Not much consolation, and not much of an answer, but sometimes **** happens and players inexplicably have a bad season now and then. You're dealing with a small sample size of only nine starts, but all you can really do is ride it out and hope his performance starts to move back to "normal".
My best example of "sometimes **** happens" is my Hall of Fame pitcher from Cooperstown, who throw in an absolute stinker of a season right in the middle of his career (season 19):
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9 |
MC |
ML |
6 |
6 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
40.2 |
33 |
15 |
12 |
4 |
13 |
32 |
.216 |
.297 |
.346 |
1.13 |
2.66 |
10 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
1 |
18 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
219.1 |
227 |
108 |
103 |
26 |
71 |
145 |
.268 |
.329 |
.409 |
1.36 |
4.23 |
11 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
5 |
23 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
246.1 |
231 |
90 |
83 |
34 |
52 |
173 |
.247 |
.290 |
.384 |
1.15 |
3.03 |
12 |
MC |
ML |
34 |
34 |
0 |
15 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
217.0 |
210 |
98 |
95 |
31 |
92 |
161 |
.250 |
.328 |
.406 |
1.39 |
3.94 |
13 |
MC |
ML |
34 |
34 |
2 |
23 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
235.2 |
199 |
73 |
71 |
22 |
59 |
175 |
.226 |
.280 |
.329 |
1.09 |
2.71 |
14 |
MC |
ML |
34 |
34 |
0 |
22 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
229.0 |
231 |
98 |
97 |
27 |
58 |
140 |
.261 |
.311 |
.401 |
1.26 |
3.81 |
15 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
5 |
19 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
243.1 |
198 |
81 |
69 |
32 |
63 |
166 |
.219 |
.273 |
.350 |
1.07 |
2.55 |
16 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
3 |
16 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
243.2 |
233 |
107 |
103 |
30 |
61 |
155 |
.247 |
.298 |
.378 |
1.21 |
3.80 |
17 |
MC |
ML |
23 |
23 |
3 |
13 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
159.0 |
160 |
64 |
62 |
17 |
33 |
118 |
.263 |
.303 |
.400 |
1.21 |
3.51 |
18 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
2 |
13 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
235.0 |
226 |
99 |
94 |
32 |
51 |
168 |
.249 |
.293 |
.404 |
1.18 |
3.60 |
19 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
0 |
6 |
19 |
0 |
0 |
211.0 |
249 |
138 |
130 |
36 |
73 |
156 |
.292 |
.355 |
.470 |
1.53 |
5.55 |
20 |
MC |
ML |
27 |
27 |
2 |
13 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
181.2 |
173 |
65 |
63 |
17 |
42 |
128 |
.249 |
.295 |
.378 |
1.18 |
3.12 |
21 |
MC |
ML |
27 |
27 |
1 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
181.1 |
168 |
74 |
70 |
25 |
53 |
112 |
.243 |
.303 |
.396 |
1.22 |
3.47 |
22 |
MC |
ML |
34 |
34 |
1 |
12 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
203.1 |
195 |
93 |
90 |
33 |
53 |
124 |
.250 |
.305 |
.431 |
1.22 |
3.98 |
23 |
MC |
ML |
35 |
35 |
0 |
15 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
222.1 |
211 |
86 |
85 |
29 |
56 |
151 |
.247 |
.300 |
.398 |
1.20 |
3.44 |
24 |
MC |
ML |
33 |
33 |
0 |
10 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
206.1 |
177 |
84 |
70 |
21 |
69 |
137 |
.228 |
.294 |
.358 |
1.19 |
3.05 |
25 |
MC |
ML |
33 |
33 |
0 |
12 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
186.0 |
189 |
88 |
81 |
23 |
56 |
113 |
.261 |
.317 |
.401 |
1.32 |
3.92 |
26 |
MC |
ML |
8 |
8 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
46.1 |
39 |
14 |
11 |
3 |
11 |
37 |
.227 |
.293 |
.291 |
1.08 |
2.14 |
27 |
MC |
ML |
33 |
33 |
0 |
15 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
181.0 |
165 |
76 |
73 |
16 |
61 |
100 |
.241 |
.307 |
.361 |
1.25 |
3.63 |
28 |
MC |
ML |
32 |
32 |
0 |
11 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
165.1 |
156 |
71 |
68 |
24 |
50 |
100 |
.244 |
.305 |
.399 |
1.25 |
3.70 |
Career |
Totals |
ML |
603 |
603 |
25 |
275 |
172 |
0 |
0 |
3853.2 |
3670 |
1622 |
1530 |
482 |
1077 |
2591 |
.248 |
.304 |
.390 |
1.23 |
3.57 |