Eddie Bane, Bryan Oelkers, Dan Serafini, Travis Miller, Mark Redman, Adam Johnson, Matt Fox, Glen Perkins, Matt Garza. They are part of a fraternity of Twins pitchers Kyle Gibson doesn't want to join.
They are all starting pitchers selected by the Twins in the first round picks (including supplemental round). And none of them - NONE - won their first major league start.
Will Gibson be different?
Gibson's was scheduled to start last Tuesday in Indianapolis, his hometown, before he was called up.
``It's also the last place he pitched before he had Tommy John surgery," his father, Harold said.
We've been wound up about Gibson making it to the majors. In reality, he hasn't really taken that long to be promoted.
He was drafted in 2009 and is making his debut four years later. If it wasn't for Tommy John surgery, it's likely that he would have been in the majors last season - when the Twins really needed starters.
Gibson has pretty good stuff. He's not ace material but more front end than back end of a rotation. One Twins coach told me two years ago that Gibson was good enough to be the ace of this staff. Not King Felix ace, but Twins ace.
