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Who is Patrick Corbin? 10 things to know about the Texas Rangers’ starting pitcher
Patrick Corbin wasn’t on Texas Rangers fans’ radars until well into spring training in 2025, but he’s become a consistent piece on the rotation so far this season.
Corbin was brought to Texas to provide pitching depth in the starting rotation, and he has done just that, even with short notice.
Here are 10 things to know about Corbin.
1. The basics
Name: Patrick Alan Corbin
Born: July 19, 1989
Ht.: 6-4 Wt.: 225 lb
Hometown: Clay, New York
College: Chipola College
Draft: 2nd round, 2009 (Los Angeles Angels)
2. Late to the party in Texas
As mentioned above, Corbin signed with the Rangers on March 18, 2025 when Texas’ starting rotation was hit with significant injuries to Jon Gray and Cody Bradford during spring training.
Corbin was brought in to eat innings for a Rangers rotation that needed depth in a bad way. He had the 15th most innings in baseball over the previous four seasons, albeit with ugly numbers.
Through his first 10 starts with the Rangers, Corbin has been a pleasant surprise with a 3.71 ERA in 53 1/3 innings with 41 strikeouts and 18 walks. Even if he reverts to his previous struggles before coming to Texas, he has given the Rangers everything they could have asked for in his first couple of months with the team while Gray and Bradford are on the mend.
3. A historic win
Corbin was a part of the 2019 Nationals team that topped the Astros in the World Series.
He capped that season with as memorable a win as a major league pitcher could have, as he was the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 2019 World Series when the Nationals beat the Astros in Houston.
Corbin pitched three scoreless, two-hit innings in relief of Max Scherzer in that Game 7. He entered the game in the sixth inning with Washington down 2-0, but the Nationals had a 4-2 lead when he finished his scoreless eighth inning, which put him in line for the historic win
In that playoff run, which is the only year Corbin has pitched in the playoffs, he had a 5.79 ERA in 23 1/3 innings. He appeared in eight games and made three starts for Washington during those playoffs.
4. Injury history
Corbin was set to be the Diamondbacks’ opening day starter in 2014, but he felt arm tightness during a spring training start.
It was later recealed he has an injury to his ulnar collateral ligament and, like many pitchers in modern baseball, Corbin underwent Tommy John surgery and missed the whole 2014 season. He returned to Arizona’s rotation on July 4, 2015.
5. Late bloomer
He didn’t join his Cicero-North Syracuse High School baseball team until his junior year, according to a story in The New York Post. Corbin’s friends ultimately convinced him to try out.
“It was the second day of tryouts and he showed up in the stretch line in jeans,” his high school coach Kevin Rockwell said. “I asked if he was a righty or a lefty and if he could hit. He said he couldn’t hit, but he was a lefty and could throw hard, ‘But I have no idea where it’s going.’ ”
In his senior year, he had an 8-0 record and allowed just 33 hits and 16 runs in 47 innings. Corbin finished his career with a 14-0 record and 139 strikeouts.
6. Got paid
Corbin hit free agency following a 2018 All-Star campaign with the Diamondbacks and cashed in big-time.
The Nationals signed Corbin, who was 29 years old at the time, to a six-year, $140 million contract ahead of the 2019 season.
7. Two-time All-Star
Corbin made two All-Star teams in his career, both during his time with the Diamondbacks.
In 2013, he was named a National League All-Star when he entered the All-Star break with an 11-1 record and 2.35 ERA in 19 starts. Corbin finished the year with a 14-8 record and 3.41 ERA in 32 starts.
He made the NL All-Star team again in 2018 when he headed into the All-Star break with a 6-4 record and 3.24 ERA in 20 starts. Corbin finished the season with an 11-7 record and 3.15 ERA in 33 starts.
8. Unique college journey
His grades in high school weren’t good enough to get him into a four-year college to play baseball. He ended up at Mohawk Valley Community College, located in Utica, New York.
Corbin played baseball and basketball his freshman year at Mohawk Valley. The summer after his freshman year, he caught scouts’ attention during summer ball.
That led him to Chipola College, which has one of the top junior college programs in the country. Corbin quit basketball and focused solely on baseball at his new school.
After a standout year at Chipola, he had signed a letter of intent with the University of Southern Mississippi, but opted to sign his first professional contract when the Angels drafted him with the 80th overall pick in the 2009 MLB draft.
9. Basketball was his first love
He was cut from a basketball team in seventh grade, so he avoided trying out for his high school teams until his junior year.
Corbin was a basketball standout at Cicero and played both sports during his one year at Mohawk Valley.
“He was a basketball junkie,” Mohawk Valley head coach Dave Warren said. “He wanted to play for Jim Boeheim. I think the tide turned toward baseball when he got here.
“He had a great year for us even though he was focused on basketball. We started indoor baseball in February, so he would show up in his basketball shorts and throw a bullpen [session].”
10. Struggles in Washington
Although he was a part of a World Series championship team in Washington in his first year, he turned into one of the worst contracts in baseball for most of his time with the Nationals.
From 2021-2024, the final four years of Corbin’s deal with the Nationals were ugly for any pitcher, let alone a pitcher on a contract that averaged over $23 million per year.
Among the 58 pitchers with at least 500 innings in those four years, he ranked last in ERA (5.71), losses (63), hits allowed (820) and WHIP (1.532). In that same timeframe, he led the major leagues in losses three times, led in hits allowed twice, led in earned runs allowed three times and led in home runs allowed once.
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Texas Rangers investigating City of Trinidad after water issues, controversial arrests, firings
Trinidad officials mum on Texas Rangers’ investigation
The Texas Rangers are investigating the City of Trinidad following controversial arrests and public water issues, but city officials still have yet to comment to FOX 4 about the investigation. FOX 4’s David Sentendrey has more.
TRINIDAD, Texas – After controversial arrests, alleged retaliatory firings and a litany of water issues, the Texas Rangers are investigating the City of Trinidad.
What we know:
The Texas Rangers confirmed to FOX 4 they have begun an investigation into the City of Trinidad.
“We can confirm the Texas Rangers are investigating. As this is an active investigation, we have no further information to provide,” the Texas Rangers said to FOX 4 in a statement.
Dig deeper:
The law enforcement agency’s investigation comes as multiple lawsuits have been filed against the city over retaliatory firings and controversial arrests related to the city’s water quality issues.
This week, former Trinidad City Administrator and Secretary Lindsey Patterson filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming she had “no record of discipline” when she was terminated in Feb. 2026.
Patterson’s suit claims she was fired after reporting to the Trinidad Police Department that “public funds belonging to the city were being held by private individuals.”
Former Trinidad City Administrator Lindsey Patterson
Trinidad’s current City Administrator, Cynthia Dosier, has been listed as a defendant in several of the lawsuits. She has not returned FOX 4’s request for comment since our first report.
On Friday, FOX 4’s David Sentendrey attempted to speak to Dosier at her office in Trinidad. Dosier had no comment when asked about the Texas Rangers’ investigation.
“It’s way bigger than just water”
What they’re saying:
Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws previously called for an investigation by the Texas Rangers into the city’s now-public issues. He tells Sentendrey he’s glad that’s finally happening.
“I wanted people here to know that there is going to be transparency at the end of this,” Haws said.
“We need to know that our office is in order and I think the best way to do that is with a third party having eyes on it and finding out what really is going on here.”
Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws
The investigation wouldn’t have come without Henderson County resident Jennifer Combs’ arrest for a Facebook post concerning the city’s water quality.
“To tell the story to someone they would think you were crazy. You know what I mean?”
She says she’s glad the Texas Rangers are investigating, but that the root of the issue remains: the city’s water issues.
“I’m just ready for all of it to calm down and what’s going to happen is gonna happen, and the rest needs to be done so we can get back to the real issues of fixing the water. People deserve clean water.”
Trinidad Water Saga
Timeline:
The saga in Trinidad, which claims less than 800 residents, began in May following Combs’ arrest over the city’s water issues.
Combs’ post stated that people had been hospitalized after drinking the city’s water. FOX 4 has not verified that anyone in Trinidad was hospitalized from drinking the city’s water.
A Henderson County grand jury declined to indict Combs, who has since filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Trinidad and Gregory which alleges she was arrested in “an act of deliberate political retaliation.”
Since our initial report, FOX 4 has continued to receive images of dirty and discolored water from the residents of Trinidad.
Trinidad officials have admitted the city has struggled to keep its water clean. Combs said the water “looks like the Trinity River.”
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) confirmed to FOX 4 it received a complaint regarding the water quality in Trinidad, and that an investigation is ongoing.
Woman arrested after Facebook post over water concerns
A woman in Henderson County was arrested earlier this month after she made a Facebook post about concerning water issues in the small town of Trinidad. FOX 4’s David Sentendrey sat down with the woman to hear her side of the story.
One day after FOX 4’s initial report on Combs, citizen journalist Winston Noles protested outside Trinidad City Hall with a sign with expletives targeting “bad cops.”
Noles was arrested and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct for the sign. The Trinidad Municipal Judge, Shellena Bivens, later dismissed the charge.
On Wednesday, May 27, Alex Estrada and Colby Reyes, two former Trinidad employees, filed a lawsuit against the city claiming the city administrator fired them without cause.
Reyes, the former Trinidad Water Clerk, says in the lawsuit that she was fired because she “refused to lie” on behalf of Gregory and City Administrator Dosier.
Reyes’ lawsuit claims Gregory publicly fabricated a story that Reyes was frightened by Noles in order to arrest him, in which Reyes says she put in writing she was “never offended” by Noles.
A law firm representing Estrada and Reyes and Consumer Wellness Center Labs are organizing free independent water testing for people on Trinidad’s water supply as the TCEQ investigation continues.
At a May 28 Trinidad City Council meeting, Judge Bivens was fired as the city’s municipal judge. The issue of water quality in Trinidad was never addressed.
Gregory, who made his first public comments since FOX 4 initially reported on the story, said he had “nothing to hide” in relation to Combs and Noles’ arrests.
Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws suggested to Sentendrey that the Texas Rangers should investigate the city and its police department after the recent arrests and water issues have come to light.
Bivens is considering legal action against Trinidad, with her attorney saying her firing was unjust. “I’m a good judge. I’m a damn good judge,” Bivens told Sentendrey.
In June, a family in Trinidad alleged that after showering with the city’s water, their teenage daughter suffered a chemical burn.
An attorney for the family provided a preliminary water test strip result that showed “dangerous” free chlorine levels in the Logan family’s water. It remains unclear if Trinidad’s recent water treatment led to the Logans’ daughter’s rash.
A planned meeting for Thursday, June 4 to give an update on the city’s attempts to fix their water quality issues was canceled. Mayor Haws said he did not receive a reason for the cancellation, though a small protest took place outside the planned meeting.
Gregory resigned from his position as Trinidad Police Chief following the multiple controversies. His final day with the department was June 19.
Gregory has declined interview requests from FOX 4, citing pending lawsuits.
Following news of Gregory’s resignation, the Trinidad judge who approved the arrest warrant for Combs wrote a scathing letter against him and his police department.
McKee’s letter questions “the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of information presented” to him by two Trinidad police officers in relation to Combs’ arrest warrant.
What’s next:
Interim Trinidad Police Chief Cameron Beckham told Sentendrey over the phone he has a meeting with the Texas Rangers in the next few weeks and plans to fully cooperate with their investigation.
The Source: Information in this story comes from the Texas Rangers, the City of Trinidad and previous FOX 4 reporting.
An investigation is underway after the Lewisville Police Department said a fetus was found deceased along the Lewisville Lake shoreline Friday morning.
Police said a resident called them to report the discovery around 8 a.m. near Lake Park Road. Officers then began searching for evidence alongside investigators from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. The scene has since been cleared.
The department said the fetus appeared to have been between five and six months of gestation and appeared to have been intentionally discarded along the shoreline. The medical examiner’s office is now working to determine identity and other characteristics.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Detective Craig Holleman by emailing cholleman@cityoflewisville.com or by calling 972-219-3620. Anonymous tips can also be shared with the Denton County Crime Stoppers online or by calling 1-800-388-TIPS.
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