael Martin has the highest career K/9 when pitching at least 10 innings, with 16.88 per nine innings.

	NAME	K/9	IP	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Rafael Martin R. Martin	16.88	16.0	21	2	0	1.000	0	4.50	30	0	0	0	12	8	10	4	6	1	7	0	68	0	3.38	5.00	2.25	44.1	8.8	1.13	.296	5.63	113	3.94	102	6.75	-0.1
2	Daniel Espino D. Espino	14.67	15.1	14	0	0		3	4.11	25	0	0	0	12	7	7	3	7	0	3	0	65	0	4.11	3.57	1.76	38.5	10.8	1.24	.300	4.11	99	3.75	92	7.04	0.5
3	Mason Miller M. Miller	14.67	230.0	191	8	9	.471	6	2.47	375	0	0	88	125	63	73	16	91	7	138	6	894	14	3.56	4.12	0.63	41.9	10.2	0.94	.269	2.86	60	2.07	50	4.89	53.5
4	Edwin Díaz E. Díaz	14.50	538.0	541	30	38	.441	0	3.03	867	0	0	260	382	181	194	57	193	43	409	11	2,201	34	3.23	4.49	0.95	39.4	8.8	1.07	.312	3.25	75	2.62	62	6.39	93.1
5	Aroldis Chapman A. Chapman	14.45	873.0	916	63	52	.548	0	2.48	1,402	0	0	402	510	241	268	57	431	34	607	7	3,554	90	4.44	3.25	0.59	39.4	12.1	1.08	.278	2.76	60	2.36	57	5.26	171.1
6	Dellin Betances D. Betances	14.45	394.1	374	21	23	.477	1	2.53	633	0	0	36	240	111	124	26	183	28	86	5	1,613	28	4.18	3.46	0.59	39.2	11.3	1.07	.288	2.83	61	2.39	56	5.48	78.8
7	Josh Hader J. Hader	14.28	557.0	513	38	33	.535	0	2.50	884	0	0	253	301	155	170	66	213	24	358	6	2,186	20	3.44	4.15	1.07	40.4	9.7	0.92	.235	2.75	61	2.80	67	4.86	86.8
8	Darwinzon Hernandez D. Hernandez	14.03	85.1	91	3	4	.429	1	5.06	133	0	0	0	75	48	54	10	73	11	9	1	412	8	7.70	1.82	1.05	32.3	17.7	1.73	.351	5.70	113	4.53	106	7.91	-1.3
9	Michel Otañez M. Otañez	13.96	39.1	42	1	0	1.000	0	4.81	61	0	0	1	34	21	23	4	25	4	7	0	179	6	5.72	2.44	0.92	34.1	14.0	1.50	.353	5.26	119	3.59	87	7.78	2.2
10	Félix Bautista F. Bautista	13.86	163.0	158	13	7	.650	0	2.15	251	0	0	67	88	39	45	15	73	3	105	1	642	10	4.03	3.44	0.83	39.1	11.4	0.99	.243	2.48	54	2.68	66	4.86	25.2
11	Devin Williams D. Williams	13.75	338.1	352	34	18	.654	0	2.69	517	0	0	102	217	101	125	23	158	15	156	5	1,395	18	4.20	3.27	0.61	37.1	11.3	1.11	.284	3.33	65	2.52	59	5.77	64.5
12	Craig Kimbrel C. Kimbrel	13.71	867.2	897	57	53	.518	0	2.69	1,322	0	0	441	532	259	290	79	368	43	674	13	3,502	74	3.82	3.59	0.82	37.7	10.5	1.04	.268	3.01	65	2.68	66	5.52	132.4
13	Drew Sommers D. Sommers	13.71	42.2	47	2	5	.286	0	4.64	65	0	0	0	42	22	26	5	17	4	5	2	188	1	3.59	3.82	1.05	34.6	9.0	1.38	.381	5.48	111	3.05	73	8.86	5.3
14	Angel Perdomo A. Perdomo	13.67	52.0	56	4	2	.667	0	5.54	79	0	0	0	38	32	35	7	37	7	17	6	231	1	6.40	2.14	1.21	34.2	16.0	1.44	.307	6.06	127	4.46	103	6.58	-0.6
15	Erik Sabrowski E. Sabrowski	13.65	90.1	101	5	3	.625	0	1.99	137	0	0	2	46	20	25	5	56	5	12	2	371	6	5.58	2.45	0.50	36.9	15.1	1.13	.244	2.49	48	2.83	69	4.58	12.6
16	Samy Natera Jr. S. Natera Jr.	13.64	31.2	28	1	2	.333	0	3.13	48	0	0	3	22	11	11	1	13	2	8	0	131	3	3.69	3.69	0.28	36.6	9.9	1.11	.313	3.13	76	1.89	46	6.25	7.8
17	Brian Moran B. Moran	13.50	11.1	18	2	0	1.000	0	7.94	17	0	0	0	15	10	10	3	9	2	2	2	60	0	7.15	1.89	2.38	28.3	15.0	2.12	.414	7.94	189	6.54	154	11.91	-2.8
18	Brad Wieck B. Wieck	13.42	59.2	65	2	2	.500	0	3.77	89	0	0	0	42	25	26	10	24	3	10	0	248	1	3.62	3.71	1.51	35.9	9.7	1.11	.262	3.92	89	3.74	86	6.34	3.7
19	James Karinchak J. Karinchak	13.40	175.1	183	12	11	.522	0	3.03	261	0	0	15	102	59	66	19	103	6	50	2	734	17	5.29	2.53	0.98	35.6	14.0	1.17	.241	3.39	72	3.47	83	5.24	13.8
20	Mason Montgomery M. Montgomery	13.39	124.1	136	7	7	.500	5	3.84	185	0	0	19	100	53	57	12	58	2	43	2	524	3	4.20	3.19	0.87	35.3	11.1	1.27	.330	4.13	91	2.84	68	7.24	18.8
21	Josh James J. James	13.33	106.2	73	8	1	.889	6	4.64	158	0	0	1	80	55	57	18	61	8	24	0	461	10	5.15	2.59	1.52	34.3	13.2	1.32	.287	4.81	105	4.36	99	6.75	0.5
22	Fernando Cruz F. Cruz	13.21	250.0	251	11	21	.344	7	4.03	367	0	0	4	189	112	122	28	128	9	35	4	1,065	23	4.61	2.87	1.01	34.5	12.0	1.27	.302	4.39	93	3.32	77	6.80	27.5
23	Hagen Smith H. Smith	13.18	28.0	18	3	3	.500	1	1.29	41	0	0	0	11	4	5	1	16	0	1	0	110	2	5.14	2.56	0.32	37.3	14.5	0.96	.192	1.61	31	2.34	56	3.54	5.7
24	Nick Burdi N. Burdi	13.05	30.1	35	3	2	.600	0	5.34	44	0	0	1	29	18	19	3	21	2	12	0	141	6	6.23	2.10	0.89	31.2	14.9	1.65	.366	5.64	126	3.84	91	8.60	1.5
25	Dillon Maples D. Maples	13.01	54.2	59	3	0	1.000	0	5.10	79	0	0	0	35	31	33	6	50	14	16	0	258	8	8.23	1.58	0.99	30.6	19.4	1.55	.266	5.43	121	5.22	123	5.76	-6

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Nationals	77	85	.475	17.0
Mets	74	88	.457	20.0
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Cubs - w	89	73	.549	14.0
Pirates	82	80	.506	21.0
Cardinals	77	85	.475	26.0
Reds	75	87	.463	28.0
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Dodgers - y	100	62	.617
Padres - w	91	71	.562	9.0
Diamondbacks	86	76	.531	14.0
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