We are only three starts into Matthew Boyd’s 2019 season, but between some very noticeable changes he made in 2018 and an absolutely sky-high strikeout rate to start the current year, it doesn’t feel like a stretch to say that there is something very real going on with the 28-year-old lefthander.
The only question left at this point is: how real? We can safely say that Boyd will not continue to strike out 40 percent of the batters he faces this year, and his FIP will eventually move north of 1999 Pedro Martinez.