Happy to report that Mel Stottlemyre’s health is much-improved as he continues to battle multiple myeloma, the blood cancer he was diagnosed with in 1999.
u200b“This is the best I’ve been in some time," Stottlemyre said by phone from his Seattle-area home. “I’m doing a lot better than when people saw me in New York."
Yes, everyone was bracing for the worst after Stottlemyre’s poignant, I’m-ready-to-coach-in-Heaven speech on Old-Timers Day last summer, when the Yankees surprised their former ace and pitching coach with a plaque that has a permanent spot in Monument Park.
But Stottlemyre says that a change in medication has had a miraculous effect over the last few months.