Kyle Gibson » Statistics » Pitching. Profile: Maybe it's just his team - - the Twins often espouse pitching to contact, and Kyle Gibson is a product of their system. Or maybe it's his fastballs - - they don't get great whiff rates. Whatever it is, Gibson hasn't yet struck out batters at a major league average rate.

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Maybe that's not remarkable, plenty of other pitchers have chosen grounders over strikeouts, especially in that organization. Watch Alex &Amp; Eve Download Full. But what makes it remarkable in the case of Gibson is that he has the tools to get strikeouts. His slider gets whiffs a fifth of the time, which is top twenty for a starter. His curve gets average whiffs, and the changeup is above- average. The sinker is average. It's enough to get average strikeouts, if he just upped the usage of his whiffier stuff. The good news is that he's doing it, slowly, cutting his fastball usage incrementally in each year, and upping his K rate accordingly.

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The bad news is that there is some ways to go still - - he's been bottom ten in strikeout rate among qualified starters - - and he might not be in the right environment to do it. Anyway, you might notice a slightly suppressed batting average on balls in play over the last two years. Don't consider it too fluky. Research shows that pitchers with elite ground- ball rates on one or two of their pitches can suppress ball in play results even with more muted overall ground ball rates. And Gibson gets 6.

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Worst case scenario, he basically repeats his work. Best case, he finds a way to mix the whiffs and grounders and takes another step forward.

It wouldn't be his stuff, because there's enough in that slider, change, and curve to get more whiffs. In the end, he's a high- floor guy with a whiff of upside, and the deeper your league gets, the more that sort of pitcher is valuable.