Braves hiring Fredi Gonzalez as Bobby's replacement?...

Poor KK. He wasn't that bad. I did a comparison on him and Lowe when KK was 0-7. His numbers were nearly identical, and Lowe's record was like 9-5.

 

Kawakami was the king of the 4 1/3 innings pitched, 3 earned runs start, with Cox forced to pull him with the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the fifth. There were only three games this year where he pitched a quality start and lost.

 

I saw it as 5 of his first 7 were quality starts and losses.

 

Kawakami's 2010 starts:

4/11 @ SF: 6 IP, 3 ER --- L*
4/17 COL: 5 IP, 4 ER --- L
4/23 @NYM: 6 IP, 3 ER --- L*
4/28 @ StL: 4.1 IP, 4 ER --- L
5/4 @ WSH: 5 IP, 3 ER --- L
5/9 @ PHI: 6.2 IP, 5 ER --- L
5/14 ARI: 5.1 IP, 4 ER --- ND
5/19 CIN: 6 IP, 0 ER --- ND
5/25 @FLA: 6 IP, 3 ER --- L*
5/30 PIT: 6.2 IP, 2 ER --- ND
6/4 @ LA: 6.1 IP, 5 ER --- L
6/9 @ ARI: 4 IP, 0 ER --- ND
6/15 TB: 5 IP, 2 ER --- L
6/20 KC: 2 IP, 4 ER --- ND
6/26 DET: 6 IP, 1 ER --- W!!!!!!!!!!!!
9/3 @FLA: 3 IP, 5 ER --- L

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=kawakke01&t=p&year=2010

So no, it was just 3 quality starts that were losses. He did have two quality starts that were no-decisions, most notably 6 shutout innings against Cincinnati on May 19.

But as Don Sutton is fond of saying, a 6-inning, 3-run quality start is still a 4.50 ERA. What's "quality" about that?