Detroit — Matthew Boyd never was going to hold a grudge against the Tigers. That’s just not in his DNA. Sure, the Tigers rather unceremoniously non-tendered him before last season, sending him into free agency while he was rehabbing from flexor tendon surgery.
Kind of cold after Boyd had given his heart and soul to the club for the better part of seven seasons and was the unquestioned leader of the pitching staff. A lesser person, shoot, a normal person would at least have been a little salty about it.
Not Boyd. He vowed when he left that whoever he pitched for next was going to get the best version of himself.