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A.J. Ellis still adjusting, learning names as he joins the Phillies

It wasn’t easy leaving the only professional organization he’d ever been part of, but new Phillie A.J. Ellis, acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Carlos Ruiz trade Thursday, is coming to terms with it. “To find out that the trade went down, it was hard,” Ellis said upon reporting to his new club Saturday. Ellis, 35, was drafted by the Dodgers in 2003 and rose to the majors with them in 2008.