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Friendship with Proefrock key to Burnett's joining Phillies

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A.J. Burnett drove his Dodge truck for 16 hours, and Saturday bled into Sunday morning. He stowed his 20-foot Nitro Z-9 fishing boat beyond the center-field wall at Bright House Field. The Phillies were stretching when Burnett, a $16 million infusion to the franchise's most expensive team ever, appeared at 9:55 a.m.

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