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Mel Stottlemyre Sr.

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Full Name: Melvin Leon Stottlemyre, Sr. Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 1"/178 First Game: August 12, 1964
Birthdate: November 13, 1941 Final Game: August 16, 1974
Birthplace: Hazleton, Missouri MLB Experience: 11 years
Bat/Throw: Right/Right
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  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Statistics
    • 2.1 Pitching Stats
    • 2.2 Fielding Stats
    • 2.3 Batting Stats
  • 3 Transactions
  • 4 Trivia
  • 5 Video Gallery
  • 6 Picture Gallery
  • 7 See Also
  • 8 Categories

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Melvin Leon Stottlemyre, Sr. (born November 13, 1941 in Hazleton, Missouri) is a former pitcher and pitching coach in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees. He was one of the anchors of the Yankees for the Joe Torre era starting in 1996.

Called up midseason in 1964, Stottlemyre went 9-3 to help the Yankees to their fifth consecutive pennant. There in the World Series, Stottlemyre faced future Hall Of Famer Bob Gibson three times in a seven-game Series. Stottlemyre bested Gibson in Game 1, and got a no-decision in Game 5, but lost the decisive Game 7 as the Cardinals won the Series. Stottlemyre would pitch ten more seasons with the Yankees, including three 20-win seasons; but although the 1964 Series marked the Yankees' 29th pennant in 44 seasons, the ensuing decade would be the franchise's lowest period since the 1910s, with the Yankees not reaching the postseason at all. Stottlemyre was released by the Yankees in 1974, and he retired from playing.

In 1977, Stottlemyre re-emerged in baseball as a roving instructor for the Seattle Mariners. After five seasons in that position, he would eventually be hired by the New York Mets as the pitching coach for ten years (including the 1986 World Series championship team) and then followed by a two-year stint as the Houston Astros pitching coach. In 1996, Stottlemyre joined the Yankees coaching staff along with the incoming manager Joe Torre.

After ten seasons and four World Series victories, Stottlemyre resigned his coaching position on October 12, 2005, following the Yankees' ALDS defeat by the Angels. Among his reasons for leaving, he cited personal disagreements with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

In an article in the New York Times, Stottlemyre said he was amused by Steinbrenner's statement after the division series that congratulated Angels manager Mike Scioscia. Asked if he had interpreted the statement as a shot at Torre, Stottlemyre said: "Yeah. I laughed when I saw that. My first thought was, 'What about Joe?' Joe did a hell of a job, too. To congratulate the other manager and not congratulate your own, after what he's done this year, I laughed."

Stottlemyre's sons Todd and Mel Jr. both followed their father in becoming major league pitchers.

Stottlemyre has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma and is an avid supporter of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

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[edit] Pitching Stats

Year Team G GS W L ERA K R ER CG SHO SV IP H HR BB IB WP HBP
1964 NY A 13 12 9 3 2.06 49 26 22 5 2 0 96 77 3 35 3 1 2
1965 NY A 37 37 20 9 2.63 155 99 85 18 4 0 291 250 18 88 3 5 7
1966 NY A 37 35 12 20 3.80 146 116 106 9 3 1 251 239 18 82 7 8 1
1967 NY A 36 36 15 15 2.96 151 96 84 10 4 0 255 235 20 88 11 5 2
1968 NY A 36 36 21 12 2.45 140 86 76 19 6 0 278.2 243 21 65 7 3 3
1969 NY A 39 39 20 14 2.82 113 105 95 24 3 0 303 267 19 97 11 6 6
1970 NY A 37 37 15 13 3.09 126 110 93 14 0 0 271 262 23 84 8 10 6
1971 NY A 35 35 16 12 2.87 132 100 86 19 7 0 269.2 234 16 69 6 5 4
1972 NY A 36 36 14 18 3.22 110 99 93 9 7 0 260 250 13 85 13 6 4
1973 NY A 38 38 16 16 3.07 95 112 93 19 4 0 273 259 13 79 3 5 5
1974 NY A 16 15 6 7 3.58 40 54 45 6 0 0 113 119 7 37 3 3 4
Total 360 356 164 139 2.97 1257 1003 878 152 40 1 2661.1 2435 171 809 75 57 44

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year Team POS G GS INN PO A ERR DP TP PB SB CS PkO AVG
1964 NY A P 13 12 96 7 20 2 3 0 2 4 3 0 .931
1965 NY A P 37 37 291 30 74 1 3 0 1 12 11 1 .990
1966 NY A P 37 35 251 27 54 3 5 0 3 10 5 1 .964
1967 NY A P 36 36 255 36 60 5 4 0 0 12 6 0 .950
1968 NY A P 36 36 278.2 20 54 0 0 0 0 10 5 0 1.000
1969 NY A P 39 39 303 24 88 5 3 0 4 7 8 0 .957
1970 NY A P 37 37 271 22 51 1 3 0 2 8 4 1 .986
1971 NY A P 35 35 269.2 23 55 4 6 0 3 6 6 0 .951
1972 NY A P 36 36 260 19 52 0 7 0 2 8 4 0 1.000
1973 NY A P 38 38 273 27 48 5 4 0 1 12 10 1 .938
1974 NY A P 16 15 113 7 14 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 1.000
Total P 360 356 2661.1 242 570 26 38 0 18 94 65 4 .969

[edit] Batting Stats

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG 2B 3B BB SO HBP SH SB IBB GDP
1964 NY A 14 37 2 9 0 3 .243 .282 .270 1 0 1 12 1 1 0 0 2
1965 NY A 37 99 8 13 2 8 .131 .140 .232 2 1 1 43 0 9 0 0 0
1966 NY A 37 80 8 11 1 7 .138 .176 .213 1 1 4 31 0 4 0 0 1
1967 NY A 36 82 5 8 0 5 .098 .119 .098 0 0 2 38 0 6 0 0 1
1968 NY A 36 91 4 13 0 5 .143 .210 .176 3 0 8 33 0 3 0 0 3
1969 NY A 39 101 9 18 1 4 .178 .250 .248 2 1 9 41 1 4 0 0 4
1970 NY A 38 85 8 16 2 7 .188 .303 .329 2 2 14 25 0 3 0 0 0
1971 NY A 35 94 6 16 1 11 .170 .210 .213 1 0 5 29 0 3 0 0 1
1972 NY A 37 80 3 16 0 7 .200 .247 .237 1 1 3 18 2 9 0 0 2
1973 NY A 38 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 NY A 19 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 366 749 54 120 7 57 .160 .213 .222 13 6 47 270 4 42 0 0 14

[edit] Transactions

  • Signed as an amateur free agent by New York Yankees (1961).
  • Released by New York Yankees (March 29, 1975).

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