BRONX, NY - MAY 7: New York Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre walks from the bullpen to the dugout before the Yankees game against the Oakland Athletics on May 7, 2005 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mel Stottlemyre Jr. didn’t have to return to the Miami Marlins. The pitching coach’s contract expired at the end of last season and a new manager was entering in Skip Schumaker. Stottlemyre had other ...

“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 ...

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 ...