(It’s better) to be in the room working out with other guys who are in the same position.”During the offseason, Kluber visits the Hudson facility twice a week for his training regimen, throwing program and soft-tissue work with Howard. Only Scherzer — another Cressey client who trains five days a week at the Florida facility — has thrown more innings, started more games or won more than Kluber (see statistics above), but no one can match Kluber’s 17 complete games and only Clayton Kershaw has tossed more than his seven shutouts over that time.That uncommon durability and success is directly related to the dedicated work in the gym on an offseason day like this.“The whole point of the offseason training to me is to build that baseline for you so that you’re in a good spot to hopefully log innings and stay strong through the course of the season,” Kluber said. But that reputation, Cressey says, belies Kluber’s true nature as someone quick to engage in conversation, pose for photos and even joke around with the staff about pranking the arriving interns.So, what advice would Kluber impart to high schoolers brave enough to ask?“Do things the right way. They run Each Wednesday home game, the couple hosts a child patient. “It’s a lot of fun to come in and train every day. Corey Kluber’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know He grew up here and it was the team he grew up watching,” Kluber’s parents told the site they record all of his games. Kluber has won two Cy Young Awards, including in 2017 after his first offseason in Massachusetts. In September 2015, he moved to Dallas for a sales job but started training Drew VerHagen of the Detroit Tigers on the side. The Red Wedding was intense. He does a series of three pre-throw drills with weighted baseballs into a padded black wall, including half-kneeling reverse throws.Then Kluber goes through a strict progression of throwing two-seam fastballs: 10 throws at 45 feet, 15 throws at 60 feet, 15 throws at 90 feet, five throws at 120 feet, then 10 more shorter throws from 60 feet to focus on his gloveside.“At this point in time,” Kluber said, “you’re just trying to bring around that muscle memory of where you want your arm slot to be, your mechanics, your release point, things like that, just to get your body used to being back to throwing.“Once you build that arm strength and all that stuff kind of comes back to you, then you start focusing more on fine-tuning stuff and actually making pitches.”Wonders’ offseason program calls for Kluber to start throwing change-ups in Week 4 and to begin spinning breaking balls at the end of Week 5.“He’s going to build up his arm resiliency first,” Wonders said. Possible User Ids 10****@google . “I also met my wife, Amanda, there and we have two beautiful kids.
“He’s got to build back up to that. That’s why it’s been a good fit.”So moving to Massachusetts also meant moving closer to Cressey headquarters in Hudson.“I think it’s a convenience,” Kluber said, “but I wouldn’t say that it influenced our decision.”Now, though, living just 20 miles from the CSP facility, Kluber takes advantage of the entire Cressey experience, working with a team of professionals. When Kluber called his parents to tell them he had been traded to the Indians, his father, Jim, didn’t believe the news. But save for the chiseled nature of the 6-foot-4, 215-pound physical specimen — and the unmistakable “pop” of elite fastball hitting catcher’s mitt — they might not even know he’s a pro athlete, let alone the most durable and dominant pitcher in the American League.Kluber, who turns 33 in April, has been living and training in the Bay State for the past three offseasons, since shortly after he pitched the Cleveland Indians to the brink of a championship, starting Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.His wife, Amanda, grew up in Winchester, Mass. I love sitting down and talking with him about what he wants in his throwing program and helping him prepare.”Wonders writes out Kluber’s entire offseason throwing program — eight weeks total until the start of spring training. After living in Florida in the offseasons, Corey and Amanda opted to move their growing family back to her hometown of Winchester to raise their children — daughters Kendall and Kennedy, and son Camden, who also arrived shortly after the 2016 World Series.“This is where we wanted to raise our family, and our kids were at the point where they were about to start school, so that was the main reason we decided to move,” Kluber said.
They met at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., in 2006 and were married in 2010.