Buddy Bell Quotations

He was probably better than we saw him over in Kansas City. He was good.

He was great the way he got out of it that inning. He's going to win a lot of games for us. We've just got to start scoring some runs for him.

He was good. I know he threw a few too many pitches in the first inning, but he settled in. You know, I think a lot of times the first time in a real stadium other than a Spring Training ballpark gets your hearts started a little more -- maybe throwing through his stuff a little bit -- but I thought he was really good.

He was running funny, but Mike has kind of a funny gait anyway. We don't think it's serious.

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.

We got back in the game, but it seems we never have enough. We have too many holes in the lineup to keep things going.

Both of them looked like they threw free and easy. Now we're trying to figure out what we're going to do with Bautista -- whether we're going to send him to the Instructional League or whether we're going to have another simulated game for him before the Instructional League.

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

He seems committed to getting himself in decent shape. Health-wise he looks good. He needs to continue to work on his conditioning, so we can count on him being there all year long.

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.