That's 22 "disaster starts" this year

[jubbyjubb]

This is the reason I've been telling people I haven't been to many games. To take my family on a weekend and sit in decent seats will run me close to $400. Between Ubaldo, Miley and Gallardo there is a pretty good chance I might catch a "disaster start" and watch that money go up in smoke.

[thezeroes]

The Orioles have had 29 Disaster Starts so far this season. This is a start that they have went 5 innings or less and given up 5 runs or more.

Of these 29 “Disasters” the Orioles did manage to win 7 of them.

Gausman has had 2 “Disasters”

Miley has had 3 “Disasters”, one win.

Tillman has had 3 “Disasters”, one win.

Bundy has had 3 “Disasters”

Wright has had 3 “Disasters” one win.

Wilson has had 3 “Disasters” one win.

Gallardo has had 4 “Disasters”, one win.

Ubaldo has had 8 “Disasters”, two wins

6 of the “Disasters” were against Boston, 3 wins.

4 of the “Disasters” were against Toronto, all losses.

4 of the “Disasters” were against Tampa Bay, 2 wins.

3 of the “Disasters” were against NYY, all losses

3 Of the “Disasters” were against Seattle, all losses

2 of the “Disasters” were against Houston, both losses.

1 game each of these “Disasters” against San Francisco(w), Oakland, Angels, Detroit, Colorado, Cleveland, and White Sox (Losses)

[Drifter]

We used to call this stat "STBs" - the acronym means soiling the bed (although another word used instead of "soiling")...but, yes, good stuff. And, this after two offseasons where the number one crystal clear without a question need for the team in both 2015 and 2016 was a proven starter. GMs need to be held accountable.

IIRC ..as a kid, the long reliever used to be called 'mop up man'?

In any event, great post Frobby!

[Ori-Al]

Reminds me of a quote from Wieters last night about one of Gallardo's "non-competitive" pitches.

""Just consistency," Wieters said of Gallardo's poor opening inning. "I think he made some good pitches, but there were times when he made some non-competitive pitches and got behind in counts."

http://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2016/09/matt-wieters-and-yovani-gallardo-on-the-orioles-loss-to-the-rays.html

I question Wieters or Gallardo's call of a first pitch cut fastball to Longoria, who was no doubt looking fastball.

[25 Nuggets]

I decided I needed a new statistic, the "disaster start" to capture how often our starters have put us in a ridiculously bad position this year. I define a "disaster start" as pitching less than 5 innings and allowing 5 runs or more. Gallardo's disaster last night was our 22nd disaster start of the year. The starters are 0-18 in those games, and the team is 2-20. That doesn't include the 10 other times our starters failed to go 5 innings, or the 16 other times they gave up 5+ runs. Just the worst of the worst.

Boston -18 times

New York - 13 times

Toronto - 8 times

Nice. Certainly has at least enough merit as the quality start.

[Fan4Life]

Nice. Certainly has at least enough merit as the quality start.

Would it also be appropriate to see how our division did in my version of the anti-Disaster start? How often have we taken a 5 run lead before the 5th inning on our opponent? How many did we lose? As well as the rest of the division.

[Orioles0615]

I decided I needed a new statistic, the "disaster start" to capture how often our starters have put us in a ridiculously bad position this year. I define a "disaster start" as pitching less than 5 innings and allowing 5 runs or more. Gallardo's disaster last night was our 22nd disaster start of the year. The starters are 0-18 in those games, and the team is 2-20. That doesn't include the 10 other times our starters failed to go 5 innings, or the 16 other times they gave up 5+ runs. Just the worst of the worst.

Boston -18 times

New York - 13 times

Toronto - 8 times

It would be interesting also to see the number of starts guys have had where we are down by 3 or more after the first inning.

[Filmstudy]

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That's probably good for TWO additional categories:

1) ) Quality Start

2) ) Anti-Disaster Start

3) ) Disaster Start

The "Anti-Disaster" start would not be as good as a quality start, but would not as bad as a "Disaster" start, either ...... something like 5.33 innings and 3 or 4 runs, or 6 or 7 innings and 5 or 6 runs, or 4.67 innings and 3 or 4 runs, etc.

The anti-disaster should simply be all other starts, right?