Kyle Gibson, who pitched 13 seasons in the majors for five teams and was an All-Star in 2021, announced his retirement Thursday on the \u201cServing It Up\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n
Gibson was the Minnesota Twins\u2019 first-round pick in 2009 after starring at the University of Missouri, but his road to the big leagues was delayed by Tommy John surgery as a Triple-A prospect in 2011.<\/p>\n
He debuted for the Twins two years later, at age 25, and spent seven seasons in Minnesota. Relying heavily on his sinker to induce grounders and limit homers, Gibson had a 67-68 record and 4.52 ERA for the Twins while gaining a reputation as a durable innings-eater and well-respected clubhouse presence.<\/p>\n
After leaving the Twins in 2019 as a free agent, Gibson went on to pitch for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals and Orioles again, finishing his career with a 112-111 record and 4.60 ERA in 1,878 innings while earning over $70 million.<\/p>\n
Gibson struggled mightily in four starts for the Orioles this season, going 0-3 with a 16.78 ERA. Released from a one-year, $5.25 million contract in mid-May, he signed a minor-league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays but was unable to get back to the majors at age 37.<\/p>\n
Max Scherzer is the only MLB pitcher to make more starts (329) than Gibson (328) since 2013, and Gibson also logged the seventh-most innings among all pitchers during that time.<\/p>\n
(Photo of Kyle Gibson pitching in Game 1 of the 2019 ALDS: Emilee Chinn \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Gibson, who pitched 13 seasons in the majors for five teams and was an All-Star in 2021,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1276,1287,1266,2083,62,3692,1278,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-texas-rangers","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114871196967162567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}