Do you know about Matthew Boyd? I’ll admit, I more or less didn’t, not until this year. He’s actually been around a while, throwing nearly 460 major league innings before this year. However, those innings were so nondescript as to be nearly blank: Boyd posted a 117 ERA-, 112 FIP-, and a 114 xFIP- in his career up until this season. In any of his past four seasons, he hadn’t posted an FIP- below 101 or an xFIP- below 111. His 2017 looked like an above-average year, but his homer rate regressed back to something more normal in 2018, and he started looking like a humdrum starter again.
Boyd stands between Braves and series win
