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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Except it wasn't a "trend" prior to 2022, even though you keep trying to push that narrative. It was one bad season.
2017: 1.9 WAR (25 Starts)
2018: 3.5 WAR (32 Starts)
2019: 3.6 WAR (32 Starts)
2020: 0.7 WAR (12 starts in shortened season)
2021: 3.3 WAR (32 start - 1.4 WAR in 12 starts as a Blue Jay)
2022: -0.6 WAR (32 starts)
2022 was the first really poor season of his career.
This site is pretty good breakdown of Barrios - https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savan...r-pitching-mlb
Velocity hasn't dipped. Movement is relatively the same. He's not even really throwing many more bad pitches. But when he has missed they are jumping on it more and are hitting it hard. So maybe he's not disguising things as well. |
Was he a pine tar victim? Serious question. Seems like a lot of pitchers got burned once pine tar was banned.