Jesse Biddle is expected to start this season on the mound for the Reading Fighting Phils.
Biddle is with the Philadelphia Phillies at spring training in Clearwater, Florida, right now.
The team's top pitching prospect said he's ready to put last season behind him after the wild hailstorm in Berks County in May left him with a concussion.
"My front windshield was about to cave in. My back windshield did cave in, and it kind of exploded and glass got everywhere," Biddle recalled. "I couldn't see anything, so I had to get out of the car. I couldn't drive it. It stopped working, so I ran to find coverage, and while I was running, I really, seriously got blasted in the back of a head by a hailstone."
Biddle then threw five straight losses for the Fightins, racking up a 9.82 ERA, so the Phillies sent him to Clearwater for a "mental break."
"2014 was tough," Biddle said. "You know, there were a lot of times were I was getting kind of smacked against the wall and held down, and I just was struggling to find air, but I feel very good and I feel like I came out on top."
Biddle said he got a lot of help from fellow pitcher Roy Halladay, who needed a mental break of his own early on in his career.
"He sent me some text messages that were very, very eye-opening and meaningful," Biddle said, "and I saved those messages, and I look at them to this day."
Biddle said he now feels as strong and as healthy as ever as prepares to start the 2015 season back in Reading.
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