Mel Stottlemyre played for 11 seasons in Major League Baseball, all for the New York Yankees, and coached for 23 seasons, for the Yankees, New York Mets, Houston Astros, and Seattle Mariners.
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16 Facts About Mel Stottlemyre
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Mel Stottlemyre was a five-time MLB All-Star as a player and a five-time World Series champion as a coach.
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Mel Stottlemyre alternated between starting and relieving for Richmond, before Ralph Houk, the Yankees' general manager, insisted that Stottlemyre be used exclusively as a starting pitcher.
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Mel Stottlemyre bested Gibson in Game 2 to even the series, and got a no-decision in Game 5, but lost the decisive Game 7 as the Cardinals won the Series.
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Mel Stottlemyre was named to the American League's roster for the 1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, though he did not appear in the game.
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Mel Stottlemyre won 20 games in the 1965 season, and led the AL with 18 complete games, 291 innings pitched, and 1,188 batters faced.
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Mel Stottlemyre threw 40 shutouts in his 11-season career, the same number as Hall of Fame lefty Sandy Koufax, which ties for 44th best all-time.
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In 1977, Mel Stottlemyre re-emerged in baseball as a roving instructor for the Seattle Mariners.
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Mel Stottlemyre spent five seasons in that position, and was hired by the New York Mets as their pitching coach in November 1983.
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Mel Stottlemyre served in the role for ten years and then followed that by serving a two-year stint as the Houston Astros pitching coach.
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Mel Stottlemyre cited personal disagreements with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner among his reasons for leaving and cited Steinbrenner's comment that, after the division series was over, he had congratulated Angels manager Mike Scioscia.
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Mel Stottlemyre was named pitching coach of the Seattle Mariners under manager John McLaren at the beginning of the 2008 season, and was retained by interim manager Jim Riggleman after McLaren's firing.
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Mel Stottlemyre was inducted into the Washington State American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Mel Stottlemyre was raised in the town of Mabton, Washington, located in the south-central part of the state.
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Mel Stottlemyre died on January 13,2019 at the age of 77, of cancer.
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