Patrick Corbin played the first six seasons of his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The southpaw has had an up-and-down career in the desert, the ups being a pair of 14 Win seasons, the first of which saw him make the All-Star Game (2013). The lows are Tommy John Surgery, taking him out of the entire 2014 Season and the 2016 campaign, when he lost his role as a Starter. Lows are lows and highs are highs, and since 2016, Corbin returned to the All-Star Game in 2018 as a Starter, and he was third overall in the NL in both Strikeouts and SO/BB while also finishing fourth in WHIP and a fifth-place Cy Young finish. That ended Corbin’s stay in Arizona, as he left via free agency to join the Washington Nationals, where he won a World Series Ring.
With Arizona, Corbin had a 56-54 record with 897 Strikeouts.
While Chris Young was never known for having a great Batting Average, he would bring some good power numbers to the Diamondbacks lineup. In his rookie season (2007), Young went yard 32 times, swiped 27 bases, and finished fourth in Rookie of the Year balloting. He would have three other seasons with 20 or more Home Runs, and three 20-Stolen Bases years for the D-Backs, but as good as the Power-Speed combo was, he did not take that consistent leap to the next level, which was the initial expectation for a number one overall pick..
Young was named an All-Star in 2010 and was also a solid defensive presence at Centerfield for the club. Traded to the Oakland A’s in 2013, Young belted 132 Home Runs with 112 Stolen Bases and 758 Hits, though only batted .239 and had five years with over 130 Strikeouts. That knocks him down a few spots.
Zack Greinke was with the Arizona Diamondbacks for only three and a half years, but in that time, he showcased skills that helped him win the Cy Young Award as a Kansas City Royal in 2009.
Arriving in 2016 as a Free Agent, Greinke was named an All-Star in 2017, where he also finished 4th in Cy Young voting. He repeated as an All-Star in 2018, and in '17 and ’18, he ranked in the top ten in the NL in bWAR for Pitchers and WHIP. Grienke was again an All-Star in 2019, but shortly afterward, he was traded to the Houston Astros for their playoff run.
With overall Diamondback numbers of 55-29 and 683 Strikeouts, Grienke's rank is also aided by the fact that he was an excellent fielder and a good hitter for a Pitcher, who had a .230 Batting Average with Arizona.
The surgically precise professor of pitching was outstanding while a Diamondback, and Arizona fans could only imagine what it would have been like to have had the hurler for a longer time.