Buddy Bell Good Quotations

My expectations aren't real high for the first week to 10 days. We're just letting them get used to changes we've made. We did some good things.

Obviously, he's taking care of himself a lot better than he used to. I just love the way he competes, and I love the way he cares. He's a good teammate. That's what I like.

From what I understand he pretty much fits the kind of player we're looking for -- good character and he's talented, and we can use as many of those kind of guys as we can get,

He's played really well. He'll come into Spring Training with a real good opportunity. A lot of it depends on what we do in the winter, but there's not a whole lot about his game that I don't like.

He seems to be doing better. He's beginning to talk about coming back. That's a good sign.

He mentioned that he didn't do a very good job.

He'll play a couple of games at short, but mainly he'll play second. He'll get a lot of playing time there. We want to see what he can do offensively, we already know he's a good defensive player.

Optimistically, we're hoping he'll be back in the lineup Tuesday, ... Today is Saturday. Hopefully he'll feel good tomorrow and be able to do something, see how it feels on Monday and play Tuesday.

I think we're all very optimistic. Because of the changes we made over the winter, because of the chemistry we developed through the course of spring training, I think we all feel pretty good about where we're at right now.

We didn't catch these guys at a real good time. You know what? We didn't pitch very well, and a big, big reason for that is they've got some guys who are extremely hot right now.

We had a lot of chances early against a good pitcher, but we just couldn't get anything done. That is the best I have seen (Jose) Contreras throw in quite a while.

Everybody was sure we would do it, but I knew better. There was no way we would lose 100 games two years in a row! 63-99 looks real good right now!

The good thing about our bullpen is our three guys can all close, with no problem.

We've just got to forget about that and play as good as we can, as long as we can.

The reason is it gives us a little more time to use Woody out of the bullpen. We have a really good feeling of what Woody gives us. He pitched very well in Spring Training.

Denny has never pitched out of the bullpen. We weren't sure what we were going to get out of the bullpen from Denny. We have a pretty good idea of what we're going to get from Woody. That probably was the deciding factor.

They're still reading the MRIs, but we got enough on his back that DL-ing him was probably a pretty good move. It's just really more preliminary than anything else right now.

They're swinging the bats. We didn't throw strikes when we had to and they make you pay. So, yeah, this is a good time to get out of here.

This is getting really old. We literally did some bad things -- getting picked off, doubled off. The kid pitched a good game, but he threw to the same place the whole game and we didn't make adjustments. You've got to have the courage to make adjustments, to live with a plan. It is frustrating.

Any time you're in a situation like J.P. is you want every outing to be a good one. I hope to think we're smarter than to put everything on one outing. That's obviously going to be a consideration because we've got to make a decision, but he's had some other outings that have been pretty good.

I just know he's doing well. No news is good news, I guess.

He's just a good baseball player. He's fun to be around.

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.

He threw good but, in the middle of the game, I don't think he felt real comfortable.

He threw the ball well. He had good velocity on his fastball and a good breaking ball. He was impressive.

It was his third start and it wasn't very good today. But for the most part, since we got him back he's been pretty good.

They were really good and we were really bad. I'm glad we got that one out of the way early.

Their big guy was pretty good tonight. Great stuff, pretty good location to go along with it. Facing a guy like that, you?ve got to take advantage of any situations you?ve got. We didn?t get any tonight.

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.

This is a good time to get out of here.

And our other guys were just as good or maybe even a little bit better.

It might be earlier than that. He threw good and had no problem with his knees. Now he's more or less going through Spring Training.

It's all about pitching. If you get good pitching, you have a chance, and they've got some hitting over there, too. It doesn't happen overnight, but it's not what you would call a huge surprise. I could see it progressing.

It was bad. We didn't play very good (in) any phase, offensively, defensively, pitching.

I don't want to take anything away from him, but I think he caught us at a good time.

I don't want to take anything away from (Vazquez), but he caught us at a good time. It looks like we aren't aggressive at the plate and are afraid to make an out up there.

I don't think the call was made correctly. They have a good crew, and I think they did the right thing by asking the other members of the crew.

Graff, obviously, goes in a utility role, but probably a notch above that. We need to get him in the lineup as much as we possibly can, whether it is first, third or second. We'll be able to give those guys a day off here and there. Graff is a good Major League player. He's a good fit for our team.

He pitched really good against us the couple of times we faced San Diego, so he's in the mix for that last couple of bullpen spots.

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.

He actually made a pretty good pitch to Manny. But, as you know, Manny has done that before.