It is former Blue Jays outfielder Derek Bell birthday today. He turns 54 today. Bell was a 2nd round draft pick for the Blue Jays in 1987. He moved up the Jays system pretty quickly, made it to the...
, who was older and more established, maybe a little better defensively, to take over the 4th outfielder job. I remember not being very impressed with the trade. Jackson wasn’t much of a player. I thought Bell had much more potential, but the point of getting Jackson wasn’t to get someone to carry us. It was to get someone that wouldn’t cost us games. In more than two months, Jackson played 46 games and hit .216/.250/.347.back.
Fernandez hit .306/.361/.442, played good defense, and we won anotherBell? He played a couple of seasons with the Padres, and then they traded him to theas part of an 11-player deal. He was an Astro for five seasons, then spent a season with the Mets andhit .276/.336/.421 with 134 home runs, 668 RBI, and 170 stolen bases, quite a nice career. However, we really could have used him in the later ‘90s. His best season was with the Astros in 1998 when he hit .314/.364/.
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