Here are two things that do not seem like they can both be true, but are both true:
- Matt Boyd is pretty good this year
- Matt Boyd is very, very bad third time through the order
I think the positive of knowing that these two things are both true is that A.J. Hinch does seem to have realized it as well, because he used Boyd just enough in this game to keep things from getting too ugly (benefited a great deal but a Tigers offense that was actually awake).