PITTSBURGH — Jameson Taillon didn’t start throwing his two-seam fastball with regularity until he made his major-league debut less than a year ago.
Despite that, one of Taillon’s most enduring qualities in his short time in the majors has been command. Taillon walked just 17 batters in all of 2016 for a microscopic 1.47 BB/9.
In 2017 he hasn’t been quite as sharp. He walked three batters on Saturday in an 11-5 loss to the New York Yankees and is up to 10 in four appearances this season.
Taillon said that his command was “in and out” all afternoon.