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I see it as much closer than others seem to:
Gossin is a 4 pitch pitcher and Tyner a 3 pitch pitcher. That nullifies Tyner's endurance edge, because the game really seems to give a bigger penalty each time through the lineup if you have fewer pitches. If Gossin had Tyner's endurance I'd think he was way ahead, because he could pitch a lot deeper into games. He can't because he doesn't have the stamina though, but he'd just need better stamina to be clearly better because....
While Gossin's control will probably never fully develop, he's also an extreme groundball pitcher, so it just has to become barely passable, a decent amount of the extra walks given up erased by double plays.
All this is less true if your game is in an earlier era than modern day (by that I mean even 20-25 years ago), the earlier the less so, but in modern day baseball movement/groundball tendency are more important because it's so much of a game of home runs (the way you might place low value on those if playing in 1910).
It's still very close to me though, but only because Gossin doesn't have the stamina to make full use of being a 4 pitch pitcher.
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