Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward goes into detail on Corey Kluber's way back to elite form ahead of the 2020 season.
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00:00Yeah, I think so, physically, definitely.
00:03I think if you talk to him, I think he's in a good spot with his arm,
00:07with his body, everything feels as close to normal and what it used to feel like.
00:12And then you start digging into some deeper numbers, and his release height,
00:16and how his ball moves, and his velocity.
00:19Everybody's velocity kind of goes down over the years, but
00:23his stuff is very similar to what it was two or three years ago.
00:28His release height has gotten higher, which is what we wanted.
00:31He has a tendency when he drops down, his stuff gets flat.
00:34It doesn't have that late bite, it doesn't have the depth to it.
00:37So it does right now, and today was probably one of the better days that we
00:41saw with that data, which was very encouraging.
00:45And you could see by the results,
00:46a lot of these guys just come back scratching their head cuz they couldn't see it.
00:50It's like the balls, like I said, it's like two-thirds of the way to them, and
00:53then it just darts left or darts right.
00:56So it makes it really tough at bat, and I'm really pleased to see that right now.