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If you take a quick look at the FanGraphs’ pitching leaderboard, you’ll see 28-year old lefty Matthew Boyd of the Detroit Tigers atop that list leading all pitchers with an fWAR of 1.1. That’s after just three whole starts and all of 17.1 innings pitched. I confess: I had no idea who he was that very moment. Upon closer inspection, his three starts of 2019 have legitimately put him on everyone else’s radar.