Just 1 correction, Boof has 5 quality starts.

Bonser this year is a perfect example (and Silva and Santana last year). Boof’s had 4 quality starts, 3 bad ones (2 were horrific). His W/L record is lousy (2-4), but that record’s not at all predictive of his actual pitching, nor does it tell of an accurate picture of his performance thus far. It’s not a pitchers “fault” if the offense is lifeless.

To demonstrate, if we discount Boof’s last start where the offense truly came through for the team, in his first 6 starts the offense only produced 10 runs for him TOTAL (1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 3). Was it Boof’s fault that “he” had lost those 4 quality starts he gave us? Absolutely not. The offense lost those games for him. He pitched well enough to give us a chance to win, and you simply can’t ask for more than that from any starter.

That’s what the Quality Start statistic is all about, and why many fans favor it over the “mlb accepted” stats for starting pitchers. (There are other better pitching stats out there that mlb doesn’t recognize, too, but that’s worthy of an entire book - see any of Bill James’ books on the subject). Judging any starter by his W/L record is unfair to that starter and inaccurate except by coincidence.

Now hopefully slowey and perkins can have similar attitudes and success!