Over the course of his major-league career, Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez’s struggles have been rooted in command issues. When that unconventional delivery gets out of whack, he can have trouble finding the strike zone. That's no secret.
We saw that back in 2014, when Jimenez led the American League in walks for most of the season until he was relegated to the bullpen. Jimenez averaged a career-high 5.5 walks per nine innings that season.
Jimenez has battled his control this season as well. He’s averaging 5.0 walks per nine innings, but in assessing Jimenez’s most recent-performance, a 1/3-inning disaster in Toronto on Sunday that was the shortest start of Jimenez’s career, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said the quality of Jimenez’s stuff hasn’t been there as well.