Zack Greinke is the 2015 Quality Starter
Quality Starts should acknowledged as being a decent pitching performance (six innings allowing no more than three earned runs), but an Ultra Quality Start should be treasured as an outstanding pitching performance (seven innings allowing no more than two earned runs).
Here are the leaders:
Pitchers with at least 20 QS
| Rk | Player | # | W | L | CG | SHO | IP | H | ER | Tm | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zack Greinke | 26 | 15 | 3 | .833 | 1.30 | 1 | 0 | 180.2 | 117 | 26 | 0.81 | LAD |
| 2 | Jake Arrieta | 25 | 19 | 3 | .864 | 1.43 | 3 | 2 | 176.2 | 111 | 28 | 0.84 | CHC |
| 3 | Dallas Keuchel | 24 | 15 | 4 | .789 | 1.51 | 2 | 2 | 173.1 | 123 | 29 | 0.92 | HOU |
| 4 | Clayton Kershaw | 24 | 13 | 4 | .765 | 1.54 | 3 | 2 | 175.2 | 110 | 30 | 0.77 | LAD |
| 5 | John Lackey | 23 | 11 | 5 | .688 | 2.01 | 0 | 0 | 161.0 | 144 | 36 | 1.13 | STL |
| 6 | Jose Quintana | 22 | 9 | 7 | .563 | 2.33 | 1 | 1 | 147.0 | 144 | 38 | 1.18 | CHW |
| 7 | David Price | 22 | 14 | 3 | .824 | 1.64 | 3 | 1 | 165.0 | 126 | 30 | 0.96 | DET,TOR |
| 8 | Jacob deGrom | 22 | 13 | 3 | .813 | 1.47 | 0 | 0 | 152.2 | 101 | 25 | 0.81 | NYM |
| 9 | Sonny Gray | 21 | 12 | 3 | .800 | 1.45 | 3 | 2 | 155.0 | 98 | 25 | 0.86 | OAK |
| 10 | Gerrit Cole | 21 | 16 | 2 | .889 | 1.61 | 0 | 0 | 145.0 | 108 | 26 | 0.95 | PIT |
| 11 | Jordan Zimmermann | 20 | 9 | 4 | .692 | 1.92 | 0 | 0 | 135.2 | 113 | 29 | 1.01 | WSN |
| 12 | Chris Sale | 20 | 12 | 3 | .800 | 1.72 | 1 | 0 | 146.2 | 93 | 28 | 0.79 | CHW |
| 13 | Garrett Richards | 20 | 11 | 5 | .688 | 2.53 | 1 | 1 | 139.0 | 106 | 39 | 1.06 | LAA |
| 14 | Madison Bumgarner | 20 | 14 | 3 | .824 | 1.73 | 4 | 2 | 146.0 | 103 | 28 | 0.87 | SFG |
Pitchers with at least 13 UQS
| Rk | Player | # | W | L | CG | SHO | IP | H | ER | Tm | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clayton Kershaw | 16 | 11 | 2 | .846 | 0.80 | 3 | 2 | 124.0 | 73 | 11 | 0.69 | LAD |
| 2 | Zack Greinke | 16 | 11 | 1 | .917 | 0.76 | 1 | 0 | 118.1 | 71 | 10 | 0.76 | LAD |
| 3 | David Price | 15 | 11 | 2 | .846 | 0.99 | 3 | 1 | 118.1 | 77 | 13 | 0.86 | DET,TOR |
| 4 | John Lackey | 15 | 10 | 2 | .833 | 1.49 | 0 | 0 | 109.0 | 90 | 18 | 1.02 | STL |
| 5 | Dallas Keuchel | 15 | 10 | 1 | .909 | 0.79 | 2 | 2 | 114.0 | 73 | 10 | 0.80 | HOU |
| 6 | Felix Hernandez | 15 | 14 | 1 | .933 | 1.12 | 2 | 2 | 112.0 | 67 | 14 | 0.81 | SEA |
| 7 | Max Scherzer | 14 | 10 | 4 | .714 | 0.99 | 3 | 2 | 108.2 | 55 | 12 | 0.62 | WSN |
| 8 | Chris Sale | 14 | 9 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.19 | 1 | 0 | 106.0 | 66 | 14 | 0.76 | CHW |
| 9 | Jon Lester | 14 | 6 | 2 | .750 | 1.25 | 0 | 0 | 101.0 | 71 | 14 | 0.87 | CHC |
| 10 | Sonny Gray | 14 | 10 | 1 | .909 | 0.91 | 3 | 2 | 109.0 | 57 | 11 | 0.69 | OAK |
| 11 | Jacob deGrom | 14 | 10 | 1 | .909 | 0.95 | 0 | 0 | 104.0 | 55 | 11 | 0.68 | NYM |
| 12 | Madison Bumgarner | 14 | 10 | 3 | .769 | 1.33 | 4 | 2 | 108.2 | 73 | 16 | 0.80 | SFG |
| 13 | Jake Arrieta | 14 | 12 | 1 | .923 | 0.58 | 3 | 2 | 108.2 | 48 | 7 | 0.62 | CHC |
| 14 | Cole Hamels | 13 | 7 | 1 | .875 | 1.31 | 1 | 1 | 96.1 | 54 | 14 | 0.80 | PHI,TEX |
| 15 | Gerrit Cole | 13 | 11 | 1 | .917 | 1.24 | 0 | 0 | 94.1 | 68 | 13 | 0.94 | PIT |