Cardinals sign veteran pitcher Kyle Gibson to one-year deal

Cardinals sign veteran pitcher Kyle Gibson to one-year deal

2023 15-game winner & Mizzou alum’s contract includes club option for 2025

November 21st, 2023

ST. LOUIS, Mo., November 21, 2023 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have signed free-agent right-handed pitcher Kyle Gibson to a one-year contract that includes a club option for 2025.

Gibson, 36, is an 11-year MLB veteran who owns a career record of 104-100 with a 4.54 ERA and 1,359 strikeouts over 1,696 innings.  He has appeared in 300 career games, starting 294 games, combined between Minnesota, Texas, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Last year in his lone season with Baltimore, Gibson went 15-9 with a 4.73 ERA and 157 strikeouts in a team-leading 33 starts for the AL East Division champions.  He ranked in the top-10 among American League pitchers in wins (T3rd), games started (T1st), innings pitched (192.0, 6th), quality starts (17, T10th) and winning percentage (.625 10th).  His 15 wins and 33 starts were both career-bests.

Named an American League All-Star in 2021, Gibson is an eight-time 10-game winner and has made at least 29 starts in nine of the last 10 seasons (excluding the shortened 2020 season).  He is one of four MLB pitchers to record 100+ strikeouts in nine of the last 10 seasons, along with Jacob deGrom, Clayton Kershaw, and Max Scherzer.

Originally selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 2009 MLB Draft out of the University of Missouri, the 6’6” native of Greenfield, Indiana spent his first seven seasons in the Twin Cities compiling a 67-68 record.  After signing with the Texas Rangers prior to the 2020 season, Gibson was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies at the trade deadline in 2021.  He has appeared in four career postseason games, with three of those appearances coming over the last two seasons with Philadelphia (2022 NLCS and World Series) and Baltimore (2023 ALDS).

Gibson is a three-time Roberto Clemente Award nominee and was the recipient of the 2017 Carl R. Pohlad Community Service Award, selected by the Minnesota Twins Community Fund Board of Directors.  He also serves as the Vice President of former Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright’s Big League Impact charitable foundation.