35-year-old free agent OF Pat Burrell will return to Philadelphia next month, but only to retire. He will sign a one-day contract with the Phillies to retire with the team that drafted him in 1998 and saw him play nine Major League seasons as his career has been all-but ended by a foot injury. Burrell will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the May 19 game against Boston at Citizen's Bank Park.
Burrell is fourth in Philadelphia history in homers, eighth in runs batted in, and ninth in extra base hits. He left as a free agent after helping lead the team to a World Series title in 2008 and went on to play for Tampa Bay and San Francisco, winning a second World Series with the Giants in 2010. In his career, Burrell batted .253 with 292 homers and 976 runs batted in.
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