Over the final weekend of the 2022 season, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo gave the lefty he signed to a 6-year/$140M deal before the 2019 campaign a vote of confidence. He told reporters in the nation’s capital he saw Patrick Corbin as a starter in 2023, and said he expected the 33-year-old southpaw to build on a few strong starts late in the ‘22 campaign and find a way to be effective in the fifth year of his six-year deal in D.C.
“I see him as a starter for us next year,” Rizzo said of the starter who finished (6-19) with a 6.