Mel Stottlemyre
Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right • Throws: Right
6-1, 178lb (185cm, 80kg)
20 game winner Mel Stottlemyre hit bases loaded IPHR against Red Sox July 20, 1965. Thursday, July 20, 2017
Mel Stottlemyre had beaten Cardinal Bob Gibson in their first matchup in the 1964 World Series. Gibson beat Stottlemyre in a game seven rematch...
The next season, the first full one for Stottlemyre, he was 20-9 and led the American League in CG, IP, BF. Win number ten came:
Tuesday, July 20, 1965 ...
Yankees 6, Red Sox 3
That win made Stottlemyre 10-5. Stottlemyre allowed a home run to the first Red Sox batter he faced in that game: Jim Gosger, CF...
In the bottom of the fifth inning Stottlemyre did something pretty amazing. Monbouquette put the first three Yankees (Pepitone BB, Boyer 1B, Repoz BB) on base bringing up Stottlemyre. Remember, pitchers still batted in the AL through 1972. This was 1965. Stottlemyre drove one to center field where Gosger was playing. Straight away center was marked as 461 feet and the wall was even further slightly to the left behind the three monuments (Huggins, Gehrig, Ruth), which were on the playing field back then. Stottlemyre rounded the bases for an inside the park grand slam home run. Yankees 6, Red Sox 1...
... his arm fell off by the end of 1974 (113 innings), his final season. Stottlemyre was only 32.
Stottlemyre threw 291 innings in 1965 and at least 251 every season through 1973, with 303 in 1969, Stottlemyre's third and final 20 win season. Stottlemyre was later the pitching coach on five World Series championship teams: one for the Mets and four for the Yankees. Mel Stottlemyre should be considered for the Hall of Fame as a pitching coach.
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Mel Stottlemyre for the Hall of Fame! Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Say what? Mel? Mel Sr.?
Mel Stottlemyre joined the New York Yankees August 12, 1964: 9-3 2.06 ERA. Without Stottlemyre the Yanks probably would have not won their last AL pennant under the old pre common draft dynasty. In the WS against St. Louis Stottlemyre started games 2, 5, 7 all against Gibson. Stottlemyre beat Gibson in game 2. Gibson won game 5 in ten innings; Pete Mikkelsen took the loss. Gibson beat Stottlemyre in game 7.
Mel Stottlemyre was 20-9 in 1965, 21-12 in 1968, 20-14 in 1969. He was an all-star in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970. Arm trouble cut his career short: 164-139 2.97 ERA.
So, Mel Stottlemyre for the Hall of Fame? No, not as a pitcher. As a pitching coach.
Stottlemyre was the pitching coach for five WS champions: Mets 1986 , Yankees 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000.
If a manager had that record he would be elected to the Hall of Fame. So why not a coach? It's better than inducting owners and executives.
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