Reply to "Where does command come from?"

TPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003

PGStaff aka Jerry Ford.

6/10/16

"When someone talks command, it includes control.

When someone talks about control, it may or may not include command. You can not have great command without good control. You can have good control without great command."

Where does command come from? Difficult question to answer, but IMO it's not something you can teach and very difficult for most pitchers to master for all of their pitches. There are but a handful of really elite arms in MLB that have great control and great command of 3 or 4 pitches.

A pitcher that has great command knows exactly where to put any pitch where he wants it. That's not easy for most pitchers to master.

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