Mel Stottlemyre Jr.

Melvin Leon Stottlemyre Jr. (born December 28, 1963) is an American professional baseball pitching coach and a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, who played for the Kansas City Royals.

Mel Stottlemyre Jr.
Stottlemyre Jr. in 1988
Miami Marlins – No. 30
Pitcher / Pitching coach
Born: (1963-12-28) December 28, 1963
Prosser, Washington
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
July 17, 1990, for the Kansas City Royals
Last MLB appearance
September 11, 1990, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Win–loss record0–1
Earned run average4.88
Strikeouts14
Teams

As Coach

Listed at 6 ft (1.8 m), 190 lb (86 kg), Stottlemyre is the son of former New York Yankees starting pitcher and longtime MLB pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and the elder brother of Todd Stottlemyre, who won 138 games during a 14-year big-league career.[1]

Amateur career

Stottlemyre attended the University of Nevada-Las Vegas,[1] and in 1984 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[2]

Professional career

Houston Astros

Stottlemyre was selected in the 1982 Major League Baseball draft by the Seattle Mariners, but did not sign. He was later drafted in the January Secondary 1985 Major League Baseball draft by the Houston Astros. Stottlemyre began his playing career in 1985 with the Class-A Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League in the Astros organization. In his first year, he went 5–4 with a 2.75 earned run average (ERA) in 14 games, 13 starts.

In 1986, Stottlemyre split the season between the Class-A Asheville Tourists and the Class-A Osceola Astros. He went 3–1 with a 2.10 ERA in seven games, all starts. With Osceola, Stottlemyre went 0–7 with a 7.82 ERA in nine games, eight starts. This gave him a combined record of 3–8 with a 5.01 ERA on the year.

Stottlemyre began the 1987 season with the Double-A Columbus Astros of the Southern League. He was traded by the Astros to the Kansas City Royals on July 29, 1987 for Buddy Biancalana.[3]

Kansas City Royals

After the trade, Stottlemyre was assigned to the Double-A Memphis Chicks of the Southern League. He went a combined 7–6 with a 4.31 ERA in 20 games, all starts.

He played the 1988 season with the Double-A Memphis Chicks. He went 3–2 with a 2.40 ERA in seven games, all starts.

In a one-season career at the Major League level in 1990, Stottlemyre posted a 0–1 record with 14 strikeouts, a 4.88 ERA, and 31⅓ innings in 13 games pitched, two as a starter.

Coaching career

Stottlemyre began his coaching career while with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, serving as their pitching coach. Stottlemyre also served as a pitching coach for the Class-A Yakima Bears in 2002, the Class-A Lancaster JetHawks, the Double-A El Paso Diablos, and the Rookie-level Missoula Osprey in 2005–2006.[1]

On May 7, 2009, Stottlemyre was hired as the pitching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks after Bryan Price, the former Diamondbacks pitching coach, resigned.[4] He was released as pitching coach after the 2010 season, but remained in the D-backs' organization as a roving minor-league pitching instructor.[5][6] On December 2, 2013, he returned to the Diamondbacks' Major League staff as bullpen coach under manager Kirk Gibson.[6]

On October 26, 2015, Stottlemyre was announced as the new pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners during manager Scott Servais' inaugural press conference.[7] He replaced Rick Waits, who was hired after the 2013 season.[8]

In December of 2018, Stottlemyre was hired as pitching coach for the Miami Marlins.[9]

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See also

References
  1. "Player Development" (PDF). Arizona Diamondbacks. arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
  2. "Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League" (PDF). capecodbaseball.org. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  3. "Biancalana sent to Houston for Stottlemyre". Lawrence Journal-World. Lawrence Journal-World. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. "Diamondbacks fire Melvin, name Hinch manager". sportingnews.com. Associated Press. May 7, 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
  5. "Diamonbacks hire minor league coordinators". USA Today. December 13, 2010.
  6. mlb.com
  7. http://www.seattlepi.com/sports/baseball/article/New-Mariners-manager-Scott-Servais-says-he-s-6591604.php
  8. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10035668/howard-johnson-new-seattle-mariners-hitting-coach
  9. https://www.apnews.com/ea9440c746ff489ea2a92ed791be4775

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Bryan Price		 Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach
2009–2010		 Succeeded by
Charles Nagy
Preceded by
Glenn Sherlock		 Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen coach
2014–2015		 Succeeded by
Garvin Alston
Preceded by
Rick Waits		 Seattle Mariners pitching coach
2016–2018		 Succeeded by
Paul Davis
Preceded by
Juan Nieves		 Miami Marlins pitching coach
2019		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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