The Bell tolls

Indians manager Eric Wedge, as quoted in The Plain Dealer today:
"You can't replace a Buddy Bell."
Well, you'd better hope you can. The Indians coaching staff is loaded with guys who had their 15 minutes in the big leagues as players, like Wedge, Joel Skinner, Carl Willis and Jeff Datz. But only Bell and Eddie Murray had made a career of it.
Now, Murray is the only former all-star left on the Indians coaching staff with the departure of Bell to manage the Royals Tuesday.
I don't think there's any simmering disrespect brewing between Indians players and coaches, but the fact is, hall-of-famers like Murray and former all-stars like Bell can't help but be strong voices with players. Criticism players might shrug off coming out of the mouths of Datz or Skinner is criticism more likely heeded out of the mouths of Murray or Bell. These are guys players grew up watching, after all.
It helped that Bell apparently had a tell-it-like-it-is reputation throughout the Indians organization.
The Plain Dealer reported Wedge might consider taking aged Johnny Goryl out of mothballs to be his new bench coach. Goryl replaced Bell as the Indians bench coach under Mike Hargrove in 1996.
I have a better idea: let's swap up with the Royals and have Wedge hire Tony Pena as his new bench coach. Unlike 70-something Goryl, Pena would bring the energy of a young coach and the experience of having managed in the big leagues.
He would also have, by default, the best mustache in the Tribe dugout.