Earlier this week, NBC Sports Philadelphia published an article by Corey Seidman about Kyle Gibson, entitled “In a month of peaks and valleys, one constant for the Phillies has been the new guy.” It was a timely article, coming the morning after Gibson confused Padres hitters over eight innings en route to a 7-4 Phillies win.
I have to disagree with the word “constant”, since Kyle Gibson was pretty awful on August 11 in Los Angeles (4.1 IP, 6 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 1 HR). Seidman tried to side-step this by only looking at Gibson’s “starts” (his appearance on 08/11 was technically a relief appearance), but that feels a bit like cherry-picking to me.