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
pitch walk
Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?
preparing quite ready time worst
We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.
swing
I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.
barrel guy veteran
He's a veteran guy who understands what a guy is doing and just put the barrel on it.
kansas saw
He was probably better than we saw him over in Kansas City. He was good.
bothered couple elbow sore tells weeks wish
He tells us he's been bothered by this sore elbow for a couple of weeks. I wish he'd told us a couple of weeks ago.
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.
grown seems
His tempo, his motions, everything. It just seems like he's grown up.
double four hit
Go figure. You hit into four double plays, that's not good.
classy great kid known
I've known Reggie for a while. My son, David, and he are great friends. It's no surprise. I've known he was a classy kid for a long time.
clicking confidence experience games good struggle winning
This is a good experience for them. Everything isn't clicking just yet, but they'll be a part of a lot of winning games someday. They're young guys. They struggle with their confidence sometimes.
words
He understands that he wasn't ready. Those were his words to me.
quite
Quite honestly, I think that is a long shot.
glad good
They were really good and we were really bad. I'm glad we got that one out of the way early.