most strikeouts as a rays relief pitcher from 2005 to 2010

Between the 2005 and 2010 seasons, Grant Balfour struck out the most batters by a Rays relief pitcher, with 234 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	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	Grant Balfour G. Balfour	234	203	14	7	.667	0	3.33	0	0	8	203.0	156	75	79	13	90	2	41	3	838	7	10.37	3.99	2.60	0.58	27.9	10.7	1.21	.287	3.50	6.92
2	J.P. Howell	171	133	13	6	.684	0	2.48	0	0	20	156.0	109	43	51	13	72	7	50	4	648	8	9.87	4.15	2.38	0.75	26.4	11.1	1.16	.249	2.94	6.29
3	Dan Wheeler D. Wheeler	170	228	11	20	.355	0	3.56	0	0	18	197.1	149	78	87	31	57	2	63	10	794	8	7.75	2.60	2.98	1.41	21.4	7.2	1.04	.221	3.97	6.80
4	Al Reyes A. Reyes	89	87	4	6	.400	0	4.75	0	0	26	83.1	70	44	47	15	31	3	58	3	350	2	9.61	3.35	2.87	1.62	25.4	8.9	1.21	.259	5.08	7.56
5	Shawn Camp S. Camp	89	125	7	7	.500	0	5.56	0	0	4	115.0	156	71	76	16	37	10	23	9	526	6	6.97	2.90	2.41	1.25	16.9	7.0	1.68	.374	5.95	12.21
6	Trever Miller T. Miller	79	129	4	2	.667	0	4.11	0	0	2	87.2	84	40	44	6	49	11	29	7	393	3	8.11	5.03	1.61	0.62	20.1	12.5	1.52	.315	4.52	8.62
7	Joaquin Benoit J. Benoit	75	63	1	2	.333	0	1.34	0	0	1	60.1	30	9	10	6	11	0	16	1	217	1	11.19	1.64	6.82	0.90	34.6	5.1	0.68	.192	1.49	4.48
8	Gary Glover G. Glover	73	96	7	7	.500	0	5.17	0	0	2	111.1	129	64	66	15	45	2	28	8	494	6	5.90	3.64	1.62	1.21	14.8	9.1	1.56	.318	5.34	10.43
9	Travis Harper T. Harper	72	82	6	6	.500	0	6.09	0	0	0	115.1	150	78	84	20	37	3	20	10	517	4	5.62	2.89	1.95	1.56	13.9	7.2	1.62	.338	6.55	11.71
10	Randy Choate R. Choate	68	146	5	3	.625	0	3.89	0	0	5	81.0	69	35	38	7	28	3	21	8	329	4	7.56	3.11	2.43	0.78	20.7	8.5	1.20	.278	4.22	7.67
11	Lance Cormier L. Cormier	66	113	7	6	.538	0	3.55	0	0	2	139.1	143	55	59	13	59	1	28	5	610	6	4.26	3.81	1.12	0.84	10.8	9.7	1.45	.276	3.81	9.24
12	Chad Orvella C. Orvella	66	69	4	10	.286	0	5.79	0	0	1	82.1	101	53	65	13	53	5	14	3	406	1	7.21	5.79	1.25	1.42	16.3	13.1	1.87	.327	7.11	11.04
13	Rafael Soriano R. Soriano	57	64	3	2	.600	0	1.73	0	0	45	62.1	36	12	14	4	14	1	56	2	237	0	8.23	2.02	4.07	0.58	24.1	5.9	0.80	.199	2.02	5.20
14	Ruddy Lugo R. Lugo	56	75	4	4	.500	0	4.42	0	0	0	95.2	92	47	50	6	50	5	28	2	424	4	5.27	4.70	1.12	0.56	13.2	11.8	1.48	.280	4.70	8.66
15	Danys Baez D. Baez	51	67	5	4	.556	0	2.86	0	0	41	72.1	66	23	27	7	30	2	64	0	308	0	6.35	3.73	1.70	0.87	16.6	9.7	1.33	.271	3.36	8.21
16	Andy Sonnanstine A. Sonnanstine	48	41	2	0	1.000	0	4.72	0	0	1	68.2	78	36	42	11	20	6	25	5	307	3	6.29	2.62	2.40	1.44	15.6	6.5	1.43	.302	5.50	10.22
17	Jason Hammel J. Hammel	47	45	3	2	.600	0	4.87	0	0	2	68.1	75	37	42	10	36	1	23	3	308	7	6.19	4.74	1.31	1.32	15.3	11.7	1.62	.304	5.53	9.88
18	Casey Fossum C. Fossum	46	41	4	4	.500	0	5.76	0	0	0	45.1	58	29	30	6	19	1	8	0	213	2	9.13	3.77	2.42	1.19	21.6	8.9	1.70	.369	5.96	11.51
19	Troy Percival T. Percival	45	64	2	2	.500	0	4.89	0	0	34	57.0	43	31	34	12	32	2	48	0	246	4	7.11	5.05	1.41	1.89	18.3	13.0	1.32	.200	5.37	6.79
20	Juan Salas J. Salas	42	47	1	1	.500	0	4.44	0	0	0	52.2	54	26	31	8	24	5	14	0	243	7	7.18	4.10	1.75	1.37	17.3	9.9	1.48	.280	5.30	9.23
21	Scott Dohmann S. Dohmann	38	43	5	0	1.000	0	4.18	0	0	0	47.1	47	22	23	5	25	0	14	2	202	0	7.23	4.75	1.52	0.95	18.8	12.4	1.52	.313	4.37	8.94
22	Brian Stokes B. Stokes	38	60	2	7	.222	0	7.48	0	0	0	65.0	95	54	54	11	27	4	22	1	310	1	5.26	3.74	1.41	1.52	12.3	8.7	1.88	.365	7.48	13.15
23	Joe Nelson J. Nelson	36	42	3	0	1.000	0	4.02	0	0	3	40.1	32	18	22	7	27	1	13	1	182	3	8.03	6.02	1.33	1.56	19.8	14.8	1.46	.225	4.91	7.14
24	Jon Switzer J. Switzer	36	63	2	4	.333	0	5.88	0	0	0	56.2	70	37	40	7	33	1	8	4	270	4	5.72	5.24	1.09	1.11	13.3	12.2	1.82	.326	6.35	11.12
25	Seth McClung S. McClung	36	41	4	4	.500	0	7.46	0	0	6	41.0	44	34	35	3	40	2	23	4	209	4	7.90	8.78	0.90	0.66	17.2	19.1	2.05	.320	7.68	9.66

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