which pitcher has the most rookie strikeouts all-time for the royals

Bob Johnson has struck out the most batters by a Royals rookie, with 206 strikeouts in 1970.

	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	Bob Johnson B. Johnson	206	1970	KCR	40	8	13	.381	26	3.07	10	1	4	214.0	178	73	82	18	82	11	7	4	894	6	8.66	3.45	2.51	0.76	23.0	9.2	1.21	.277	3.45	83	3.10	79	7.49	19.4
2	Steve Busby S. Busby	174	1973	KCR	37	16	15	.516	37	4.23	7	1	0	238.1	246	112	125	18	105	6	0	7	1,037	9	6.57	3.97	1.66	0.68	16.8	10.1	1.47	.311	4.72	108	3.48	89	9.29	11.6
3	Yordano Ventura Y. Ventura	159	2014	KCR	31	14	10	.583	30	3.20	0	0	0	183.0	168	65	70	14	69	5	0	1	782	11	7.82	3.39	2.30	0.69	20.3	8.8	1.30	.288	3.44	81	3.60	96	8.26	3
4	Bill Butler B. Butler	156	1969	KCR	34	9	10	.474	29	3.90	5	4	0	193.2	174	84	91	15	91	3	1	5	834	4	7.25	4.23	1.71	0.70	18.7	10.9	1.37	.279	4.23	108	3.36	89	8.09	8.9
5	Tom Gordon T. Gordon	153	1989	KCR	49	17	9	.654	16	3.64	1	1	1	163.0	122	66	67	10	86	1	16	4	677	12	8.45	4.75	1.78	0.55	22.6	12.7	1.28	.262	3.70	94	3.28	89	6.74	7.3
6	Dennis Leonard D. Leonard	146	1975	KCR	32	15	7	.682	30	3.77	8	0	0	212.1	212	89	98	18	90	9	1	4	916	4	6.19	3.81	1.62	0.76	15.9	9.8	1.42	.297	4.15	97	3.70	99	8.99	0.5
7	Kevin Appier K. Appier	127	1990	KCR	32	12	8	.600	24	2.76	3	3	0	185.2	179	57	67	13	54	6	1	2	784	6	6.16	2.62	2.35	0.63	16.2	6.9	1.25	.284	3.25	71	3.31	88	8.68	9.1
8	Glendon Rusch G. Rusch	116	1997	KCR	30	6	9	.400	27	5.50	1	0	0	170.1	206	104	111	28	52	7	0	0	758	0	6.13	2.75	2.23	1.48	15.3	6.9	1.51	.321	5.86	119	4.92	106	10.88	-5.3
9	Noah Cameron N. Cameron	114	2025	KCR	24	9	7	.563	24	2.99	0	0	0	138.1	109	46	46	18	43	3	0	1	556	3	7.42	2.80	2.65	1.17	20.5	7.7	1.10	.241	2.99	70	4.17	100	7.09	0
10	Kris Bubic K. Bubic	114	2021	KCR	29	6	7	.462	20	4.43	0	0	0	130.0	121	64	67	22	59	7	3	0	556	0	7.89	4.08	1.93	1.52	20.5	10.6	1.38	.280	4.64	99	5.13	121	8.38	-13.2
11	Mark Gubicza M. Gubicza	111	1984	KCR	29	10	14	.417	29	4.05	4	2	0	189.0	172	85	90	13	75	5	0	0	800	3	5.29	3.57	1.48	0.62	13.9	9.4	1.31	.267	4.29	101	3.75	95	8.19	3.7
12	Dick Drago D. Drago	108	1969	KCR	41	11	13	.458	26	3.77	10	2	1	200.2	190	84	95	19	65	2	10	6	848	0	4.84	2.92	1.66	0.85	12.7	7.7	1.27	.261	4.26	104	3.66	97	8.52	2.5
13	Jim Rooker J. Rooker	108	1969	KCR	28	4	16	.200	22	3.75	8	1	0	158.1	136	66	80	13	73	1	2	3	679	5	6.14	4.15	1.48	0.74	15.9	10.8	1.32	.254	4.55	104	3.61	96	7.73	2.8
14	Jim York J. York	103	1971	KCR	53	5	5	.500	0	2.89	0	0	3	93.1	70	30	32	7	44	3	21	7	399	4	9.93	4.24	2.34	0.68	25.8	11.0	1.22	.260	3.09	84	2.72	77	6.75	8.6
15	Zack Greinke Z. Greinke	100	2004	KCR	24	8	11	.421	24	3.97	0	0	0	145.0	143	64	64	26	26	8	0	3	599	1	6.21	1.61	3.85	1.61	16.7	4.3	1.17	.267	3.97	82	4.70	102	8.88	-1.2
16	Brad Keller B. Keller	96	2018	KCR	41	9	6	.600	20	3.08	1	0	0	140.1	133	48	50	7	50	2	2	1	583	8	6.16	3.21	1.92	0.45	16.5	8.6	1.30	.294	3.21	71	3.55	86	8.53	9.4
17	Dan Reichert D. Reichert	94	2000	KCR	44	8	10	.444	18	4.70	1	1	2	153.1	157	80	92	15	91	7	11	1	690	18	5.52	5.34	1.03	0.88	13.6	13.2	1.62	.294	5.40	90	5.09	102	9.22	-1.8
18	Scott Bankhead S. Bankhead	94	1986	KCR	24	8	9	.471	17	4.61	0	0	0	121.0	121	62	66	14	37	3	2	7	517	1	6.99	2.75	2.54	1.04	18.2	7.2	1.31	.290	4.91	109	3.70	91	9.00	4.9
19	Scott Barlow S. Barlow	92	2019	KCR	61	3	3	.500	0	4.22	0	0	1	70.1	64	33	33	6	37	3	7	3	310	5	11.77	4.73	2.49	0.77	29.7	11.9	1.44	.337	4.22	90	3.40	76	8.19	8.5
20	Cole Ragans C. Ragans	89	2023	KCR	12	5	2	.714	12	2.64	0	0	0	71.2	50	21	23	3	27	1	0	0	286	4	11.18	3.39	3.30	0.38	31.1	9.4	1.07	.283	2.89	59	2.48	58	6.28	14.3
21	Rich Gale R. Gale	88	1978	KCR	31	14	8	.636	30	3.09	9	3	0	192.1	171	66	78	10	100	3	0	3	821	5	4.12	4.68	0.88	0.47	10.7	12.2	1.41	.260	3.65	81	3.94	105	8.00	-4
22	Danny Duffy D. Duffy	87	2011	KCR	20	4	8	.333	20	5.64	0	0	0	105.1	119	66	66	15	51	5	0	1	474	4	7.43	4.36	1.71	1.28	18.4	10.8	1.61	.329	5.64	136	4.81	120	10.17	-9.7
23	Alec Marsh A. Marsh	85	2023	KCR	17	3	9	.250	8	5.69	0	0	0	74.1	77	47	50	16	39	9	1	0	342	1	10.29	4.72	2.18	1.94	24.9	11.4	1.56	.316	6.05	127	5.70	133	9.32	-11.7
24	Doug Bird D. Bird	83	1973	KCR	54	4	4	.500	0	2.99	0	0	20	102.1	81	34	37	10	30	2	41	7	414	1	7.30	2.64	2.77	0.88	20.0	7.2	1.08	.246	3.25	76	3.14	80	7.12	8.7
25	Glenn Sparkman G. Sparkman	81	2019	KCR	31	4	11	.267	23	6.02	1	1	0	136.0	164	91	96	30	41	6	2	1	606	6	5.36	2.71	1.98	1.99	13.4	6.8	1.51	.299	6.35	128	5.92	132	10.85	-22.4