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1876 MLB Strikeouts / 9 by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Strikeouts per nine innings

The Louisville Grays led all of MLB in strikeouts / 9 in 1876, with 1.75, 0.11 ahead of the Hartford Dark Blues. The average across 8 MLB teams is 1.10.

Led all of MLB in 1876 Louisville Grays 69 games
1.75 Strikeouts / 9 0.11 clear of Hartford Dark Blues
# Team League G K/9
1 Louisville Grays NL 69 1.75
2 Hartford Dark Blues NL 69 1.64
3 St. Louis Brown Stockings NL 64 1.61
4 Boston Red Caps NL 70 1.10
MLB average 1.10
5 Cincinnati Reds NL 65 0.91
6 Chicago White Stockings NL 66 0.77
7 New York Mutuals NL 57 0.63
8 Philadelphia Athletics NL 60 0.36

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.