Detroit Tigers: Get Ready For Matthew Boyd Rumors Again In 2020
By Tyler Kotila
The Detroit Tigers opted to keep Matthew Boyd on the roster for the remainder of the 2019 season. Boyd will not be a free agent in the offseason as he is under team control through the 2024 season, but trade rumors are going to start again.
All of Detroit Tigers fans seemed to get up and arms about the fact that GM Al Avila did not deal Matthew Boyd at the 2019 MLB trade deadline. Those same fans are probably tired of hearing the trade rumors about Boyd to the Houston Astros. Or Boyd to the New York Yankees, but NEWS FLASH, they’re going to start-up again.
The way it stands, the Detroit Tigers will go into next season with little to no tradeable assets like this year (Boyd, Nicholas Castellanos, Shane Greene, Tyson Ross, Jordy Mercer, Josh Harrison, and Matt Moore) where injuries and lack of production killed off some of the names. Next year the Tigers will have almost nobody, except, the man himself: Matthew Boyd. The rumors got quite annoying, quite fast when the first rumors to break are about how high the price was set on Boyd by Avila with the rumor being that he asked the Yankees for Domingo German AND Gleyber Torres.
Currently, the Tigers front office has a decision to make regarding the Boyd situation. Do they focus on rebuilding in a sense that they make other moves and leave Boyd be? Or allow him to develop and hope to keep him around as the veteran leader of the clubhouse through the extent of this rebuild or at least until his team control runs out in 2022.
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On the contrary, they could preserve hope that Boyd’s stats keep getting better and hopefully move him between now and 2022 when team control ends. Either one is going to produce a million rumors about what may or may not happen with Boyd.
The expected scenario is this, Boyd finishes out 2019 and comes back for 2020 while the Tigers hope he retains his value, gets even better and can be traded at the 2020 deadline for a reasonable package, not Torres and German. If the package is not there, they hold onto him until 2021, same scenario, bank on his value staying the same and hopefully rising and then move him at the deadline. The cycle continues until 2022 or until the team trades him, but either way, the Boyd trade rumors are going to remain a mainstay for Tigers fans.
Obviously, banking on a pitcher to retain his value over three years is a risky move. Pitchers are a delicacy in Major League Baseball, and the Tigers should move him while his value is at his peak point, there is no promise he will keep getting better. Boyd could be at his peak this year, and it could get worse from here on out. The Tigers could trade him at the deadline next year, and he could go on to win five Cy Young Awards, a World Series Championship, and throw a perfect game, you never know.
The Tigers are in a position where they need to do the best job in building the farm system for the next five to ten years, focusing on getting a good stock of prospects that will allow them to compete, trading Boyd might be the key to this.
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No one can go inside the mind of a GM and figure out precisely what he will do, but as it stands now the Tigers are going to be in the same situation next year heading into the deadline, so its time to decide if dealing him is the best choice or hang onto him through the extent of the rebuild.