“This guy endured a lot last year,” Davey Martinez said of Patrick Corbin this winter, looking back on the 33-year-old left-hander’s (6-19) 2022 run, which saw him finish the fourth year of his 6-year/$140M deal with the club with a 6.31 ERA, a 4.83 FIP, 49 walks (2.89 BB/9), 128 strikeouts (7.55 K/9), and a .321/.374/.513 line against in 31 starts and 152 2⁄3 innings.
It was a third straight rough season for Corbin, after he helped Washington win the World Series in his first with the team in 2019.
But he kept going out there and working to figure things out.