Jermaine Ong is a Digital Content Producer at ABC 10News/KGTV in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO -- Sean Burroughs , who played for the San Diego Padres for four seasons after being drafted by the club in the first round of the 1998 draft, died Thursday at age 43, according to published reports.
The Padres selected Burroughs ninth overall in the 1998 MLB draft, and he made his Major League debut as a 21-year-old in 2002. After a season with Tampa Bay, Burroughs left baseball and for the next several years, he battled and overcame serious personal problems.
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