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Matthew Boyd

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 223 lb
Number: #16

Born: February 2, 1991 in Mercer Island, WA, United States
MLB debut: June 27, 2015
Drafted: 2012, round 13
College: Oregon State
High school: Eastside Catholic
Salary, 2026: $17M

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dbWAR: 12.8
IP: 126.2
ERA: 3.91
FIP: 4.22
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 101

Matthew Boyd is a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he struck out 96 batters over 126.2 innings across 22 appearances, 22 of them starts, going 10-5. His ERA of 3.91 was 6.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 9th of 16 on his team, and 249th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.22 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.3% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.5%. His 1.5 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.

FIP4.22

K/96.8

WHIP1.21

WAR1.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CHC	22	22	126.2	10	5	114	55	96	39	3.91	4.22	1.21	6.8	2.8	93	101	1.5
2025	CHC	31	31	179.2	14	8	154	64	154	42	3.21	3.65	1.09	7.7	2.1	77	88	3.2
2024	CLE	8	8	39.2	2	2	32	12	46	13	2.72	3.29	1.13	10.4	2.9	67	81	0.9
2023	DET	15	15	71.0	5	5	69	43	73	25	5.45	4.35	1.32	9.3	3.2	126	101	0.9
2022	SEA	10	0	13.1	2	0	5	2	13	8	1.35	3.19	0.97	8.8	5.4	34	80	0.2
2021	DET	15	15	78.2	3	8	77	34	67	23	3.89	4.10	1.27	7.7	2.6	91	96	1.1
2020	DET	12	12	60.1	3	7	67	45	60	22	6.71	5.78	1.48	9.0	3.3	151	130	-0.2
2019	DET	32	32	185.1	9	12	178	94	238	50	4.56	4.32	1.23	11.6	2.4	101	96	2.8
2018	DET	31	31	170.1	9	13	146	83	159	51	4.39	4.45	1.16	8.4	2.7	106	107	1.4
2017	DET	26	25	135.0	6	11	157	79	110	53	5.27	4.51	1.56	7.3	3.5	121	103	1.5
2016	DET	20	18	97.1	6	5	97	49	82	29	4.53	4.75	1.29	7.6	2.7	108	113	0.5
2015	DET/TOR	13	12	57.1	1	6	71	48	43	20	7.53	6.59	1.59	6.8	3.1	190	166	-1.2

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	DET	2	5	1	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.000	.500	20.0%	20.0%	.400	+0.3	163	0.1
2019	DET	1	2	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.436	+0.2	172	0.0
2018	DET	2	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-0.0
2017	DET	2	3	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.291	-0.1	74	0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Matthew Boyd's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 29	1	1	4.0	1	5	4	3	1	4	9.00	1.50	9.0
2025 Post	CHC	Postseason total	3	3	9.2	1	10	3	0	5	9	2.79	1.55	8.4
		Wild Card	1	1	4.1	0	4	1	0	1	2	2.08	1.15	4.2
		NLDS	2	2	5.1	1	6	2	0	4	7	3.38	1.88	11.8
2024 Post	CLE	Postseason total	3	3	11.2	0	7	1	0	6	14	0.77	1.11	10.8
		ALDS	2	2	6.2	0	5	0	0	3	10	0.00	1.20	13.5
		ALCS	1	1	5.0	0	2	1	0	3	4	1.80	1.00	7.2
2022 Post	SEA	ALDS	1	0	0.1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0.00	6.00	0.0
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	8	7	25.2	2	23	8	3	13	27	2.81	1.40	9.5

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	134	117	26	1	16	26	.222	.321	.265	.279	19.4%
vs RHB	386	356	88	14	23	70	.247	.304	.407	.314	18.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Matthew Boyd throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	44.3%	867	92.8	2,305	48.8%	15.4%	213	.291	.822
Changeup	27.9%	546	78.7	1,776	45.4%	26.9%	157	.229	.634
Slider	14.3%	279	83.1	2,537	41.2%	37.0%	66	.152	.434
Curveball	12.4%	242	73.1	2,422	44.6%	25.0%	33	.152	.486
Sinker	1.2%	23	92.1	2,309	47.8%	12.5%	6	—	—

Matthew Boyd's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.