I still don’t know if trading one of the top-5 prospects in baseball, Leo De Vries, for a reliever was the absolute BEST use of prospect capital from the San Diego Padres last season. But boy, has Mason Miller not let them down in the slightest. If anything, he’s been even MORE elite than usual.
Miller is, of course, off to an absurd start this season, with 11 strikeouts, 1 H, and 1 walk allowed through his first 4.1 (scoreless) innings pitched. But if you extend this window back to his first game with the Padres last season (Aug. 1), the streak looks downright absurd.
In 27.2 innings, Mason MIller has struck out 56(!) of the 98 batters he’s faced. That is a 57.1% strikeout rate. FIFTY-SEVEN-POINT-ONE PERCENT STRIKEOUT RATE.
Do you understand how nutso-bizarro that is?
© David Frerker-Imagn ImagesHow Good is Mason Miller’s K-Rate?
Let’s try to put it in perspective a bit.
The league average strikeout rate for a reliever is 23.6% this season. Even if that were DOUBLED, Miller would still have the league average reliever beat by 10 percentage points. The highest single-season strikeout rate for a reliever in the last 100 years was the 53.0% mark from Devin Williams in 2020 … which was the pandemic year and covered only 27.0 innings of work (so not much more than Miller’s current stretch). The only other guys to come anywhere close in the last 100 seasons: peak Aroldis Chapman in 2014 (52.5% over 54.0 IP), peak Craig Kimbrel in 2012 (50.2%), and peak Edwin Diaz in 2022 (50.2%). In other words, future Hall of Famers. No one else. And even those guys were 5-7 percentage points lower than Miller’s current streak.And while Miller’s 104+ MPH fastball gets most of the attention …
2025 PitchingNinja Award for Fastball of the Year. ?Winner: Mason Miller. 104.5 mph Dot. ? pic.twitter.com/iFj81Xufxu
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) November 6, 2025…his slider is actually the more valuable pitch in isolation.
Mason Miller, 102mph Fastball and 90mph Slider, Individual Pitches + Overlay pic.twitter.com/MqSXUI3sTo
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 14, 2026And that’s all without even mentioning his *checks notes* 96 MPH … changeup.
Mason Miller, 100.5mph Fastball (called strike) and 96.1 mph Changeup (swinging K), Individual Pitches + Overlay. "Swing decisions" are easier when you're sitting on your couch. t.co/nbIi6lhIO3 pic.twitter.com/VCO71VyR7q
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 4, 2026Miller did give up two earned runs to the Diamondbacks on August 5 last season. But in his 24 appearances since (25.1 IP), he has not allowed a SINGLE run to score, earned or otherwise. And he’s given up just five hits (.063 AVG) over that same stretch.
He is by far the best reliever in the game, and since he plays in the NL West, I can enjoy it without being too annoyed that he’s not on the Cubs.
So why did I write this post? Well, because Mason Miller is a real-life cheat code right now. And I appreciate watching elite baseball. Thought you might want to know.
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