I Will Stop at Nothing / Say the Right Things When Electioneering: Pure Quality Start (PQS), Game Score and Why Cliff Lee Should Not Have Won the 2008 Cy Young Award

by jessef on Apr 25, 2009 10:58 AM EDT

During a game thread last week, the term pure quality start came up. Since I plan to use PQS as an important indicator of how pitchers have been doing this year (and consequently how well they'll do going forward), I'd like to do a quick post just to explain what it is, how to score it and why I...