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Nonquality Starts
2006-04-13 14:24
Meet Bob. Bob links to Rob. Rob talks about quality starts. Meet Ken. Ken agrees with Rob: the "quality start" is a pretty good stat. It's not perfect, by any means, but it does explain things sometimes. It certainly explains why the A's just got swept in Minnesota. The A's didn't get anything even resembling a quality start against the Twins. Last year, the A's quality start percentage nearly matched their winning percentage: they got 90 quality starts, and won 88 games. This year, the A's only have three quality starts out of ten. They're 3-0 in their games with quality starts, and 2-5 without them. I certainly expect the A's to get a lot closer to the 55% quality start percentage they had last year than the 30% they've put up in 2006. So while falling back to .500 is disheartening, there's no reason to panic about a 10-game stretch of .500 ball. These things happen. The pitching will come around, and things will get better.
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LatNam sees that without Leo Mazzonne the Braves don't have a quality start all year.
LatNam misses Leo.
Basically, Ken, what I'm saying is, I feel your pain.
I wrote about it at www.canyonofheroes.com, but far less eloquently than you did. I also need to pick up the quality start as a regular point of analysis. My thinking was dancing around the issue, but you hit it head on.
What a team gotta do to get a quality start these days?
Except for one start by Rich Harden, where he ran out of gas after 5 2/3, the non-quality starts by the A's this year have simply been due to bad pitching.
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