Closer Shane Greene is now an Atlanta Brave and outfielder Nicholas Castellanos is now a Chicago Cub.
And Matthew Boyd is still a Detroit Tiger.
Many reports over the last few weeks indicated that Tigers general manager Al Avila was shopping his young starter and asking for a hefty price. Avila said Wednesday he believes the amount of attention a potential Boyd deal garnered in the media was a bit overstated or overplayed.
"It’s not that I took him off or anything like that. There was nothing even close, to tell you the truth, to coming across," Avila said on a conference call Wednesday. "As a matter of fact, before the team even left on this road trip, I talked to Matt Boyd and I told him that I didn’t feel there was going to be a trade made."
Avila says in his gut and in his heart, he didn't think there was a trade brewing that would see Boyd leave Detroit. Boyd (6-8, 3.94 ERA), despite only posting one win across 10 starts since the beginning of June and not turning in a scoreless outing since late May had been the subject of trade speculation all of July. That's largely in part to a high strikeout rate for a solid left-handed starter. Boyd ranks inside the top 10 in strikeouts (178) and currently sits third in Ks per nine innings.
"Obviously, it was reported that we were asking for a lot of things, but at the end of the day, we think highly of Matt Boyd," Avila said on the Fox Sports Detroit broadcast of Wednesday's win over the Angels. "Obviously, he’s a great clubhouse presence. He’s had so far a great year, but I think all the information that was going around as far as who was interested and who was coming after him and all that, I think that was a little bit more overstated than the actual situation."