"We kind of came up with a plan to kind of use his legs a little bit more," Steenstra said in a telephone interview. "He started implementing the long-toss program that we do. You hope to see maybe a mile per hour or two out of guys when you start doing things like that. … The ball was just coming out of his hand completely different, and he probably put on three, four miles per hour on the top end in some of those starts."