Buddy Bell
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"As player"

* Cleveland Indians (–)

* Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers (–)

* Cincinnati Reds (–)

* Houston Astros ()

* Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers ()

"As manager"

* Detroit Tigers (–)

* Colorado Rockies (–)

* Kansas City Royals (–)

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* 5× Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star (1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/1973, 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/1980–1982 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/1982, 1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/1984)

* 6× Gold Glove Award (1979–1984)

* Silver Slugger Award (1984)

* Texas Rangers Hall of Fame

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"David Gus "Buddy" Bell" (born August 27, 1951) is a former third baseman and manager (baseball)/manager in Major League Baseball. After an 18-year career with four teams, most notably the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers, he managed the Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies and Kansas City Royals for three seasons each. He is the son of outfielder Gus Bell and the father of third basemen David Bell (baseball)/David and Mike Bell (third baseman)/Mike. He is currently vice president and assistant general manager for the Chicago White Sox.

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Health-wise, the other day it was good, but his command was not close. It was not good as we needed it to be. We just want to make sure when he comes up here he is not going to get hammered. It doesn't matter how good you throw, if you don't have your location, you're going to have a tough time getting through an inning in this league.

No, and I don't want to again, either. I really don't think that's the proper thing to do.

We weren't able to capitalize on some of the opportunities that we had.

I told Phillips I'd have him catch back-to-back days before the season was out. He deserved it.

In his case, because of the lack of innings, I think it might help him. I don't think it will hurt him. If anybody needs winter ball, it would be him. We want to make sure he's healthy going into the season next year, too, so if that means rest after he goes through all this rehab, that could be the best way to go, too.

I don't think we saw Schilling at his best tonight. But we took advantage of it and that's what we have to do when a guy like that is not at the top of his game.

We have a real strict pitch count for these young kids and he was at 97. We were going to let him go between 95 and 100.

Then we came back, thanks to the home runs. We usually don't get that kind of production as far as home runs go.

We have a really strict pitch count for these younger kids.