{"id":563871,"date":"2026-02-10T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:17:47","slug":"2026-chicago-cubs-player-profiles-matthew-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563871\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Chicago Cubs player profiles: Matthew Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The starters are presented in alphabetical order, and, as always, are written in a No. 2 pencil. Today we\u2019re looking at Matthew Boyd<\/a>, who had the best year of his career in 2025, throwing 179.2 innings and going 14-8 with a 3.21 ERA and 1.091 WHIP, though he did in fact look gassed during the playoffs and didn\u2019t fare as well.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old lefty will venture into the 2026 season on the strength of the 2.5 bWAR (3.4 fWAR) he amassed during that previous season, where he\u2019s likely to throw a few less innings and occupy a spot from 1-4 in the everyday rotation. To expect numbers like 2025 would be folly\u2026 but something between that and his late-teens work in Detroit would be fine. Win 10-11 games, throw 160+ innings, hurl @8 K\/9, keep the team in the game.<\/p>\n

Boyd and Taillon are probably 4-5, with Cabrera, Imanaga, Horton or some other combination of the three at the top, awaiting the return of Justin Steele. But Craig Counsell may have other ideas.<\/p>\n

Boyd does have an option for 2027, with a $2 million buyout. Given his age and high odds of regression or injury, that\u2019s a good deal. We\u2019ll see if it\u2019s time to roll the dice by season\u2019s end. He doesn\u2019t really have a lot of mileage on that arm and might be good for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The starters are presented in alphabetical order, and, as always, are written in a No. 2 pencil. Today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,70392,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-563871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-player-profiles","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116045588637467747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}