{"id":662340,"date":"2026-04-04T06:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:09:46","slug":"blue-jays-adding-patrick-corbin-on-one-year-1-million-contract-to-bolster-pitching-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662340\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays adding Patrick Corbin on one-year, $1 million contract to bolster pitching depth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

Patrick Corbin #46 of the Texas Rangers pitches during a game against the Houston Astros at Globe Life Field on September 7, 2025 in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays are bringing in some much-needed pitching depth.<\/p>\n

Toronto signed veteran Patrick Corbin to a $1 million deal, according to The Athletic\u2019s Mitch Bannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corbin, 36, posted a 4.40 ERA across 31 appearances (30 starts) for the Rangers in 2025.<\/p>\n

He will report to the Blue Jays\u2019 Single-A affiliate, although it appears he could be on the big league roster soon.<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

Patrick Corbin of the Texas Rangers throws a pitch during the fourth inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on September 28, 2025 in Cleveland, Ohio. Diamond Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sportsnet\u2019s Ben Nicholson-Smith reported<\/a> that Corbin has been \u201cworking out extensively\u201d and is already tossing 80 pitches during bullpen sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPossible he needs just a couple minor-league starts,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The Corbin addition comes as Toronto deals with a handful of injuries to its starting rotation during the early going of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, starter Cody Ponce went down with an ACL injury<\/a>, which is expected to sideline him for a significant amount of time.<\/p>\n

The team had already been dealing with injured list stints for Shane Bieber, Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos and Trey Yesavage.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays will hope they can get something closer to the Corbin of old.<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

Patrick Corbin of the Texas Rangers pitches during a game against the Houston Astros at Globe Life Field on September 7, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. Getty Images<\/p>\n

After making two All-Star teams and receiving Cy Young votes in two different times through the first seven seasons, Corbin\u2019s big league career took a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n

Since 2020, Corbin has a 5.41 ERA, which is the highest among pitchers with at least 600 innings on the mound over that stretch.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s remained a workhorse, though, tossing at least 150 innings in each of the past five seasons.<\/p>\n

Despite the injuries, the Blue Jays are 4-3 through the first week of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Corbin #46 of the Texas Rangers pitches during a game against the Houston Astros at Globe Life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,135,51,54086,54,387,4,444,1271,69,1414,282,70,2553,5196],"class_list":{"0":"post-662340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-guardians","13":"tag-cody-ponce","14":"tag-houston-astros","15":"tag-jose-berrios","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-patrick-corbin","18":"tag-shane-bieber","19":"tag-texas-rangers","20":"tag-the-blue-jays","21":"tag-toronto","22":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","23":"tag-torontobluejays","24":"tag-trey-yesavage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344956330143611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662340","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=662340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}