Detroit – The phrase, “I never dreamed I would…” isn’t in Matthew Boyd’s vocabulary. If he sees something he wants, he doesn’t just dream it, he believes he will achieve it.
Like, for example, being the Opening Day starter for a Major League Baseball team.
“I remember the days of going to watch Jamie Moyer and Freddie Garcia and Felix Hernandez in Seattle and just thinking how much fun it would be to do that one day and knowing I would do it someday,” he said Sunday after the Tigers announced the worst-kept secret in baseball – that Boyd would indeed be the Tigers’ starter Friday in the season opener in Cincinnati.