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...whether a pitcher is John Halama or Jamie Moyer.  Halama had the height, he threw a no-hitter AND a perfect game in the minors, IIRC...
And he just didn't have QUITE good enough control to offset his lack of velocity, or he didn't care enough about baseball to be great.  Halama was on record as not liking baseball, but it was gonna make him a millionaire so he figured he might as well throw a baseball around.
But how do you call a Jamie Moyer or a Mark Buehrle or a Brad Radke? 
Erasmo Ramirez is trying to be one.  But we've already gone through this phase as an organization where we were looking for the next Moyer, had entire drafts we'd call the "soft-tossing lefty" drafts that panned out with jack and nothin'. 
I kinda hope Zduriencik is NOT hunting for soft-tossers.  He obviously believes in the powers of command and control, which is fine, but finding a pitcher who can consistently hit his spots and baffle hitters with an 89 mph fastball isn't like plucking low-hanging fruit.
We have some, and I like it.  But I wouldn't try to put together a pipeline for it. 
~G