Dating back to last August, here's Matt Barnes' last 36 appearances:
2021: 16 g, 10.2 ip, 17 h, 12 r, 12 er, 9 bb, 16 k
2022: 20 g, 17.0 ip, 17 h, 18 r, 15 er, 12 bb, 14 k
TOT: 36 g, 27.2 ip, 34 h, 30 r, 27 er, 21 bb, 30 k, 8.78 era, 1.99 whip, 9.8 k/9
The previous four years (2017-2020), Barnes had done this:
216 g, 203.2 ip, 157 h, 92 r, 86 er, 103 bb, 321 k, 3.80 era, 1.28 whip, 14.2 k/9
So his numbers the last two months of last year and into this year have been unfathomably bad. As in...this guy had better not ever throw another pitch in a Red Sox uniform kind of bad. We know he's typically been much better than this though. But that was when he was throwing 98. Now he's throwing, what, 93? Big difference. It's not just that his era and whip have gone through the roof. It's that his k/9 numbers are way way WAY down from what they'd been the previous four years.