Gibson Named Twins Minor League Pitcher of the Year
9/27/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Sept. 27, 2010
The Minnesota Twins announced today that former Mizzou pitcher Kyle Gibson has been named the 2010 Jim Rantz Award winner as the Twins' Minor League Pitcher of the Year.
Gibson,who pitched at MU from 2007-09, combined to go 11-6, 2.96 ERA (152.0 ip, 50 er) with 39 walks and 126 strikeouts in 26 starts between Single-A Ft. Myers, Double-A New Britain and Triple-A Rochester this season. He held opponents to a .242 (136-for-563) batting average.
The right-hander went 5-0 with a 1.62 ERA (39.2 ip, 7 er) with 35 strikeouts in May and was named the Twins Minor League Pitcher of the Month. Gibson was also named the Twins Minor League Pitcher of the Week for April 24-May 1, after going 1-0 with a 0.64 ERA (14.0, 1 ip), including a complete-game one-hitter on April 29 at Jupiter.
The 6-foot-6, 210-pounder was named Florida State League Player of the Week for May 2 and was also named to the 2010 Eastern League All-Star team. Coming into the 2010 season, Gibson was rated as the top pitching prospect (third best prospect overall) and as having the best slider in the Twins organization by Baseball America. He was drafted by the Twins in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 2009 First-Year Player draft out of the University of Missouri.
Gibson, along with the Twins other 2010 award winners, will be recognized at the Sixth Annual Diamond Awards dinner, which will be held on Thursday, January 27, 2010, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Target Field.
