CLEVELAND, Ohio - Reducing the speed limit for Corey Kluber in spring training seems more like a yellow light than a red flag.
Kluber not only pitched 215 innings in the regular season in 2016 (after 222 and 235 the previous two seasons), he threw another 34 innings in the postseason.
Minus Danny Salazar and Carlos Carrasco, the Indians leaned heavily on Kluber in their chase of a World Series title. Three times he pitched on short rest.
Obviously Kluber's offseason didn't begin as early as usual.
"If he's not ready for Game 1, we can adjust," manager Terry Francona told reporters in Goodyear, Arizona.