Corey Kluber
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Kluber with the Cleveland Indians
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Born: April 10, 1986 Birmingham, Alabama |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 1, 2011, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 58–44 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.33 | ||
| Strikeouts | 936 | ||
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Corey Scott Kluber (born April 10, 1986), nicknamed "Klubot", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2011.
After playing high school baseball for Coppell High School in Coppell, Texas, and collegiately for Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, Kluber was drafted by the San Diego Padres in 2007, and traded to the Indians in 2010. Kluber established himself in the Indians' starting rotation in 2013. He led the American League in wins and won the American League Cy Young Award in 2014. Kluber signed a 5-year, $38.5 million contract extension with the Indians in April 2015. He was named an American League All-Star for the first time in 2016.
Kluber attended Coppell High School in Coppell, Texas. While pitching for the school's baseball team and amid overuse by his high school coach, Don English, Kluber developed a stress fracture in his elbow, requiring surgery and the insertion of two screws. He went unselected in the 2004 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft.
Coaches at Stetson University became aware of Kluber when he pitched at the World Wood Bat Championships in Jupiter, Florida, where his parents owned a condominium. He enrolled at Stetson, where he played college baseball for the Stetson Hatters baseball team in the Atlantic Sun Conference. As a freshman in 2005, Kluber was used as a relief pitcher. He compiled a 2–2 win–loss record with a 7.82 earned run average (ERA) in 25 innings pitched. As a sophomore, he had a 6–5 win–loss record and a 3.61 ERA in 17 games, 14 of which he started. In 2007, Kluber had a 12–2 win–loss record and a 2.05 ERA with 117 strikeouts. That year, he was named the Atlantic Sun Conference's Pitcher of the Year, a second team member of the 2007 Ping! Baseball All-American Team and a member the American Baseball Coaches Association All-Atlantic Region Second Team in 2007.
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