Summarizing Mark Melancon’s 2021 season

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Boy, did the Atlanta Braves miss Mark Melancon this year. They could’ve had him for $3 million but that’s their loss. The Padres ended up signing the veteran reliever for that same amount of money and he was a bargain.

Yes, there were times where he made Padres fans almost puke (July 17 against the Reds for example), but those were far and few between. He was arguably the best closer in baseball in 2021.

People forget that he wasn’t even a lock to be the closer going into Spring Training because Jayce Tingler was leaning towards going with the closer by committee.

Drew Pomeranz, Emilio Pagan, and Keone Kela were fine with pitching in whatever role they were…