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
bullpen everybody puts synch whatever
Burgos has done pretty good, but this has our bullpen out of synch -- it puts everybody in different roles, whatever those are.
felt guess history hit mike plate sent umpire
Because of the history and Ambres got hit earlier, ... I guess Mike (home plate umpire Mike Everitt) felt like Zack sent a message.
deserves great happy learn loved situation terrific
I loved being around him. He's a terrific competitor. This is a great place for him, not just for the (winning) environment. You're going to learn a lot. I'm just really happy for him. He deserves to be in a situation like this. It's up to him what he does with it. My money's on him.
gave time tough win winning
If we don't win that game, we have a tough time winning any game. We had a lot of chances. They gave us a lot of opportunities. We just couldn't get any thing done with the opportunities we had.
case couple haunt innings last
I don't know what to say. When you don't get innings out of your rotation, it's always going to come back to haunt you. That's been the case the last couple of days.
swing
I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.
feeling knew pitch
I don't know what he did when he went down to Triple-A, but there was just the feeling that he knew he could pitch up here. ... He's just been a completely different guy.
seeing sent
We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.
games guy help win
He's a guy that'll help us win some games.
double four hit
Go figure. You hit into four double plays, that's not good.
bit gives kid medicine run somebody
He's a kid that gives us energy. He's so likeable. He's somebody I like to run into every day. He's a bit of medicine for me.
words
He understands that he wasn't ready. Those were his words to me.
bother seemed
He would let something like that bother him in the past. It seemed like he got better after that.
last mac obvious year
He was the obvious choice. He's got the stuff, and he did it last year when Mac wasn't available, so he has some experience.