Pat Burrell, the Phillies' left fielder, had a nice second half last season and helped propel Philadelphia into the playoffs. I asked some talent evaluators to give their assessment of Burrell: From an NL scout: "He went the other way a lot more in the second half; he didn't try to pull everything. Before that, it was as if he saw the short fence [in Philly] and saw nothing but home runs. It seemed like in the second half of last year, he figured out that the home runs would come by accident, a ...

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