For a lot of the years Mel Stottlemyre served as pitching coach of theNew York Yankees, he made it easy for everybody to forget he was in treatment for a life-threatening illness. Because he never ...

The City of Mabton unveiled a commemorative bat, ball and sign in honor of hometown hero and longtime New York Yankees ...

NEW YORK -- The Yankees had a surprise in store for Mel Stottlemyre. And what a surprise it was. The Yankees stunned their former ace/pitching coach by honoring him with a plaque in Monument Park as ...

Former New York Yankees pitcher Mel Stottlemyre's health has improved, and he is "looking forward to getting out of the hospital," according to his son, Todd, in a Facebook post Saturday. A day before ...

Last December, about a month before he died, pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre helped his son, Mel Jr., with a decision about his job. Junior couldn't decide among several offers about what ...

Before he was a seemingly out-of-nowhere savior for the New York Yankees’ 1964 American League pennant chase and five-time all-star for the Bronx Bombers, Mel Stottlemyre was a ...

The Marlins parted ways with their entire coaching staff and about a dozen employees overall this week, multiple sources said. The departures are headlined by pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. and ...

“A good hitting coach,” the late baseball writer Leonard Koppett once told me, “can add five or six points to a team’s batting average.” But a good pitching coach, he thought, “had about the same ...

NEW YORK The losses are starting to pile up for Joe Torre, whose trusted pitching coach of 10 years basically resigned before George Steinbrenner could fire him. But Mel Stottlemyre did not exit ...

Mel Stottlemyre Jr., entering his sixth year as the Miami Marlins’ pitching coach, always embraces a challenge. He lives to find ways to get the best out of his pitchers and, more often than not, he ...

The gutting of the Miami Marlins’ coaching staff includes pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. According to reports from MLB.com and the Miami Herald, Marlins president of baseball operations Peter ...