{"id":17179,"date":"2025-05-10T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17179\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:59:09","slug":"how-the-cutter-has-made-texas-rangers-starter-patrick-corbin-a-comeback-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17179\/","title":{"rendered":"How the cutter has made Texas Rangers starter Patrick Corbin a comeback story"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT – When the Rangers<\/a> signed Patrick Corbin in the final week of spring training<\/a>, it was more desperation than anything else. After a spate of injuries, they latched onto Corbin, despite the highest ERA in baseball over the previous five seasons.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t ask for much. Just some innings. <\/p>\n

But thanks to growing confidence in a cutter he alone cultivated last year, Corbin has given them both innings and performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though he took the loss Friday while facing Detroit\u2019s Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, he largely matched him pitch-for-pitch, albeit with completely different stuff. Corbin went a season-high seven innings, allowed just three hits and a pair of runs. He hadn\u2019t gone at least seven innings with as few as two runs allowed since July 9. 2023 against the Rangers.<\/p>\n

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Related:Rangers\u2019 starter Patrick Corbin impresses again, pitches Texas to first win in Sacramento<\/a><\/p>\n

The cutter has played a prominent role. He throws it about 25% of the time to right-handed hitters and has held them to a .200\/.286\/.360\/.646 slash line with it this season. On Friday, he threw it only 13 times, 12 of them to righties, but his continued growth with it makes it a constant threat and, therefore, it may be making his other pitches more effective against right-handers, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the cutter usage and being smarter with pitch selection has really helped,\u201d said Corbin, who has a 3.13 ERA in 31 innings over six starts this season. \u201cI\u2019ve always been good against lefties, but really needed to find something to get righties with more consistently. That was what I came up with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT – When the Rangers signed Patrick Corbin in the final week of spring training, it was more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3417,4,3245,149,185,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-17179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-texas-rangers","12":"tag-rangers","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-rangers","16":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114486258378121382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}