Matthew Boyd was a beginning pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 2015-21
After one season with the Seattle Mariners, he’s again within the Tigers‘ rotation
The left-hander will make his first begin at Detroit’s Comerica Park since Aug. 29, 2021, on Sunday within the finale of a three-game collection towards the Boston Purple Sox
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Boyd, who’s 0-0 with a 4.15 ERA this season, underwent surgical procedure that September to restore the flexor tendon in his left arm. He signed with San Francisco as a free agent after the 2021 season however was traded to Seattle earlier than his season debut. He made 10 reduction appearances for the Mariners, going 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA in 13 1/3 innings.
He re-signed with Detroit throughout the offseason on a one-year, $10 million contract.
“We love Matt Boyd,” supervisor A.J. Hinch stated. “Despite the fact that he was solely a 12 months away, it felt like a very long time since he had been again. It is a completely different group and completely different group than it was when he was a Tiger beforehand.”
The Tigers introduced again Boyd to supply one other veteran within the rotation. In his season debut, Boyd allowed two runs in 4 1/3 innings at Houston on Monday
“He is obtained actual weapons,” Hinch stated. “He can get each side (lefties and righties) out. The swing and miss within the spring was actually good. He is one other starter than we’re attempting to ramp into the season a tick gradual to protect the transition from his damage to the bullpen and again to the rotation. However I really feel good the day he pitches.”
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Boyd is 2-2 with a 5.18 ERA in 5 profession begins towards Boston.
The Purple Sox will counter on Sunday with right-hander Kutter Crawford (0-1, 15.75 ERA), who was battered in his season debut by Pittsburgh on Monday, giving up seven runs in 4 innings
“I assumed it was fairly terrible,” Crawford stated. “Bodily I felt good, however simply did not command the ball like I must. Did not execute pitches once I wanted to. … Simply not a very good efficiency on my half.”
Crawford has thrown solely one-third of an inning in his profession towards the Tigers, giving up three runs and three hits
The Purple Sox have received the primary two video games of this collection, due to the large bats of Rafael Devers and Adam Duvall. Devers has three homers within the collection, together with a pair on Saturday in a 14-5 Boston romp. Devers hit his fifth profession grand slam to focus on a six-run second inning, and Duvall added a pair of doubles within the recreation
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Duvall is batting .483 with 4 homers and 14 RBIs this season.
“That is my job, simply to slug and drive runners in,” stated Duvall, who signed a one-year, $7 million contract with Boston as a free agent throughout the offseason. “So it feels good to come back in and do your job. We had some additional base hits at this time, and we have simply obtained to maintain the bats rolling.”
Detroit began a left-hander, Joey Wentz, on Saturday, so Purple Sox supervisor Alex Cora will use an identical lineup towards Boyd for the collection finale. He has Rob Refsnyder, who drove in two runs on Saturday, within the leadoff spot towards lefties
“We have to combine and match with lefties,” Cora stated. “We have a whole lot of them developing — one tomorrow, three in Tampa and three extra towards the Angels. We have simply obtained to seek out methods to combine and match, and it begins with Ref. You set Ref within the leadoff spot in entrance of these (sluggers) and he will do every little thing potential to get on base.”
People around the world ring in the winter solstice with ancient traditions
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(CBS DETROIT) — The Winter Solstice arrives this weekend and, with that, so too does the season of winter. The Winter Solstice is our second solstice of the year, marking the shortest day, while the Summer Solstice marks the longest.
This is different from an equinox, of which we have two (vernal in the spring and autumnal in the fall) where the day is split evenly between daylight and night.
The solstice is at 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, giving us an almost full day of winter to kick things off. Sunrise is at 7:58 a.m., with solar noon not long after at 12:30 p.m.
Sunset arrives at 5:02 p.m., leaving us with a very short Saturday this weekend.
Dec. 20 and 21 both have daylight lengths of 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 46 seconds. However, on the 21st there is actually a daylight difference of less than 1 second compared to the 20th.
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Despite these numbers, our latest sunrise and earliest sunset do not arrive on the winter solstice. Our latest sunrise is 8:01 a.m., which occurs every day from Dec. 30 through Jan. 7.
Our earliest sunset is 4:59 p.m., which occurs from Dec. 4 through Dec. 13.
In contrast, our earliest sunrise is 5:54 a.m. That occurs from June 13-16, while the latest sunset is 9:13 p.m., from June 25-28.
No matter what, winter is here, and we’ve already had a fewtastes of snow. As we enter our winter months, it will be a good idea to have those shovels handy.
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Ahmad Bajjey
Ahmad Bajjey is a CBS Detroit meteorologist. Coming to CBS Detroit is a return home after growing up in Dearborn where his family still lives. He has spent the past 9 1/2 years in Flint as a meteorologist and most recently as chief meteorologist for WEYI and WSMH.
Detroit Pistons (11-17, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (14-12, ninth in the Western Conference)
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BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Pistons visit the Phoenix Suns in a non-conference matchup.
The Suns are 9-5 on their home court. Phoenix has a 3-6 record in games decided by 10 or more points.
The Pistons have gone 6-9 away from home. Detroit is eighth in the league with 45.3 rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren averaging 9.1.
The Suns are shooting 47.2% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 46.7% the Pistons allow to opponents. The Pistons are shooting 46.2% from the field, 0.7% lower than the 46.9% the Suns’ opponents have shot this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Devin Booker is averaging 25.1 points and 6.4 assists for the Suns.
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Jaden Ivey is scoring 17.3 points per game and averaging 4.1 rebounds for the Pistons.
LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 5-5, averaging 116.7 points, 42.5 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points per game.
Pistons: 4-6, averaging 112.9 points, 41.8 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 7.9 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.0 points.
INJURIES: Suns: Collin Gillespie: day to day (ankle).
Pistons: Isaiah Stewart: day to day (knee), Jaden Ivey: day to day (knee).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
The Detroit Tigers had success in a 2024 season that saw an epic playoff run from 9.5 games back in the Wild Card race in late August to coming within just one game of their first ALCS appearance in a decade, and a ton of that was due to contributions from young players.
But just because the fruits of the rebuild finally started to bear this season doesn’t mean the Tigers don’t still have a ton of young studs who haven’t even seen the Major League game yet. Though some has obviously been lost via trades and graduation to the pros over the years, Detroit still boasts one of the best farm systems in all of baseball.
From guys like Max Clark to Bryce Rainer to the soon-to-be star Jackson Jobe, there is certainly some young and exciting talent in the organization. That being said, the most productive of the bunch this season in the minor leagues took some people by surprise this season and seems to be well ahead of schedule. In their ranking of every team’s most productive farm system player in 2024, MLB.com’s article named middle infielder Kevin McGonigle as the Tigers’ most impressive.
“The Tigers were enthused to add McGonigle with the No. 37 overall pick in ’23 and over-the-moon with his early results in the Minors, particularly when it came to his plate discipline,” the article stated. “The left-handed-hitting middle infielder walked 46 times while striking out only 28 in 74 games between Single-A and High-A before suffering a season-ending right hamate fracture. His K/BB ratio was best among 1,081 Minor Leaguers who got at least 300 plate appearances in ’24.”
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There’s no question as to whether or not McGonigle is ahead of schedule, he certainly is. Just how quickly he can get to the majors is obviously the next question, but he has yet to play in Double-A to this point. Nonetheless, McGonigle has put up wildly impressive OPS numbers of .863 and .853 during his two seasons from rookie ball through High-A.
With only 14 games of High-A ball experience under his belt. it will likely be a couple of years before he’s ready to make contributions at the MLB level. But McGonigle has clearly established himself as a name to closely monitor as he begins to climb the ranks and establish himself as a key piece of the future of the Detroit Tigers.
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