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Phillies looking forward to a future with Matt Harrison

Matt Harrison is here, we reminded you a few days ago.

He's the only major league player that came to the Phillies in exchange for Cole Hamels, and that is largely assumed to be a courtesy move by the Phillies. Instead of sending more than the $9.5 million they sent to Texas, they simply inherited Harrison, who has suffered through back problems so severe in recent seasons that he is the first ever pitcher to return from the type of treatment he required.

But Harrison has made himself at home, as Tom Reifsnyder told us in the Daily News, talking to his other teammates as if he is one of them.