Command

Baseball is a paradox, it's both a team sport and an individual sport, all at the same time! On defense, you are a part of a 9 man unit tasked with keeping the runners off base. But...

It can be so individual. When you are on the mound, it is as if everyone else fades into the background and its just you and the hitter in a modern day duel.

At a certain level, the talent pool becomes even. Great pitchers and great hitters are commonplace. Pitchers have every pitch in the book and every hitter has a great swing. The difference is COMMAND. 

If a pitcher has command, and can locate each pitch exactly where he wants to, its like a video game and completely unfair to the hitter. With COMMAND, a pitcher can sequence the type of pitch and location of pitch to keep the hitter off balance. It's not just that they throw fast, or that the pitch has movement, it's that it is delivered in exactly the right location to reduce the odds of good contact on the hitters part.

COMMAND is the big differentiator. Good pitchers throw hard and have movement, g