11 pitchers are tied for the best career K/9 by a starting pitcher, with 27.00 per nine innings. The first three are Dan Altavilla, Sam Moll and Dauri Moreta.

	NAME	K/9	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	Dan Altavilla D. Altavilla	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	135.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	54.00	0.50	0.00	16.7	33.3	15.00	1.000	135.00	81.00
2	Sam Moll S. Moll	27.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.00		0.00	75.0	0.0	1.00	1.000	0.00	9.00
3	Dauri Moreta D. Moreta	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	54.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		27.00	33.3	0.0	6.00	1.000	54.00	54.00
4	Sam Howard S. Howard	27.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		0.00	100.0	0.0	0.00		0.00	0.00
5	Jay Jackson J. Jackson	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	81.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	1	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	4	0	54.00	0.50	27.00	25.0	50.0	9.00		81.00	27.00
6	Austin Brice A. Brice	27.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	18.00	1.50	0.00	50.0	33.3	2.00	.000	0.00	0.00
7	Jacob Barnes J. Barnes	27.00	1	0	0		1	27.00	3	0	0	0	1.0	2	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	8	1	27.00	1.00	9.00	37.5	37.5	5.00	1.000	27.00	18.00
8	Jaime Schultz J. Schultz	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	54.00	2	0	0	0	0.2	2	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	6	1	27.00	1.00	13.50	33.3	33.3	6.00	1.000	54.00	27.00
9	Jonny Venters J. Venters	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	135.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	54.00	0.50	0.00	16.7	33.3	15.00	1.000	135.00	81.00
10	Pete Lovrich P. Lovrich	27.00	1	0	1	.000	1	108.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	7	0	27.00	1.00	0.00	14.3	14.3	18.00	1.000	108.00	135.00
11	Frank Wurm F. Wurm	27.00	1	0	0		1	108.00	1	0	0	0	0.1	1	4	4	0	5	0	0		7	0	135.00	0.20	0.00	14.3	71.4	18.00	1.000	108.00	27.00
12	Darwinzon Hernandez D. Hernandez	21.00	1	0	1	.000	1	9.00	7	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	4	0	5	0	0	0	18	0	15.00	1.40	0.00	38.9	27.8	2.67	.500	12.00	9.00
13	Phil Maton P. Maton	20.25	1	0	0		1	6.75	3	0	0	0	1.1	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	6.75	3.00	0.00	42.9	14.3	2.25	.667	6.75	13.50
14	Elmer Miller E. Miller	20.25	2	0	1	.000	2	33.75	3	0	0	0	1.1	2	5	5	0	6	0	0		12	0	40.50	0.50	0.00	25.0	50.0	6.00	.667	33.75	13.50
15	Fernando Cruz F. Cruz	18.24	7	0	1	.000	7	2.92	25	0	0	0	12.1	6	4	5	2	2	1	0	0	47	0	1.46	12.50	1.46	53.2	4.3	0.65	.235	3.65	4.38
16	Reed Garrett R. Garrett	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		0.00	66.7	0.0	0.00	.000	0.00	0.00
17	Ryan Zeferjahn R. Zeferjahn	18.00	1	0	0		1	9.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.00		9.00	50.0	0.0	1.00	.000	9.00	9.00
18	Nick Sandlin N. Sandlin	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	18.00	1.00	0.00	40.0	40.0	2.00	.000	0.00	0.00
19	Alex Vesia A. Vesia	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.00		0.00	50.0	0.0	1.00	.500	0.00	9.00
20	Justin Garza J. Garza	18.00	1	0	1	.000	1	27.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	4	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	7	0	0.00		18.00	28.6	0.0	4.00	.667	27.00	36.00
21	Josh Staumont J. Staumont	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		0.00	66.7	0.0	0.00	.000	0.00	0.00
22	Steven Wilson S. Wilson	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00		0.00	66.7	0.0	0.00	.000	0.00	0.00
23	Andrew Bellatti A. Bellatti	18.00	1	0	0		1	18.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	9.00	2.00	0.00	40.0	20.0	3.00	1.000	18.00	18.00
24	Conner Greene C. Greene	18.00	1	0	0		1	0.00	2	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	1	0.00		0.00	40.0	0.0	1.00	.500	0.00	9.00
25	Pierce Johnson P. Johnson	18.00	2	0	1	.000	2	4.50	4	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	10	0	4.50	4.00	4.50	40.0	10.0	1.50	.333	4.50	9.00

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