Mel Stottlemyre (1941-2019)

[Edgy MD]

The Daily News is https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sports-mel-stottlemyre-mets-yankees-obit-20190114-story.htmlreporting on the passing of Mel Stottlemyer, star pitcher of the 1960s and pitching coach for the Mets for 10 impressive years, including the World Championship year of 1986.

[86dreamer]

Verry sorry to hear that - may he rest in peace. A great pitcher and coach. Nice article by Madden. I did not know the story of the Steinbrenner apology and Mel's insistence on the additional 40k signing bonus to become the Yankees pitching coach.

[kcmets]

RIP, Coach...

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[G-Fafif]

Shepherded Gooden, Darling, Fernandez, Aguilera, Cone, McDowell and Myers into long-lasting, successful major league careers. That's some coaching right there.

[metirish]

Rest in peace Mel , always like hearing Darling talk about him from time to time.

[whippoorwill]

Very sad

[MFS62]

As much as I disliked him as an MFY pitcher, I liked him as a Met coach.

RIP.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

=86dreamer post_id=1133 time=1547489496 user_id=97] I did not know the story of the Steinbrenner apology and Mel's insistence on the additional 40k signing bonus to become the Yankees pitching coach.

[Edgy MD]

Steinbrenner burned him at the end of his coaching tenure also.

[ashie62]

He lived a long time with Multiple Myeloma. r.i.p.

[kcmets]

Mel named his boat Mo In The Ninth! according to a Cone tweet.