Who is the worst starting pitcher in baseball?

[ab]

Pavano?

(I guess that's not fair...)

[PlayingWithFire]

Hudson for the Royals... He had a really bad start... 33.00 WHIP and 270.00 ERA...

And he was respectable in about 80% of his starts

[Half Massed]

Towers, Mays and Russ have been awful. I'd most want to face good ol' 20 game winner Russ in an important game if I had a choice. Of course, anyone pitching Ortiz in an important game should be fired, but that's besides the point.

[Kingctb27]

Russ Ortiz, and to think that he won 20 games on the Braves

[Seanyfever]

Russ Ortiz has failed miserably all season.

[Laean]

jose lima popped into my head first. but when i read russ ortiz it became like trying to pick between a lemon pinto or a yugo.

[GotowarMissAgnes]

By VORP, the worst SP (limiting it to guys who have only started or have started 10 or more games:

Perez -12.8
Silva -14.3
Mulder -15.0
Mays -16.8
Towers -18.6

So, Towers has been the worst, but you have to give Mays a prize, too. He's done that in just 6 starts, while Towers got 12, so he's clearly been the worst pitcher per start. If you gave Mays a full year at that rate, he would cost his team almost 100 runs single-handedly.

Cabrera doesn't even deserve a nod, especially since he recently had a string of 17 IP with no runs. Chen, Lopez, Ortiz, and Loewen have all been much worse than him on the O's. Cabrera's actually in the top 150 pitchers.

[Snakes Gould]

russ ortiz was the first person who came to my mind too