Link: padres.com: News.
A New Jersey native, Burke underwent Tommy John surgery while a sophomore in college and never quite returned to his old form until his fifth year of school.
\”I\’d had a couple of looks in the Drafts — in fact, the Padres were one of the teams looking at me — but I didn\’t get picked, which was a little disheartening,\” he said. \”But I also knew at that point that I was pitching the best I\’d ever pitched.\”
After signing with an independent team 15 minutes from his home of Bellmawr, N.J., he received a midsummer letter from the Padres asking him to come to their next tryout camp.
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