Remember when Kyle Gibson was 6-5 with a 3.25 ERA in mid-June?
Or, at the very least, do you remember when Gibson was 11-9 with a 3.93 ERA less than a month ago?
And remember how there were outings where Gibson was simply unhittable, which made up for the (fewer) times he was shelled and knocked out of a game early?
Well, what was a promising season has turned to rubble. Maybe it's not a total loss since we can still see the makings of a good pitcher in there, but if you were thinking a month ago that Gibson had the makings of a solid mid-rotation pitcher for years to come, you might be adjusting that expectation now.
Sure, this is still just his first full season. But in his last five starts, he's allowed 22 ER in 25 innings — including three innings, 7 ER in the brutal first game of a doubleheader Thursday — and watched his ERA bloat up to 4.58.
He has an incredible eight starts this season of at least 6 innings and zero earned runs allowed. But bad Gibson has crept up more and more as the season has gone on, to the point that you have to wonder exactly where Gibson fits into the 2015 plans.
