Lefty Matthew Boyd hasn’t pitched as many as 79 innings in a season since 2019 with the Tigers, but the Cubs are hoping his performance at the end of last year can be stretched over a much larger sample. From the sounds of it, the team is hoping the 34-year-old (in February) can bounce back in 2025 to work almost as many frames as he’s tallied over the last three seasons combined (124). Speaking with 670 The Score’s Mully & Haugh Wednesday morning, pitching coach Tommy Hottovy laid out some of the Cubs’ thoughts on their new southpaw
“There’s definitely some risk/reward there,” Hottovy said of the oft-injured Boyd, “Just with the fact of his innings limits over the last three to four years.