Yeah CBS ruined the team. attendance really tanked in the late 60's especially when the mets got good. That reversed by 1976 though.

It wasn't all due to the Draft. Yankees were owned by CBS, who didn't give a Tinker's damn about the team. They lost their major league farm team, the Kansas City A's. And the AL did finally catch up to NY. The league had been the Yankees, one or two competitors and a bunch of dreck. Even the bottom feeders in the 60's, A's, new Senators, Angels were infinitely more competitive than the St. Louis Browns, Philly A's, old Nationals/Senators.
Your future's all used up.

Exactly, the introduction of the draft killed them. It wasn't until FA that they really recovered and became a juggernaut again. Even the dodgers declined, they were scored fewer runs in the whole series against the O's than the O's scored in the FIRST INNING OF THE FIRST GAME. Pretty amazing.
The O's teams of the late 60's were great.

Mel pitched three games in the 1964 Series, winning game 2, ND in Game 5 and got beat by Bob Gibson in Game 7. Then nothing. Yankees had good pitching in the Stottlemyre years, Stan Bahnsen, Al Downing, Fritz Peterson. And some good position players, Bobby Murcer, Roy White, Joe Pepitone. But not enough. And the AL finally caught up with the Yanks. They couldn't compete with the Orioles and teams like the Red Sox, Twins, White Sox (in the 60's) and Tigers quit being cannon fodder for the Bombers.
Your future's all used up.

^^this^^
he was a bright spot in a dark period. he did pith in one world series i believe . . against the cards. the yankees sucked in the late 60's ..then munson and FA came along.
these says, pitcher like that on a team like that would have been traded.

In 1954 he was 13 so how could he be pitching in the majors?
I said "IF" Stottlemyre was with the Yanks in 1954 to 1964, he would have been in the HOF. His numbers, especially wins and winning pct., would be much better if he had played at a time when the Yankees won 8 out of 10 AL Pennants instead of one out of ten.
Your future's all used up.

I thought he was older than 75.
In 1954 he was 13 so how could he be pitching in the majors?
Thx!

One of my favorite Yankees. Active from 1964-1974, he's the poster boy for "right place, wrong time". If Mel had been active from 1954-1964, I think he would have been in the HOF. Or 1944-1954, 1994-2004 and nearly any other stretch. Mel W/L percentage would have been stellar if he had had more than Horace Clarke, Jake Gibbs and Jerry Kenney scoring (or trying) to score runs.
Your future's all used up.