Mel Stottlemyre
Mel Stottlemyre
Melvin Leon "Mel" Stottlemyre, Sr.is an American former professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach. He played for 11 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, and coached for 23 seasons. He is a five-time MLB All-Star and five-time World Series champion, as a coach...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth13 November 1941
CityTexas County, MO
laugh laughter
I'm over that. It did for a while. I laugh at that, too.
conscious great hard kept mean running stolen worked
They worked real hard at that, ... Jorge Posada does a great job. It's been a two-way thing. (The pitchers) are very conscious of their running game. It doesn't mean they're not going to get stolen bases, but we've kept them from running wild.
basically bit felt interfere thinking
I didn't let it interfere with the way I did my job, ... I felt it (wore) a little bit on my thinking on the field. Basically that's why I made the decision.
manager
I laughed, ... My first thought was 'What about Joe?' To congratulate the other team's manager and not Joe?
battle best far good job joe special toughest year
I've been here with Joe for 10 years and this has by far been the toughest year for him, and it's the best job he's done. He's done a good job year in and year out -- this year the job he's done was really special because he had a lot of things to battle through.
conscious great hard kept mean running stolen worked
They worked real hard at that. Jorge Posada does a great job. It's been a two-way thing. (The pitchers) are very conscious of their running game. It doesn't mean they're not going to get stolen bases, but we've kept them from running wild.
conversation minutes sit understand
Nothing I would like more than (to) sit down 30 minutes for a conversation with him. He'd probably understand how I feel. That won't happen.
certainly extra fill groups satisfy separate
I would certainly fill them in with a lot of the extra stuff, ... Sometimes you have to satisfy two separate groups of people. It shouldn't be that way.
everybody needs repair
In my opinion, yes. I don't know how to repair it, but in my opinion, yeah, something needs to be done to have everybody always on the same page.
opinion
It's just my opinion that something has to be done here to get everyone on the same page,
late moment spur
This isn't a spur of the moment decision. I made it in late May.
bottom chance rotation
The bottom end of our rotation has a chance to be tremendous.
answer
I really can't answer that one way or the other.
course difficult forget guess last
It's been really difficult the last month, ... I guess I didn't forget what went on during the course of the year. I never wavered from my decision.