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Sunday, February 23, 2020

List of baseball pitchers with 3,000 career strikeouts

 

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Chuck Andersen

Photo license: CC BY 2.0

 

This post is a list of baseball pitchers with at least 3,000 career strikeouts in the MLB as of February 23rd, 2020. There are 18 players listed below. The photo above is Nolan Ryan in 1990. Source: Wikipedia

 

1. Nolan Ryan - 5,714

2. Randy Johnson - 4,875

3. Roger Clemens - 4,672

4. Steve Carlton - 4,136

5. Bert Blyleven - 3,701

6. Tom Seaver - 3,640

7. Don Sutton - 3,574

8. Gaylord Perry - 3,534

9. Walter Johnson - 3,509

10. Greg Maddux - 3,371

11. Phil Niekro - 3,342

12. Fergie Jenkins - 3,192

13. Pedro Martinez - 3,154

14. Bob Gibson - 3,117

15. Curt Schilling - 3,116

16. CC Sabathia - 3,093

17. John Smoltz - 3,084

18. Justin Verlander - 3,006