Blue, well stated. Velocity and curve/breaking stuff is exactly what pitch-lab can help with. Command and changeup, seemingly much less so. So, it kinda seems like he's got the stuff pitch lab can't give, and he needs the things that pitch lab can assist with.
You guys with Q/Lester analogies are kinda depressing me, though. Yeah, I know you could do worse, but at some point you do need to get some actually flat-out good players, not just anti-awfuls. And obviously what was good velocity back when Lester was young, everybody is faster now. *IF* Wicks has velocity little better than Q and Lester in their recent Cubs years, that would be awfully disappointing; sitting 94-96, that would be a very different story than the Lester or Q in my recent memory for sure.
As always, the level of "good command" is central to everything. Davies and Hendricks both generally scout under the "very good command" umbrella. But game to game we see games when they're really sharp, and games when they're not. Q was supposed to be a command guy, but in practice that was very inconsistent, and his stuff was so sub-average that when his command was inconsistent, he was super vulnerable. Abbott is supposed to be a command/control guy, but his command doesn't seem to be good enough for the stuff he's got. We'll see how good Wicks' command really is, and how consistently so. But hopefully his stuff will be good enough so that he can win games without being super-duper-sharp all the time.