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":2,"featured_media":17587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[371,2326,363,480,99,1231,2330],"class_list":["post-17586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}