LAKELAND, Fla. -- Detroit Tigers pitching coach Rich Dubee noticed Matt Boyd throw at a lower arm slot than usual during a game in August and immediately asked him about it.
Dubee wanted Boyd to consider throwing at the lower arm slot permanently, and it worked wonders for him the rest of the season.
“We were playing the Mets, and I was tired later in that outing and I dropped down to Curtis Granderson,” Boyd recalled this morning at Joker Marchant Stadium. “And I snapped off a really good breaking ball and a fastball that was, like, 92.