List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders

Reggie Jackson, the all time leader in strikeouts by a batter.

In baseball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat (i.e. the batter fails to hit the ball in three successive pitches). It usually means the batter is out. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters, and is denoted by K.

Reggie Jackson holds the record for the most career strikeouts by a batter with 2,597. Jim Thome (2,548), Adam Dunn (2,379), Sammy Sosa (2,306), Alex Rodriguez (2,249) and Andres Galarraga (2,003) are the only other hitters to strikeout over 2,000 times.

Key

Rank	Rank amongst leaders in career strikeouts. A blank field indicates a tie.
Player (2016 Ks)	Number of strikeouts during the 2016 Major League Baseball season
K	Total career strikeouts
*	Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold	Denotes active player.

List

• Stats updated as of May 30, 2016

Rank	Player (2016 Ks)	K
1	Reggie Jackson *	2,597
2	Jim Thome	2,548
3	Adam Dunn	2,379
4	Sammy Sosa	2,306
5	Alex Rodriguez (29)	2,249
6	Andrés Galarraga	2,003
7	Jose Conseco	1,942
8	Willie Stargell *	1,936
9	Mike Cameron	1,901
10	Mike Schmidt *	1,883
11	Fred McGriff	1,882
12	Tony Pérez *	1,867
13	Bobby Abreu	1,840
	Derek Jeter	1,840
15	Dave Kingman	1,816
16	Manny Ramírez	1,813
17	Alfonso Soriano	1,803
18	Ryan Howard (52)	1,781
19	Ken Griffey Jr. *	1,779
20	Bobby Bonds	1,757
21	Craig Biggio *	1,753
22	Andruw Jones	1,748
	Dale Murphy	1,748
24	Carlos Delgado	1,745
25	Torii Hunter	1,741
26	Lou Brock *	1,730
27	Jim Edmonds	1,729
28	Mickey Mantle *	1,710
29	Harmon Killebrew *	1,699
30	Chili Davis	1,698
31	Dwight Evans	1,697
32	Rickey Henderson *	1,694
	David Ortiz (30)	1,694
34	Dave Winfield *	1,686
35	Carlos Beltran (41)	1,633
36	Derrek Lee	1,622
37	Reggie Sanders	1,614
38	Gary Gaetti	1,602
39	Mark McGwire	1,596
40	Carlos Peña	1,577
41	Jason Giambi	1,572
42	Lee May	1,570
43	Pat Burrell	1,564
44	Mark Reynolds (42)	1,561
45	Jeff Bagwell	1,558
46	Dick Allen	1,556
47	Ray Lankford	1,550
	Willie McCovey *	1,550
49	Barry Bonds	1,539
50	Adrian Beltre (20)	1,538

Rank	Player (2016 Ks)	K
51	Dave Parker	1,537
52	Frank Robinson *	1,531
53	Lance Parrish	1,527
54	Willie Mays *	1,526
55	Devon White	1,526
56	Jeff Kent	1,522
57	Eddie Murray *	1,516
58	Rick Monday	1,513
	Greg Vaughn	1,513
60	Curtis Granderson (51)	1,510
61	Andre Dawson *	1,509
62	Tony Phillips	1,499
63	Greg Luzinski	1,495
64	Eddie Mathews *	1,487
65	Iván Rodríguez	1,474
66	Frank Howard	1,460
67	Melvin Upton Jr. (48)	1,454
68	Jorge Posada	1,453
69	Jay Bell	1,443
70	Juan Samuel	1,442
71	Harold Baines	1,441
	Jack Clark	1,441
73	Miguel Cabrera (32)	1,432
74	Mo Vaughn	1,429
75	Jimmy Wynn	1,427
76	Jim Rice *	1,423
77	George Foster	1,419
78	George Scott	1,418
79	Royce Clayton	1,415
80	Ron Gant	1,411
81	Darrell Evans	1,410
	Scott Rolen	1,410
83	Rob Deer	1,409
	Chipper Jones	1,409
85	Adam LaRoche	1,407
86	Jay Buhner	1,406
87	Eric Davis	1,398
88	Frank Thomas *	1,397
89	Carl Yastrzemski *	1,393
90	José Hernández	1,391
	Paul Konerko	1,391
92	Joe Carter	1,387
93	Carlton Fisk *	1.386
94	Mark Teixeira (47)	1,384
95	Hank Aaron *	1,383
96	Jhonny Peralta (0)	1,381
97	Troy Glaus	1,377
98	Jeromy Burnitz	1,376
99	Raúl Ibañez	1,374
100	Nick Swisher (0)	1,373

External links

• Baseball-Reference.com