It’s pretty much the consensus these days that we just don’t care that much about a pitcher’s win-loss record. With starts getting shorter and shorter, with a better understanding every day of all the little things that a game can turn on, a guy being a “20 game winner” is as much viewed as a neat confluence of luck and curiosity as it is a demonstration of actual talent.
That said, I don’t care what year it is if you go 3-12 on the year, or if in the 25 games you start, your team goes 10-15 — that’s not great.