titles during the late '80s, and they had Angel Santiago, Enrique Aponte and Rolando Frazer, to whom Melendez could feed the ball during plays. The Melendez-Frazer duo is one of the best remembered in Puerto Rican basketball history. (in Spanish). During his first season as a Polluelo, Melendez scored 14.0 points a game, fed for 6.9 assists (surpassing the 200 assists in one season for the first time in his career with 229, Melendez led the BSN league in assists that year) and grabbed 2.5 rebounds a game while shooting 57% from the field, 42% from the three point line and 77% from the free throws line, helping the Polluelos win their first, and, as of 2021, only league championship by beating the defending champions, Jose Ortiz, Bobby Rios and the Atleticos de San German in seven games during the BSN Finals. During the 1987 season, the defending champions Polluelos continued being a viable contender to repeat as titleholders, but Melendez's personal numbers decreased a little bit. He scored 11 points a game, handling 5.8 assists and catching 2.2 rebounds per game, while shooting 46% from the field, 36% from the three point line and 70% from the free throw line. The Polluelos returned to the BSN Finals, where they were defeated by the Titanes de Morovis in seven games. However, Melendez's numbers climbed again during the 1988 season, when he scored 16.9 points a game, with 209 assists for an average of 6.3 per game and 70 rebounds for 2.1 a game in the rebounding category. The Polluelos reached the playoffs but were eliminated during the quarterfinals. In 1989, Melendez played during 30 games, scoring 327 points, assisting 170 times and rebounding 60 times for averages of 10.9, 5.7 and 2.0, respectively. Between 1990 and 1991, Melendez was traded three times between the Aibonito Polluelos and the Vaqueros de Bayamon in the northern Puerto Rican city of Bayamon. His production numbers decreased as he was getting older and playing against younger competition; nevertheless he completed a 30-game season during 1990 between Aibonito and Bayamon, averaging a total of 9.2 points per game, with 3.9 assists and 2.1 rebounds a game. He returned to the Polluelos for the season's final ten games. He played 19 games for the Vaqueros in 1991, scoring 47 points for an average of 2.5 points per game, 1.6 assists and 1.1 rebounds. His points total