Buddy Bell
Buddy Bell
David Gus "Buddy" Bellis an American former third baseman and manager in Major League Baseballcurrently serving as vice president and assistant general manager for the Chicago White Sox. After an 18-year career with four teams, most notably the Cleveland Indians, the Texas Rangers, and the Cincinnati Reds, he managed the Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies and Kansas City Royals for three seasons each. He was a five-time MLB All-Star and won six consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards from 1979–84. He is...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 August 1951
catch plays
I never thought any other way. If you can't catch the ball, you're not going to win. It is not just the error. It is the plays you don't get to.
losses quite shows somewhat team
I have to look at the one-run losses as somewhat of a positive. It shows that we're a team that has some character, we just don't have quite enough.
nine wrong
In the nine games, we're doing everything wrong that we were doing right when we were winning.
anyway decided guy instructed move runs smarter throw
In that situation, with a basestealer on first and a guy that runs on third, with his move he was instructed not to throw to first. But he decided to anyway because he's smarter than I am.
dwell evaluate guys home mirror move next terms themselves
In terms of our record, that's just something we have to live with and move on. We can't dwell on it. Some of the guys should feel good, some of them shouldn't feel so hot. If they go home and look in the mirror and evaluate themselves the way they should, we should be much better next year.
He's still working on his command, as are all the pitchers.
baseball fun good
He's just a good baseball player. He's fun to be around.
adds balls care people pitches understand
I don't really care a lot about errors. It is the range, the balls you should get to. If you don't, it adds pitches to the pitcher's pitch count. It adds runners. It is so disruptive. A lot of people don't understand that.
happened
I don't know how many times we've done that. It has happened a lot.
chance disabled good
I don't know how Costa is. I know there's a really good chance that Costa is probably going to go on the disabled list.
extra handle player position
I don't know how we'll handle that. I don't know if we'll take an extra position player or keep it at 12.
serious three
I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.
anybody hitting less runners score seemed sixth third
Before that (the sixth inning), we had a lot of opportunities. We just couldn't get anything across. Actually we couldn't get anybody to third with less than two outs. It seemed like we were always hitting with runners on first and second. To score runs, you have to get opportunities with runners on third and less than two outs. We haven't been able to do that much.
Hopefully, it is no more than a week.