Robert Kaminsky Robert Kaminsky. Photo: Youtube. High School: St. Joseph Regional, Class of 2013 Hometown: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Height/Weight: 6-0, 190 lbs. Bats: Switch hitter Throws: Left (throws a football right-handed) Velocity: 94 mph Pitches: fastball, curveball, change-up College commitment: North Carolina MLB: Drafted in the first round by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2013 Rob Kaminsky is naturally right-handed, but pitches left-handed and dominated in high school. He has a nasty curveball with velocity. A solid LHP, he is compared with Sandy Koufax, who was also Jewish. The youngest of Alan and Donna Kaminsky’s three children, Robert excelled in Little League, switch-hitting and sometimes throwing lefty, sometimes righty . Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax ...
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