[BradG223]

Expect this thread to be all of the place. I plan on jumping around a lot.

I'm taking a look at some pitcher strikeout numbers, and while this specific post might not be too interesting we can at least pay homage to a monster from the leagues early years.

What this chart is showing you is who struck the most people out in various at-bat intervals. I looped through every at-bat in league history, and kept rolling sum of pitcher strikeouts.
In row 1, we can see that Ryan Pruitt once struck out 18 batters in a 20 batter span. Because nobody has more K's than Pruitt in such a span, he is present on the leader board.

I was hoping there would be more names here, but Pruitt was just such a force that he blows the field away in any at-bat window <100 games. He managed to appear on the list from streaks in 2021, and 2022!

Something I will note, I think there is a discrepancy with relievers made in the inaugural draft, and those that come after. 8 of the top 9 leaders in K/9 among closers were drafted in 2020.