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....Hot lefties take a while to find the strike zone.  Koufax didn't walk fewer than 5 per 9 innings until his 6th season.  With the Big Unit it was his 7th or 8th season.
Paxton is basically nuking MLB lineups and it "looks" like he is struggling.  He's not struggling with getting guys out butmore with figuring out some consistency.  Outwardly he still brings that Zen-like calm, as if he is the Master and not the Grasshopper.  But I'll give you dollars to doughnuts he still has some internal butterflies. Mixing my winged-insect metaphors, I know.  
Why wouldn't he have some nerves?  He's thrown just 11 big league games, or something like that, and it's nearly Sept. and he's in the middle of a wicked WC chase and he's expected to be a big cog.
 Let's just count our blessings and let the guy figure it out.  Give him a bit...then watch the AL duck and cover.  They'll be the flies....he'll be the swatter.  (I couldn't resist adding another).
Sidd Finch, Doc!  Sidd Finch........  
Except he's real, a lefty, and ours.
Moe