who led the nl central in pitcher strikeouts in 2018

Jack Flaherty struck out the most hitters in the NL Central in 2018, with 182 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	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Jack Flaherty J. Flaherty	182	2018	STL	28	8	9	.471	28	3.34	0	0	0	151.0	108	56	59	20	59	11	0	3	615	6	10.85	3.52	3.08	1.19	29.6	9.6	1.11	.257	3.52	86	3.86	97	6.44	2
2	Jameson Taillon J. Taillon	179	2018	PIT	32	14	10	.583	32	3.20	2	1	0	191.0	179	68	69	20	46	6	0	4	785	2	8.43	2.17	3.89	0.94	22.8	5.9	1.18	.298	3.25	80	3.46	85	8.43	12.8
3	Luis Castillo L. Castillo	165	2018	CIN	31	10	12	.455	31	4.30	0	0	0	169.2	158	81	89	28	49	5	0	1	708	4	8.75	2.60	3.37	1.49	23.3	6.9	1.22	.282	4.72	105	4.31	103	8.38	-2.2
4	Kyle Hendricks K. Hendricks	161	2018	CHC	33	14	11	.560	33	3.44	0	0	0	199.0	184	76	82	22	44	9	0	4	812	0	7.28	1.99	3.66	0.99	19.8	5.4	1.15	.281	3.71	86	3.77	94	8.32	5.4
5	Jose Quintana J. Quintana	158	2018	CHC	32	13	11	.542	32	4.03	0	0	0	174.1	162	78	81	25	68	3	0	3	739	3	8.16	3.51	2.32	1.29	21.4	9.2	1.32	.282	4.18	101	4.43	110	8.36	-8.1
6	Jhoulys Chacin J. Chacin	156	2018	MIL	35	15	8	.652	35	3.50	0	0	0	192.2	153	75	83	18	71	11	0	3	796	5	7.29	3.32	2.20	0.84	19.6	8.9	1.16	.250	3.88	87	4.03	99	7.15	0.7
7	Jon Lester J. Lester	149	2018	CHC	32	18	6	.750	32	3.32	0	0	0	181.2	174	67	75	24	64	6	0	1	761	4	7.38	3.17	2.33	1.19	19.6	8.4	1.31	.290	3.72	83	4.39	109	8.62	-7.6
8	Miles Mikolas M. Mikolas	146	2018	STL	32	18	4	.818	32	2.83	1	1	0	200.2	186	63	70	16	29	7	0	4	808	2	6.55	1.30	5.03	0.72	18.1	3.6	1.07	.279	3.14	73	3.27	82	8.34	15.9
9	Josh Hader J. Hader	143	2018	MIL	55	6	1	.857	0	2.43	0	0	12	81.1	36	22	23	9	30	1	14	0	306	0	15.82	3.32	4.77	1.00	46.7	9.8	0.81	.220	2.55	60	2.22	55	3.98	16.6
10	Junior Guerra J. Guerra	136	2018	MIL	31	6	9	.400	26	4.09	0	0	0	141.0	143	64	74	19	55	4	1	0	611	11	8.68	3.51	2.47	1.21	22.3	9.0	1.40	.312	4.72	102	4.23	104	9.13	-2.7
11	Chase Anderson C. Anderson	128	2018	MIL	30	9	8	.529	30	3.93	0	0	0	158.0	131	69	71	30	57	7	0	0	644	1	7.29	3.25	2.25	1.71	19.9	8.9	1.19	.239	4.04	98	5.22	129	7.46	-20.3
12	Trevor Williams T. Williams	126	2018	PIT	31	14	10	.583	31	3.11	1	1	0	170.2	146	59	64	15	55	4	0	3	701	4	6.64	2.90	2.29	0.79	18.0	7.8	1.18	.261	3.38	78	3.86	95	7.70	3.8
13	Luke Weaver L. Weaver	121	2018	STL	30	7	11	.389	25	4.95	0	0	0	136.1	150	75	83	19	54	3	3	2	609	3	7.99	3.56	2.24	1.25	19.9	8.9	1.50	.318	5.48	128	4.45	112	9.90	-7.3
14	Carlos Martinez C. Martinez	117	2018	STL	33	8	6	.571	18	3.11	0	0	5	118.2	100	41	48	5	60	11	9	4	521	5	8.87	4.55	1.95	0.38	22.5	11.5	1.35	.290	3.64	80	3.53	89	7.58	6
15	Ivan Nova I. Nova	114	2018	PIT	29	9	9	.500	29	4.19	0	0	0	161.0	171	75	82	26	35	4	0	4	683	9	6.37	1.96	3.26	1.45	16.7	5.1	1.28	.288	4.58	105	4.56	112	9.56	-9
16	Matt Harvey M. Harvey	111	2018	CIN	24	7	7	.500	24	4.50	0	0	0	128.0	132	64	66	21	28	5	0	2	540	1	7.80	1.97	3.96	1.48	20.6	5.2	1.25	.296	4.64	110	4.33	103	9.28	-1.9
17	Tyler Mahle T. Mahle	110	2018	CIN	23	7	9	.438	23	4.98	0	0	0	112.0	125	62	68	22	53	3	0	7	507	1	8.84	4.26	2.08	1.77	21.7	10.5	1.59	.323	5.46	121	5.24	125	10.04	-12.7
18	Anthony DeSclafani A. DeSclafani	108	2018	CIN	21	7	8	.467	21	4.93	0	0	0	115.0	118	63	68	24	30	2	0	2	484	4	8.45	2.35	3.60	1.88	22.3	6.2	1.29	.294	5.32	120	4.82	115	9.23	-7.8
19	Sal Romano S. Romano	105	2018	CIN	39	8	11	.421	25	5.31	0	0	0	145.2	155	86	92	23	53	4	1	6	644	7	6.49	3.27	1.98	1.42	16.3	8.2	1.43	.288	5.68	129	4.94	118	9.58	-11.7
20	Joe Musgrove J. Musgrove	100	2018	PIT	19	6	9	.400	19	4.06	0	0	0	115.1	113	52	56	12	23	8	0	3	486	5	7.80	1.79	4.35	0.94	20.6	4.7	1.18	.294	4.37	102	3.58	88	8.82	6.2
21	Freddy Peralta F. Peralta	96	2018	MIL	16	6	4	.600	14	4.25	0	0	0	78.1	49	37	37	8	40	4	1	1	321	3	11.03	4.60	2.40	0.92	29.9	12.5	1.14	.237	4.25	106	3.72	92	5.63	3
22	John Gant J. Gant	95	2018	STL	26	7	6	.538	19	3.47	0	0	0	114.0	91	44	54	9	57	2	1	3	487	5	7.50	4.50	1.67	0.71	19.5	11.7	1.30	.253	4.26	90	4.07	102	7.18	-1.2
23	Jeremy Jeffress J. Jeffress	89	2018	MIL	73	8	1	.889	0	1.29	0	0	15	76.2	49	11	12	5	27	1	24	4	299	4	10.45	3.17	3.30	0.59	29.8	9.0	0.99	.249	1.41	32	2.78	68	5.75	10.9
24	Felipe Vazquez F. Vazquez	89	2018	PIT	70	4	2	.667	0	2.70	0	0	37	70.0	63	21	24	4	24	1	60	2	296	3	11.44	3.09	3.71	0.51	30.1	8.1	1.24	.331	3.09	68	2.43	60	8.10	12.7
25	Corey Knebel C. Knebel	88	2018	MIL	57	4	3	.571	0	3.58	0	0	16	55.1	38	22	23	7	22	4	29	0	223	0	14.31	3.58	4.00	1.14	39.5	9.9	1.08	.304	3.74	89	3.03	75	6.18	6.3

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