who led the nl in pitching strikeouts year by year 2000 to 2023

Between the 2000 and 2023 seasons, Randy Johnson fanned the most batters in the NL in a season, with 372 strikeouts in 2001.

	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	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	372	2001	ARI	35	21	6	.778	34	2.49	3	2	0	249.2	181	69	74	19	71	18	1	2	994	8	13.41	2.56	5.24	0.68	37.4	7.1	1.01	.315	2.67	55	2.12	48	6.52	63.9
2	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	347	2000	ARI	35	19	7	.731	35	2.64	8	3	0	248.2	202	73	89	23	76	6	0	1	1,001	5	12.56	2.75	4.57	0.83	34.7	7.6	1.12	.326	3.22	56	2.53	53	7.31	61.1
3	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	334	2002	ARI	35	24	5	.828	35	2.32	8	4	0	260.0	197	67	78	26	71	13	0	1	1,035	3	11.56	2.46	4.70	0.90	32.3	6.9	1.03	.289	2.70	54	2.65	61	6.82	47
4	Curt Schilling C. Schilling	316	2002	ARI	36	23	7	.767	35	3.23	5	1	0	259.1	218	93	95	29	33	3	0	1	1,017	6	10.97	1.15	9.58	1.01	31.1	3.2	0.97	.297	3.30	75	2.39	55	7.57	54.3
5	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	301	2015	LAD	33	16	7	.696	33	2.13	4	3	0	232.2	163	55	62	15	42	5	0	1	890	9	11.64	1.62	7.17	0.58	33.8	4.7	0.88	.281	2.40	57	1.98	52	6.31	47.7
6	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	300	2018	WSH	33	18	7	.720	33	2.53	2	1	0	220.2	150	62	66	23	51	12	0	4	866	4	12.24	2.08	5.88	0.94	34.6	5.9	0.91	.265	2.69	62	2.65	64	6.12	36.1
7	Curt Schilling C. Schilling	293	2001	ARI	35	22	6	.786	35	2.98	6	1	0	256.2	237	85	86	37	39	1	0	0	1,021	4	10.27	1.37	7.51	1.30	28.7	3.8	1.08	.307	3.02	66	3.10	70	8.31	38
8	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	290	2004	ARI	35	16	14	.533	35	2.60	4	2	0	245.2	177	71	88	18	44	10	0	1	964	3	10.62	1.61	6.59	0.66	30.1	4.6	0.90	.264	3.22	57	2.29	51	6.48	59.7
9	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	284	2016	WSH	34	20	7	.741	34	2.96	1	0	0	228.1	165	75	77	31	56	6	0	2	902	2	11.19	2.21	5.07	1.22	31.5	6.2	0.97	.255	3.04	70	3.23	78	6.50	22.7
10	Spencer Strider S. Strider	281	2023	ATL	32	19	5	.792	32	3.86	0	0	0	186.2	146	80	85	22	58	9	0	1	763	6	13.55	2.80	4.84	1.06	36.8	7.6	1.09	.316	4.10	87	2.85	66	7.04	30.3
11	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	276	2015	WSH	33	14	12	.538	33	2.79	4	3	0	228.2	176	71	74	27	34	5	0	2	899	10	10.86	1.34	8.12	1.06	30.7	3.8	0.92	.268	2.91	71	2.76	72	6.93	27.6
12	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	269	2018	NYM	32	10	9	.526	32	1.70	1	0	0	217.0	152	41	48	10	46	5	0	3	835	2	11.16	1.91	5.85	0.41	32.2	5.5	0.91	.281	1.99	44	1.98	50	6.30	49
13	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	268	2017	WSH	31	16	6	.727	31	2.51	2	0	0	200.2	126	56	62	22	55	11	0	2	780	4	12.02	2.47	4.87	0.99	34.4	7.1	0.90	.245	2.78	57	2.89	66	5.65	33.2
14	Kerry Wood K. Wood	266	2003	CHC	32	14	11	.560	32	3.20	4	2	0	211.0	152	75	77	24	100	21	0	2	887	10	11.35	4.27	2.66	1.02	30.0	11.3	1.19	.269	3.28	75	3.70	85	6.48	15.8
15	Tim Lincecum T. Lincecum	265	2008	SFG	34	18	5	.783	33	2.62	2	1	0	227.0	182	66	72	11	84	6	0	1	928	17	10.51	3.33	3.15	0.44	28.6	9.1	1.17	.304	2.85	61	2.61	62	7.22	41.5
16	Ben Sheets B. Sheets	264	2004	MIL	34	12	14	.462	34	2.70	5	0	0	237.0	201	71	85	25	32	4	0	1	937	8	10.03	1.22	8.25	0.95	28.2	3.4	0.98	.288	3.23	63	2.64	59	7.63	47.2
17	Tim Lincecum T. Lincecum	261	2009	SFG	32	15	7	.682	32	2.48	4	2	0	225.1	168	62	69	10	68	6	0	2	905	11	10.42	2.72	3.84	0.40	28.8	7.5	1.05	.282	2.76	60	2.33	57	6.71	45.4
18	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	255	2019	NYM	32	11	8	.579	32	2.43	0	0	0	204.0	154	55	59	19	44	7	0	1	804	2	11.25	1.94	5.80	0.84	31.7	5.5	0.97	.282	2.60	60	2.66	62	6.79	37.8
19	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	253	2016	MIA	29	16	8	.667	29	2.86	0	0	0	182.1	149	58	63	13	55	6	0	6	737	9	12.49	2.71	4.60	0.64	34.3	7.5	1.12	.332	3.11	72	2.29	57	7.35	35.4
20	Stephen Strasburg S. Strasburg	251	2019	WSH	33	18	6	.750	33	3.32	0	0	0	209.0	161	77	79	24	56	10	0	4	841	8	10.81	2.41	4.48	1.03	29.8	6.7	1.04	.274	3.40	75	3.24	73	6.93	28.3
21	Madison Bumgarner M. Bumgarner	251	2016	SFG	34	15	9	.625	34	2.74	4	1	0	226.2	179	69	79	26	54	8	0	0	912	4	9.97	2.14	4.65	1.03	27.5	5.9	1.03	.267	3.14	68	3.24	83	7.11	17.6
22	Jason Schmidt J. Schmidt	251	2004	SFG	32	18	7	.720	32	3.20	4	3	0	225.0	165	80	84	18	77	3	0	3	907	7	10.04	3.08	3.26	0.72	27.7	8.5	1.08	.263	3.36	75	2.92	69	6.60	33.7
23	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	248	2011	LAD	33	21	5	.808	33	2.28	5	2	0	233.1	174	59	66	15	54	3	0	2	912	5	9.57	2.08	4.59	0.58	27.2	5.9	0.98	.269	2.55	63	2.46	65	6.71	35.1
24	Zack Wheeler Z. Wheeler	247	2021	PHI	32	14	10	.583	32	2.78	3	2	0	213.1	169	66	72	16	46	8	0	1	849	6	10.42	1.94	5.37	0.68	29.1	5.4	1.01	.288	3.04	66	2.58	60	7.13	40.7
25	Patrick Corbin P. Corbin	246	2018	ARI	33	11	7	.611	33	3.15	1	1	0	200.0	162	70	70	15	48	5	0	3	800	8	11.07	2.16	5.13	0.68	30.8	6.0	1.05	.302	3.15	78	2.47	62	7.29	34.2