“We don’t win the World Series without him, honestly,” Davey Martinez told reporters when he was asked last month to assess Patrick Corbin’s performance over the course of his six-year/$140M deal with the Nationals (2019-2024).
In the first year of his deal, Corbin did his part to help bring a World Series championship to the nation’s capital for the first time since 1924.
While acknowledging Corbin’s struggles in the subsequent seasons, Martinez said, it’s the run to the World Series with the lefty in the rotation, and coming out of the bullpen in the postseason that he’ll remember when he thinks about their time together in D.