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Meet The New Guy: Marcus Phillips

He’s Marcus Phillips and he comes to us from South Dakota via the University of Tennessee. The Red Sox selected Phillips 33rd overall, with a pick received via the Quinn Priester trade.

Fifty percent of my freshman year roommates were from The Mount Rushmore State, but only 0.002% of all Major League Baseball players in history were from there. Can Phillips beat the odds and become only the fifth player born in South Dakota to make the All-Star team joining Floyd Bannister, Keith Foulke (!), Justin Duchscherer, and Sean Doolittle? We’ll find out sometime over the next 15 years!