The highlight of Tyler Gilbert’s 2023 season almost certainly came as part of the 25th anniversary festivities, when he got his picture taken with Immaculate Grid star Edwin Jackson and Super Bowl/rock concert photographer Randy Johnson.
But that doesn’t mean that his season was terrible. In fact, it seems the fans were quite unfair by rating him so lowly; of the players to receive a poorer rating, only Nabil Crismatt was over replacement level according to bWAR, and none were according to fWAR. Gilbert was exactly replacement level according to Baseball Reference, and worth 0.2 wins according to Fangraphs.