Gavin Williams leads trader consensus in the MLB Postseason strikeout leader market after posting 24 strikeouts across the Guardians’ ALDS series, including a franchise-record 12 in the winner-take-all Game 5. His regular-season totals of 248 Ks in 184.1 innings and elite K/9 rate position him ahead of the field early in October. Jacob Misiorowski, the regular-season leader with 252 Ks, has seen limited innings in Milwaukee’s deep playoff run amid bullpen dominance, while Tarik Skubal and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have contributed solid but lower postseason totals to date. Later rounds, deeper starts for Cleveland or other aces, and potential workload limits remain key variables that could shift implied probabilities.