Former Cardinals pitcher Todd Stottlemyre said he understood why people might have thought, “This guy has it all.”
The year was 1993, before he came to St. Louis to pitch from 1996-98. Stottlemyre’s Toronto Blue Jays team just had won its second consecutive World Series title.
“I was 28 years old. I’m making a million dollars a year playing baseball. I got a chance to grow up in Yankee Stadium when my dad (Mel Stottlemyre) was playing and got to live out my childhood dream,” Stottlemyre said the other day by telephone from Phoenix. “But there was one problem.