It's definitely fastball command. Buchholz needs to have hitters respect the fact that he can locate his fastball down in the zone and on the corners so that his off-speed stuff becomes that much more effective. Otherwise, they just sit on the changeup or wait for a hanging curveball. Getting back to the Lester comparisons though, he had the same problems with fastball command and leaving his s*** up in the zone. It's a case of giving big league hitters too much respect.
Lester had fairly significant growing pains as well, his record just didn't indicate that. Buchholz just flat out needs to stop over-thinking out there. Catch the ball, get the sign, throw the ball.
All depending on what the lineup looks like two years from now, I can live with Kotchman in a platoon at the very least. The Martinez acquisition gives them a lot more flexibility in filling future holes.
To each their own then. Ppinions on color commentators vary person to person a lot of the time. Don't be one of those f***s who think their opinion should be the be all end all opinion on the subject.
I'd like to see one from the group of Dice-K, Smoltz, Penny and Buchholz step up to be a solid number three for the post-season but if things stay as is, yea I think we need another starter