Mel Stottlemyre, Jr.

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

Listed at , , 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. and in 1984 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

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 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 , 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 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, for Buddy Biancalana.

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 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 , 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 Single-A Yakima Bears in , the Single-A Lancaster JetHawks, the Double-A El Paso Diablos, and the Rookie-level Missoula Osprey in –. On December 2, 2013, he returned to the Diamondbacks' Major League staff as bullpen coach under manager Kirk Gibson. He replaced Rick Waits, who was hired after the 2013 season.

Miami Marlins On December 5, 2018, Stottlemyre was hired as pitching coach for the Miami Marlins.

In October 2021, Stottlemyre revealed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in February of the same year. Stottlemyre had his prostate removed in October and announced that he still planned to coach the 2022 season.

On October 31, 2022, the Marlins signed Stottlemyre to a multi–year contract extension. On October 2, 2024, Stottlemyre was fired alongside the entirety of the Marlins coaching staff.