it is within baseball common sense that the starting pitcher has the task of giving his team a chance to win by pitching into the latter inning of the game while allowing less runs than the offense scores so yes, even while misleading and overrated, we should award the "W" with about 3 pts, but the loss, if the guy pitched really poorly, he will allow enough walks, hits and ER to come up with a bad score.

and yes. if "wasting a once-in-a-lifetime pitching talent" was a stat the Royals would league the league in it.