{"id":57131,"date":"2022-12-03T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57131"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:13:44","slug":"kyle-gibson-baltimore-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/03\/kyle-gibson-baltimore-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Gibson, Orioles Reach One-Year Contract Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Gibson and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/09\/05\/bo-bichette-is-the-first-shortstop-with-6-hits-and-3-home-runs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> have reached a deal on a one-year contract, sources telling ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. The right-hander spent a season and a half with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/11\/26\/jt-realmuto-stolen-bases\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>, who acquired him from the Texas Rangers in July 2021. In 42 starts, Gibson was 14-14 with a 5.06 ERA with two scoreless relief appearances in this year&#8217;s postseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Right-hander Kyle Gibson and the Baltimore Orioles are in agreement on a contract, pending physical, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles have targeted pitching this winter, and the 35-year-old Gibson is the first domino. They should be in play for other arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1599094746399604737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Kyle Gibson Heads to the AL East<\/h2>\n<p>While Gibson wasn&#8217;t that successful during his Phillies tenure, he maintained consistency by throwing five to six innings per start. In addition, he stayed healthy to complement a rotation that includes Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler. Last season, Gibson was second on the Phillies rotation with 31 starts and went 10-8 with a 5.05 ERA. He allowed 24 home runs, the fourth-most in the National League.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, he was an average pitcher for someone who was making $7.67 million. However, one other team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, checked in on the free agent. Pirates general manager Ben Cherington had a video call with the 35-year-old but ultimately went with Baltimore instead. Gibson is a workhorse who could help the Orioles fill a back-of-rotation spot.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, he mostly threw sinkers. But this year, his usage of that pitch hit a career-low 28 percent as he relied more on his cutter and slider. His cutter was thrown just 21.3 percent of the time, the fifth-highest rate in the National League. It&#8217;s a pitch that has become a bigger part of his arsenal, producing a 37 percent ground ball rate with a 25 percent strike\/whiff rate.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson made his first lone All-Star appearance in 2021 before the Rangers-Phillies trade. He has an 89-91 record with a 4.52 ERA in 10 major league seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Rangers and Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"xDRo3JmxQYBh0R-nVhxF6Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1234383693\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'xDRo3JmxQYBh0R-nVhxF6Q',sig:'XXa8cGVA977Wpr2ZZIpzle31KodGcg7fVs7R0SoR4TE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1234383693',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gibsoky01,gibson004kyl&amp;search=Kyle+Gibson&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Gibson<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nolaaa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Nola<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wheelza01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Wheeler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Gibson and the Baltimore Orioles have reached a deal on a one-year contract, sources telling ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. The right-hander spent a season and a half with the Philadelphia Phillies, who acquired him from the Texas Rangers in July 2021. In 42 starts, Gibson was 14-14 with a 5.06 ERA with two scoreless relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":57132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1071,35],"tags":[1069,3228,178,683],"class_list":["post-57131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-nola","tag-kyle-gibson","tag-nl-east","tag-zack-wheeler"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}