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October Confidential: Indians
- Updated: October 5, 2016
How do you beat the Indians? MLB.com asked rival players from around Major League Baseball to offer an inside look at how best to face the American League Central champions.
Corey Kluber “Aggressive. Comes right at you, here it is, try to hit it. Really good sinker, good cutter, good breaking ball. Three or four pitches, the mix that he can throw in any count. Probably one of the better pitchers in the AL. It depends on the count, but try to go away. Try to hit the ball between the [shortstop and second baseman] early. Sometimes he will throw offspeed late in the count, even if he’s down in the count 2-0 or 3-1. He might try to get you to make a dumb mistake. If the count and the timing presents itself, I’ll try to pull him every now and then. But for the most part, I try to stick with a nice approach away.”– AL Central outfielder
“He loves his cutter. He has one of the best right-handed sliders in the game. He loves, loves, loves back-dooring the two-seamer. It seems like each and every year it gets better, with more sink and more run. You see highlights of it [starting] way off the plate and coming back over. He hardly ever comes in. A lot of heaters but also loves that cutter/slider about 88-89 mph.”– AL Central infielder
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Trevor Bauer “He’s been able to spot up more lately in his starts. [But] for the majority of his outings, it’s been effectively wild. So you really need to almost make sure you sit one spot, one speed and when you get that pitch, don’t miss it. With a guy being effectively wild like that, he can get you off your game in a hurry. You …
