Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 21, 2003
Quality Starts

I saw in some notes from STATS, Inc, that Jeremy Bonderman had a number of quality starts recently. He is 3-5 in nine quality starts this year, which led me to wonder what was the worst record for a pitcher in his quality starts? I looked at pitchers with at least 10 QS from 1987 to 2003. Here are the worst winning percentages:

Pitcher             Year  QS   W   L   WPct
Kyle Abbott         1992  10   0   6   0.000
Danny Darwin        1997  12   1   6   0.143
Steve Cooke         1994  13   1   5   0.167
Rick Mahler         1988  18   4   8   0.333
Omar Daal           2000  12   3   6   0.333
Vicente Palacios    1994  11   2   4   0.333
Ken Hill            1989  18   5   9   0.357
John Dopson         1988  17   3   5   0.375
Willie Blair        1998  10   3   5   0.375
Bruce Ruffin        1991  11   3   5   0.375
Frank Castillo      2002  11   3   5   0.375
Tony Saunders       1998  19   5   8   0.385

Bonderman will make this list if he loses his next quality start, which won't be tonight, since the Red Sox are up 12-3 on the Tigers.

Posted by David Pinto at 08:40 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)