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Jay Bell, shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1989-1996, was taken by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 1998 Expansion draft, after spending 1997 with the Kansas City Royals. Bell scored the winning run in the 2001 World Series off of Luis Gonzalez’s single. A few years later he would retire from playing and become the bench coach for the Diamondbacks. He retired from coaching in 2006 to spend more time with his family.
There is some speculation of Jay Bell’s potential ties to performance enhancing drugs. In 1999, Bell hit 38 Home Runs. His yearly average, not including 1999, was 9.23 home runs a year. In 1999, Jay Bell hit a homer every 15.5 at bats, as opposed to his career average of a homer every 43.4 at bats.
Although 38 home runs is common among power hitters, Bell wasn’t one. His jump from an average of 9.23 HR, to 38 HR may be more drastic then any player being chased in the performance enhancing witch hunt.
0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K. That was the box score for a game in which Doc Ellis hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen. He walked Tony Perez, who avoided his attempts to hit him. He was pulled from the game, which explains one of the strangest box scores you’ll ever see.
Earlier in his career, he pitched the famous “No-Hitter on Acid”. Supposedly Ellis was tripping on acid when he pitched the June 12, 1970 No-Hitter against the San Diego Padres.
Dock is now a drug counselor in California.
José “Chico” Lind won the gold glove when he committed only 6 errors in the regular season. His error in the seventh game of the NLCS is what gave him his pink slip out of Pittsburgh.
After leaving Pittsburgh, he played a few seasons for the Royals, and later the Angels. In 1996 he was arrested for possession of cocaine. The following year, he was pulled over for leaving the scene of an accident. When the police approached the car, they discovered Lind was naked from the waste down and intoxicated. A search of his vehicle found seven empty cans of beer and a gram of cocaine. For this, Chico spent a year in jail.
Once he was released from jail, a cleaned-up Chico spent 3 years managing the Bridgeport Bluefish, who are now coached by Tommy John.
“Nobody told me I was in competition. If there is competition, somebody better let me know. If there is competition, they better eliminate me out of the race and go ahead and do what they’re going to do with me. I ain’t never hit in spring training and I never will. If it ain’t settled with me out there, then they can trade me. I ain’t going out there to hurt myself in spring training battling for a job. If it is [a competition], then I’m going into ‘Operation Shutdown.’ Tell them exactly what I said. I haven’t competed for a job since 1991.”
Derek Bell got paid 9 million dollars for a .173 batting average and 5 home runs.
In April of 2006, Bell was arrested after police found a warm crack pipe in the back seat of his car during a traffic stop.
Lastly, we’ll visit Al Martin. Martin was brought up to the Majors for good in 1993, as the next great Pirate. Pirates’ propaganda wanted us to believe that he would follow in the same footsteps as recently departed Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla. Martin was a capable ball player, but he was not the star that the Pirates wanted us to believe he was groomed to be.
Al lasted 7 seasons with the Pirates, and later on went to play with the Padres, Mariners, and Devil Rays. During his stint in San Diego, stories surfaced that Martin had two wives in separate parts of the country. He told police that he was under the assumption that his second marriage, performed in Las Vegas, wasn’t law binding.
Martin also lied on a radio show about playing safety for the USC Trojans in 1986. He compared an incidental collision with Carlos Guillen to a tackle he attempted on Leroy Hoard. The truth was, that Martin was never even enrolled in USC, and was in the Atlanta Braves farm system at that time.
Al Martin was later involved in a domestic abuse case with one of his wives.
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