Jason Bell (manager)

Jason Bell

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 2", Weight 190 lb.
• School St. Louis University, University of Central Missouri
• High School Parkway Central High School

• Born July 12, 1990

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Biographical Information

Jason Bell never played professional baseball, as he underwent Tommy John surgery in college, then chose to pursue graduate studies and concentrate on coaching instead. His master's thesis in 2014 was on the Houston Astros' strategy of re-building the team from the ground up, sacrificing results at the major level in the immediate in order to achieve a bigger payoff down the road. He also served an internship with Baseball Info Solutions, a leading firm in the area of analytics during the summer of 2014.

Bell moved into coaching at the collegiate level that fall. He joined the Ohio University Bobcats as an assistant coach and Director of Baseball Operations for the 2015 season. In 2016 he was an assistant coach with a focus upon pitching for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks. He left one Hawks school for another in the fall of 2016 when he started as an assistant coach at Heartland Community College.

The Houston Astros hired Bell away from Heartland in 2017 for a development coach position with the Quad Cities River Bandits. In 2018, he was appointed manager of the Tri-City ValleyCats of the New York-Penn League. He had a great first season, leading the team to the league championship after finishing third overall in the regular season - all that as the second-youngest manager in all of Organized Baseball.

After the 2018 season, however, he decided to pursue other opportunities within the Astros organization, taking a job as the organization's fundamentals coordinator, based in West Palm Beach, FL. He retained this role through 2021, though Bell's LinkedIn page[1] lists him as the Astros Minor League Field Coordinator for these years. Bell was the Field Coordinator in 2022-2023 with the additional title of Assistant Director for Player Development in 2023.

In 2024, the Astros promoted Bell to the major league staff as their Quality Assurance Coach, a position he repeated in 2025.

Bell also has a bit of international coaching experience. He was the bench coach for the Senadores de San Juan of the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League during the 2024/2025 season.

Year-By-Year Managerial Record

Year	Team	League	Record	Finish	Organization	Playoffs
2018	Tri-City ValleyCats	New York-Penn League	42-33	3rd	Houston Astros	League Champs

Further Reading

• Mark Singelais: "Former ValleyCats manager takes new position with Astros: Jason Bell becomes Houston coordinator; Ozney Guillen to manage Tri-City", Albany Times Union, January 24, 2019. [2]