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THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers
The Saturday Survey offers readers the opportunity to weigh in on a relevant topic. So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our baseball-lovin? peeps.
Today, we center the discussion on Matthew Boyd and Daniel Norris and what the team?s plan for them may be in the immediate future.
As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons (4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!
Continuing where he left off at the end of last year, Matthew Boyd has been struggling in his starting rotation role. He is currently 0-2 with a 10+ ERA and WHIP of almost 2.
After Miguel Cabrera and Jordan Zimmermann, Boyd is the next most expensive player (not signed for just 1 year) at $5.3 million and a salary that will go up again next year. He will become a free agent at the end of 2022.
Boyd is currently 29 years old and will turn 30 before the start of the 2021 season. In terms of trade value, 2 years before becoming a free agent is generally considered to be the ideal time to trade players. It is well-known that Al Avila has been trying to trade him for the past 2 years and interested teams have said the asking price was ?too high.?
Daniel Norris continues to struggle as well and is going into his second year of pitching 3 innings with Michael Fulmer as the ?opener.? After Boyd, he is the next most expensive player on the team, will earn a salary increase via arbitration and will become a free agent after next year. His ERA is approaching 5.0 and his WHIP is also near 2.
With the crop of young, inexpensive talent starting to come up, it is expected that the Tigers will not keep these two much longer. But the organization will not receive anything of value in trading them unless they can help fix their pitching.
While Boyd and Norris try to figure things out, what is the best way to use them this season?
1. Leave Boyd as a starter and Norris as 2nd opener.
2. Make both of them openers.
3. Move both to the bullpen or opener/bullpen combo.
4. With their permission, send them to Toledo to fix things.
5. Try to trade both ASAP before values further decline.
6. Wait until the off-season when they can work with an independent coaches.
7.Not sure.
8.Other
Vote.
