Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : The Quality Start and its creator

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	53	36	.596	C1
2	Philadelphia	48	42	.533	E1
3T	Arizona	44	45	.494	W1
3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	44	45	.494	W1
5	St. Louis	50	40	.556	C2
6	Milwaukee	49	40	.551	C3
7	Florida	46	43	.517	E2
8	New York Mets	45	44	.506	E3
9	Cincinnati	43	47	.478	C4
10	Atlanta	42	48	.467	E4
11	Pittsburgh	41	47	.466	C5
12	Houston	41	49	.456	C6
13	San Francisco	39	50	.438	W3
14	Colorado	38	52	.422	W4
15	San Diego	35	55	.389	W5
16	Washington	34	56	.378	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Tampa Bay	55	33	.625	E1
2	Los Angeles Angels	54	35	.607	W1
3	Chicago White Sox	51	37	.58	C1
4	Boston	53	39	.576	E2
5	Minnesota	50	39	.562	C2
6	Oakland	48	41	.539	W2
7	New York Yankees	47	42	.528	E3
8	Texas	46	44	.511	W3
9	Baltimore	44	43	.506	E4
10	Detroit	44	44	.5	C3
11	Toronto	42	47	.472	E5
12	Kansas City	40	50	.444	C4
13	Cleveland	37	51	.42	C5
14	Seattle	35	54	.393	W4

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Comments

2006-04-13 11:24:02

1. Sam DC

What percentage of starts are "quality starts"?

I could be proved wrong, but I believe the Washington Nationals' percentage so far this year, including today's game, is zero.

2006-04-13 11:43:32

2. DXMachina

In 2005, Dodger starters turned in 79 quality starts (48.8%). Of those starts, they ultimately won 47 of them (59.5%).

Over the last couple of years, Jeff Weaver in particular seemed to have a knack for meeting the bare minimum requirements for a QS game after game.

2006-04-13 12:45:39

3. Robert Daeley

For those (like myself) who don't know what a "quality start" is, Wikipedia defines it as:

"Quality Start is a relatively new baseball statistic developed by John Lowe. It attempts to gauge the number of "good" starts that a pitcher has. A start is defined to be a quality start if the pitcher pitches at least six innings and allows no more than three earned runs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_start

2006-04-13 16:56:09

4. Sam DC

BTW - since you reported the story, and I've been sticking too much DC stuff in the comments at DT, the Brandon Watson experiment is over for now. The Nationals swapped Watson and Byrd from AAA New Orleans and the ML team this afternoon. Not clear how Robinson will use Church and Marlon Byrd, though they do make a possible platoon pair in center.

2006-04-13 17:17:42

5. Sam DC

I'll just add, this is sort of ridiculous. Didn't like the initial move, but now you demote Watson after a week? Nice. And Bowden said Church lost his job b/c he got "outplayed" during ST, but Church has been awful in NO. I am sure there are other outfielders there who have been hitting better. Why don't they get the call (I know why, but those same reasons should have kept Church up in the first place). Finally, this is all well and good, but DC's problem is pitching far more than hitting . . . Reeks of Bowden doing something just to do it.