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Jesse Biddle's woes continue as he will receive Tommy John; miss 2016

As part of draft chat in 2010, I was asked as the "Phillies expert" of the group who the team would be selecting. Using the three minutes of half-assed googling I had done to prepare for the event, I said "Jesse Biddle," because everyone had pretty much said he was the answer to that question, and the Phillies seemed to like local kids for whatever reason, which Biddle, as a Germantown Friends School alumnus, was.

So I said "Jesse Biddle," and then Bud Selig said "the Phillies select Jesse Biddle," and everyone thought I was so, so smart.