Tim Stahlmann

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 4", Weight 205 lb.

• Born October 11, 1991 in Wilhelmshaven Germany

Biographical Information

Tim Stahlmann has pitched in the Bundesliga and for the German national team.

He was MVP of the German junior league in 2009. That year, he also made his Bundesliga-1 debut, going 3 for 24 with 2 walks and 2 RBI for the Mainz Athletics. He hit .136/.264/.136 for Mainz in 2010 and had a 3.45 ERA in five games pitched. In 2011, he hit .212/.257/.333 as a back-up first baseman and had a 2-2, 2.28 record. The next season, he had 2 saves and a 3.66 ERA, while going 2 for 7 at the plate.

Stahlmann was 3-0 with 5 saves and a 2.87 ERA for the 2013 Athletics. He led the Bundesliga-1 south in saves, two ahead of Jonathan Eisenhuth. In '14, he had a save and a 5.19 ERA. During 2015, he was 1-3 with 2 saves and a 4.53 ERA. He helped Mainz to a title in 2016, moving to the rotation and going 12-1 with a 1.83 ERA and 86 K in 68 2/3 IP. He was 1-0 with 2 saves and a 3.24 ERA in the playoffs as they went to a two-man rotation of Jan-Niclas Stöcklin and Eric Massingham. He was among the league leaders in ERA (4th, between Mike Bolsenbroek and Clayton Voechting), strikeouts (7th), wins (1st, 2 ahead of former US pro Massingham), IP (8th), K/IP (2nd), WHIP (8th), opponent OPS (542, 3rd behind Massingham and Bolsenbroek) and opponent slugging (.245, 1st, .012 ahead of Massingham).

He made the German squad for the 2016 European Championship. He saved Enorbel Marquez's opening win over Sweden, relieving Stöcklin in the 9th with a 4-0 lead, two on and no outs. He struck out Matt Merrifield on a full count, then got Daniel Johnson to hit a comebacker for a game-ending double play. He finished the event with 3 games pitched, 3 innings pitched, 2 hits allowed, 5 walks but no runs and the one K. He was 1-1 with a 5.91 ERA for Mainz in the 2017 European Champions Cup, losing a slugfest to the Rouen Huskies and then beating Bolsenbroek and German rival and host Regensburg Legionäre in the 7th/8th place game.

During the regular season in 2017, he was 9-0 with a 3.26 ERA for Mainz and 5-2 with a 4.47 ERA in the playoffs, but Mainz failed to repeat when they lost to the Heidenheim Heideköpfe in the semifinals. He was 6th in the league in ERA, 3rd with 80 K (behind future MLB call-up Ryan Bollinger and Clayton Freimuth), 2nd in wins (one behind Bollinger), 2nd in IP (17 1/3 behind Bollinger), 8th in K/BB ratio (2.76:1, between Justin Erasmus and Eisenhuth), 6th in K/IP (between Bolsenbroek and Kevin Trisl), 5th in WHIP (1.10) and 4th in opponent OPS (543, between Gianfranco Rizzo and Riley Barr).

He only pitched 2 2/3 IP for Mainz in the 2018 regular season due to an arm injury. He was back in action for the 2018 Super6, though.