Kluber thanks the rain for ascension to game’s elite

On a rainy day in Columbus in 2011 and nothing but time on his hands, Corey Kluber decided to have some fun with his Triple-A mound session. He fired his customary four-seam fastball, but he then started working in a two-seam sinker every few pitches. What the Indians could not have known on that afternoon was the turning point in Kluber’s career had quietly arrived.