Hunter Perdue entered the 2019 spring as a Florida State commit and one of the top Junior College pitchers in the nation. Perdue posted a 2.38 ERA through seven starts to begin the season for State College of Florida, before the right-handed pitcher started to feel soreness in his right arm. The righty needed the dreaded Tommy John surgery. Due to the injury, he wasn’t drafted and ended up at FSU, but had to sit out the year while rehabbing his injury.
Perdue had to sit out a year of baseball for the first year of his career, and it was a difficult time for him.