Pat Combs

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Patrick Dennis Combs

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 3", Weight 200 lb.
High School Alief-Hastings High School
School Rice University, Baylor University
Debut September 5, 1989
Final Game July 7, 1992
Born October 29, 1966 in Newport, RI USA

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Pat Combs had one "golden" season-that being his first professional year. In 1989, he reached every level of professional baseball, all the way from A-ball to the Major Leagues. He showed what he could do-for the Clearwater Phillies, he went 2-1 with a 1.30 ERA in 6 games. For the Reading Phillies, he went 8-7 with a very respectable 3.38 ERA in 19 games. For the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Red Barons, he went 3-0 with a 0.37 ERA. On his final journey through the ranks that year, with the Phillies, Combs went 4-0 with a 2.09 ERA in 6 games. The baseball world was a-buzz, because people thought he was going to be great.

He was in the starting rotation the next year with the Phillies, and his season was nothing more than mediocre. He went 10-10 with 4.07 ERA, with 86 walks and only 108 strikeouts. He had gone through a sophomore slump. His once golden outlook was melting away.

Combs never quite pulled out of that slump, as his next two seasons were even worse. He had an ERA of 7.71 in his final season.

Two times in his professional career Combs walked more than he struck out. In 1991, he walked 43 and struck out 41...in 1992 he walked 12 and struck out 11.

In the 1988 Baseball World Cup, Combs went 3-0 with a 2.57 ERA, leading team USA in wins.