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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 3148877, member: 2141"] As the high school infield is still under water (the school is on the side of a hill, so its all tiers with the high school itself on top and the baseball diamond/soccer field at the bottom and as water runs downhill...), I caught Josh Cohen pitch for a bit today. The high school was using the 90' Rec Field, which happens to be across the street from the 60' field my 9U travel team had a game today. He's not a big guy (I guessed 5' 10", PG has him at 6' 1"); but still is imposing as he just gives off this 'angry professional' vibe as his warm-up pitches hitting the catcher's mitt have a notiable bite to them vesus what I heard from the other guys. He has a high leg lick and talks to himself a lot on the mound. I caught roughly 4 innings and he gave-up 2 hits, 2 walks and no runs. PV, which has a good team, did load the bases in the 3rd with 2 outs; but, Cohen just overpowered the next guy with 3 straight fastballs. One of the Hills' coaches was next to me and had a gun showing Cohen was hitting low '80's. But I bet he can go higher as he was fighting with a soft/wet mound. His fastball ranges between waist and knee high on average and he also flashes an off-speed pitch that really drops. So, good command. His weakness, especially watching him deal with poor footing, is sometimes he tries to do too much. I could hear Hill's Head Coach tell him to 'just pitch,' a lot. Decent glove an defense from what I saw as he easily took care of a 1-3 ground-out and comfortably covered a 3-1 put-out, also. I did not see him bat. I would also like to catch Favieri this Spring, to; but, its unlikely as I would have to make a special trip to see him as Ridgewood is class IV and thus does not play any of the nearby high schools, which are class II or III. Plus, I suspect I will have no free time once the rain (hopefully) ends as I will be in a mad scramble with make-up games for my 9U and 12U baseball teams. [/QUOTE]

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