New England Insider: The Recruiting Angle with Josh Garber
April 21, 2015
By Dennis Healy
PBR NE Director of Scouting
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NE Insider: The Recruiting Angle with Josh Garber
Starting this week we are going to do a series of articles and look-ins on what is going on with players in New England and the interest they are getting from the college level coaches.
This time of year seems to be a very nerve racking time for unsigned seniors and underclassmen looking to get on coaches radar. No need to panic, it's early in the spring and once it warms up, the coaches will be out to see your game. Relaxing and enjoying the spring season is important, so keep in mind, control the controllable things and work on your game.
The following weekly article will be a feature on a player who has yet to break onto the scene, but certainly has the ability to play and/or pitch at the college level.
No matter what your statistics are or how many championships you win, recruiting is a strange phenomena. Coaches at all levels see players differently and look for different things.
For me, I was a recruiting coordinator/pitching coach for 15 years ( Head Coach for 4 years), I had criteria I went by.
On the mound, I like athletic athletes who have a clean arm and most importantly an out pitch. I paid the player (scholarship wise) for that out pitch, plain and simple.
As for positional hitters, I asked myself, would I want this guy up with two outs, a guy on second and third with the game one the line? If my answer was yes, I recruited him, if it was no, then I did not.
The middle of the field, catcher, SS, 2B and CF are keys areas for me. Three of the four have to defend and I like an offensive second baseman.
Lastly, you can never have enough left-handed hitters and left-handed pitchers in my opinion.
The feature today is on Josh Garber, right-handed pitcher out of Lawrence Academy and a 2016 graduate.