MLB / Players

Mel Stottlemyre

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornNovember 13, 1941 · Hazleton, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 12, 1964

Final gameAugust 16, 1974

Seasons11 (1964–1974)

New York Yankees 1964–1974

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

77.9

66.3

90.7

SHO

79.1

259

22.1

46.5

38.4

17.4

88.4

273.0

79.1

ERA

3.07

75.6

WHIP

1.238

62.8

K/9

3.13

FIP

3.43

68.6

FIP-

93.0

59.3

ERA+

120.2

76.7

sWAR

4.7

83.7

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.6

78.1

sWAR

40.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1964	14	40	37	2	9	1	0	0	3	1	12	0	.243	.282	.270	.552	52.5	55.2	.258	3.0
1965	37	109	99	8	13	2	1	2	8	1	43	0	.131	.140	.232	.372	-9.0	4.8	.166	5.8
1966	37	89	80	8	11	1	1	1	7	4	31	0	.138	.176	.213	.389	5.3	13.4	.180	1.1
1967	36	90	82	5	8	0	0	0	5	2	38	0	.098	.119	.098	.217	-49.5	-34.0	.106	2.6
1968	36	103	91	4	13	3	0	0	5	8	33	1	.143	.210	.176	.386	14.0	20.1	.193	4.6
1969	39	116	101	9	18	2	1	1	4	9	41	1	.178	.250	.248	.498	42.2	43.2	.242	5.9
1970	38	102	85	8	16	2	2	2	7	14	25	0	.188	.303	.329	.632	84.2	79.3	.302	5.0
1971	35	103	94	6	16	1	0	1	11	5	29	0	.170	.210	.213	.423	11.4	21.0	.203	4.8
1972	37	94	80	3	16	2	1	0	7	3	18	0	.200	.247	.250	.497	46.0	50.9	.241	2.1
1973	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.7
1974	19	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1964	13	12	9	3	0	5	2	77	22	35	49	3	96.0	2.06	1.167	4.59	3.00	82.8	175.7	3.0
1965	37	37	20	9	0	18	4	250	85	88	155	18	291.0	2.63	1.162	4.79	3.12	91.3	129.9	5.8
1966	37	35	12	20	1	9	3	239	106	82	146	18	251.0	3.80	1.279	5.24	3.20	96.0	87.6	1.1
1967	36	36	15	15	0	10	4	235	84	88	151	20	255.0	2.96	1.267	5.33	3.31	106.0	105.4	2.6
1968	36	36	21	12	0	19	6	243	76	65	140	21	278.7	2.45	1.105	4.52	2.93	101.4	117.7	4.6
1969	39	39	20	14	0	24	3	267	95	97	113	19	303.0	2.82	1.201	3.36	3.45	99.4	123.0	5.9
1970	37	37	15	13	0	14	0	262	93	84	126	23	271.0	3.09	1.277	4.18	3.60	101.6	114.6	5.0
1971	35	35	16	12	0	19	7	234	86	69	132	16	269.7	2.87	1.124	4.41	2.96	86.2	119.8	4.8
1972	36	36	14	18	0	9	7	250	93	85	110	13	260.0	3.22	1.288	3.81	3.10	104.1	92.6	2.1
1973	38	38	16	16	0	19	4	259	93	79	95	13	273.0	3.07	1.238	3.13	3.43	93.0	120.2	4.7
1974	16	15	6	7	0	6	0	119	45	37	40	7	113.0	3.58	1.381	3.19	3.76	105.6	99.3	1.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

366

846

749

120

RBI

270

.1602

OBP

.2127

SLG

.2230

OPS

.4357

Pitching

G (P)

360

356

207th-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

139

217th-most career L

152

221st-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

2,661

212th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,257

356th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

809

247th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.969

168th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2189

225th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.25

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
1964-09-26	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	2	6
1969-05-27	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1968-05-21	NYY @ TEX Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	4
1965-07-20	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	4	4
1966-08-03	NYY @ LAA Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1965-06-09	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	10
1968-05-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	10
1964-09-22	NYY @ CLE Gameday	8.1	8	3	2	3	9
1966-06-29	NYY @ BOS Gameday	6.2	7	4	3	4	9
1965-06-05	CWS @ NYY Gameday	10.0	7	3	2	8	8

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.