Mel Stottlemyre, Jr. | |||
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Seattle Mariners – No. 30 | |||
Pitcher / Pitching coach | |||
Born: Prosser, Washington |
December 28, 1963 |||
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MLB debut | |||
July 17, 1990, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 11, 1990, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Wins-Losses | 0–1 | ||
Earned run average | 4.88 | ||
Strikeouts | 14 | ||
Innings pitched | 31 1⁄3 | ||
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Melvin Leon Stottlemyre, Jr. (born December 28, 1963 in Prosser, Washington) is an American professional baseball coach and a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Royals. He is currently a pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners.
The 6 ft (1.8 m), 190 lb (86 kg) Stottlemyre attended the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He 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.
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.