re: What happened to Lange's control?

His biggest problem is a lack of control in general right now. The fast ball command isn't there so hitters are laying off the breaking balls. His breaking ball is best when piggy backed off of strong fast balls. When he throws his breaking ball, he's actually trying to put in the dirt about a foot behind home plate. It's not a strike pitch. It's supposed to fool hitters into swinging. If that fast ball command is there it allows him to throw that pitch and the results are weak ground balls or swing and miss. If the fast ball command isn't there, hitters aren't fooled. He's constantly getting into hitters pitch situations where he's forced to throw a fast ball (at least majority of the time). Once the fast ball command comes around you'll see a big difference is hitters approaches and that breaking ball is gonna be dirty as frick.