Cliff Lee is "excited" to return to the Phillies, who last year traded him away to the Mariners. Lee was being courted aggressively by the Rangers and Yankees, but he shocked the baseball world by taking taking a smaller contract to return to Philadelphia. "Obviously I wanted to be back," Lee told a Philadelphia-area television affiliate. "I'm here, so I'm excited and ready to get this deal finalized and be back with the Phillies."