ATTN: College Coaches, COVID19 Risk Hiding In Your Recruiting Process?

To Coaches That Want To Fill A 2021 Roster Spot Despite COVID19

(CLICK HERE for the full transcription of the interview)

UPDATED: Josh has currently found a home at a JC, but I’m sure he’d welcome any other interests.

I’m doing something a little different in this post…

I want to help college coaches. But most importantly, I want to help support one of my High School Seniors that got stuck in this COVID-19 season ending cyclone. What follows is an interview to help coaches fill a 2021 roster spot with a solid student athlete…

The NCAA has allowed a 5th year for seniors in college impacted by COVID-19 season shutdown. I agree with this. It was a good move. However, what about High School seniors who only got to play 15-20 games in 2020, without the opportunity to commit?

I’ve interviewed one of those seniors, Josh Karr.

Quarantine lab work. @hitperformlab @PocketRadar @FlatgroundApp @joshkarr16 pic.twitter.com/swa0tJmyt9

— Josh Karr Baseball (@BaseballKarr) April 2, 2020

FULL DISCLAIMER: I’ve worked with Josh in the past, and his dad reinforces our system with him as well. I wanted to conduct an interview as if I was a college coach recruiting Josh.

Quick stats and highlights from the interview

6-foot, 2-inches, 215-pounds. From: Wills Point, Texas. Goes to: Wills Point High School.
96-mph ball exit speed off tee using PocketRadar app. Hit 100-mph on LIVE pitching but didn’t record that.
Infield corner position player: 1B/3B, has played outfield before (RF).
.960 to .970 Fielding%
60-yard time: 7.2
Pop-time: 1.99
3.62 grade point average. 1040 SAT.
Loves Math. Wants to major in Biology, end up in the medical field. Possibly wants to be an NPA.
2019 stats (Junior year): .329 BA, .451 SLG%, .537 OBP%. 27 hits, 4 homers, 5 doubles. 26 RBI’s.
Named “player-to-watch” for his region. Out of roughly 540-550 players of the whole region. Josh was one of top 40 they picked for it.
His main focus hitting right now is line drives

If you want to reach out and contact Josh, you can at the following spots:

Email – jmkarr at SBCGlobal dot net (formatted this way, so Josh doesn’t get a lot of SPAM)
Phone – 661-889-5543
MaxPreps page
On the socials – His personal page on Twitter is: @JoshKarr16 … and his baseball page is: @BaseballKarr …you can DM him there as well.

Final thoughts: yes, I’m a little biased in Josh’s case. And no, I don’t do this that often. But I’m going to vouch for this graduating High School Senior. Josh comes from a solid family. They’re hard workers. Highly disciplined. And focused on what they set their mind to. Josh is a fantastic student. And since I’ve known him, he does what he needs to to compete at the next level. He needed to cut weight, so he cut 10% body fat and dropped 10-15 pounds last fall. His weakness is pitches down in the zone. He’s currently working on driving those pitches on a line. The point is, this is a coachable student athlete that is looking to compete for you. Please reach out…

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