Josh Bell #37

Selected by the Dodgers in the fourth round of the 2005 First Year Player Draft...Graduated from Santaluces High School... Married, wife's name is Summer.

2011

Appeared in 26 games for the O's in three stints with the club (July 18-19, July 23-August 21 and September 6-end of season) ... Recorded season-high two hits, August 8 against Chicago ... Hit in four straight games, August 15-19 to tie his career-long hitting streak ... Had consecutive multi-RBI games, August 15-16, for the first time in his career ... Drove in five of his six runs on the year in a three-game span from August 15-17 ... Was 6-for-19 (.316) with runners in scoring position ... Batted .253 (100-395) in 101 games for Norfolk as he led the club with 19 home runs and was fourth with 57 RBI ... Homered in three straight games, July 7-9, and homered three times in a five-game span, August 26-30 ... Homered twice April 25 against Durham and homered in consecutive games three times (May 23-24, May 30-31 and June 11-12) ... Hit in a season-high six straight games twice, May 12-17 and July 6-14 ... Recorded four consecutive multi-hit games, July 6-9 ... Posted eight three-hit games ... Made two errors in a game twice, three errors (all fielding) in a game once and made four throwing errors July 9 against Durham ... Hit .284 (52-183) at Harbor Park but just .226 (48-212) on the road ... Batted .269 (75-279) left-handed and .216 (25-116) right-handed ... Was a .318 hitter (41-129) when ahead in the count but hit just .129 (13-101) when behind in the count.

2010

Had three separate stints with the O's; July 1-9; 16-21 and 31-end of the season ... Made his ML debut and picked up first hit on July 1 vs. OAK ... Collected first career multi-hit game on July 18 vs. TOR ... Hit 2-RBI double in 6th inning on August 3 vs. LAA, the first XBH and RBI of his ML career ... Hit first two ML HR off Cliff Lee and collected career-high three H and five RBI (entered game w/ four RBI) on August 21 vs. TEX ... Became 4th O's rookie to hit his first MLB home run as part of a multi-home run game, joining Jim Fuller (September 25, 1973), Curt Blefary (April 17, 1965) and Boog Powell (May 2, 1962) ... It was the first multi-HR game for an O's rookie since Michael Aubrey, October 2, 2009 vs. TOR ... All three of his HR came hitting right-handed ... Hit safely in 10 of his final 12 starts ... Batted .300 with a .767 OPS in 13 games against teams under .500 and .185/.444 in 40 games against winning teams ... Batted .278 (88-316) with 25 doubles, 13 home runs and 50 RBI in 81 games for the Tides ... In 24 games in June, he hit .272 (25-92) with 9-2B, four HR, 19 RBI and a .500 SLG ... 25 doubles were T-4th in the IL at the time of his promotion ... Finished tied for second on the Tides with 13 home runs and tied for third with 25 doubles

2009

Began the season with Double-A Chattanooga, finishing in the top-10 in the Southern League in SLG (4th - .497), OBP (5th - .386) and AVG (10th - .296) with 11 HR and 52 RBI in 94 games for the Lookouts...Named Southern League All-Star Game MVP, going 2-for-5 with a home run, 2 RBI and 2 runs scored...Southern League Player of the Week, July 20-26, batting .571 (12-21) with 5 walks, 6 extra-base hits and 10 RBI in six games...Reached base safely in 19 straight games, July 4-28, batting .386 (27-70) with 13 walks and a .488 OBP during the streak...Collected season-high 4 hits on July 21 vs. Mobile...Had 12 multi-RBI games, including season-high 5 on July 25 vs. Mobile...Batted .335 (77-230) with a 1.025 OPS vs. RHP for Chattanooga...Acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers with minor league RHP Steve Johnson in exchange for LHP George Sherrill, July 30...Batted .289/.346/.570 (33-114) with 9 HR and 24 RBI in 33 games with Double-A Bowie, including 4 HR in his final six games...Reached base safely in 28 of his 33 games with Bowie...Had eight multi-hit games for Bowie, including four consecutive, August 9-13, during which he batted .625 (10-16)...Batted .349 (29-83) with a 1.092 OPS vs. RHP for the Baysox...Batted .319/.388/.516 (29-91) with 13 extra-base hits, 19 RBI and 16 runs scored in 23 games for Phoenix in the Arizona Fall League...Named the O's #2 prospect and the #5 prospect in the AFL by Baseball America

2008

Rated as the Dodgers' No. 8 prospect and Best Power Hitter according to Baseball America...Was placed on the DL on June 3, and missed the remainder of the season after undergoing left knee surgery.

2007

Rated as the 11th-best prospect in the Dodger organization and the 9th-best prospect in the Midwest League by Baseball America...Finished the year tied for 9th in the league with a .289 batting average and 4th with a .470 slugging percentage... Played for West Oahu of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League following the season and was named the league's 10th-best prospect by Baseball America.

2006

Ranked by Baseball America as the Dodgers' 9th-best prospect...Ranked by Baseball Prospectus as the No. 6 prospect in the Dodger organization...Selected to the 2006 Topps Short-A/Rookie All-Star Team at third base...Twice honored as the Pioneer League Player of the Week (July 31-August 6; August 21-27)....Ranked third in the league with 12 home runs and fourth with 32 extra-base hits.