2025 Eck Award winner

For the second year in a row, the DMBL's saves leader fell short of winning the Eck Award.

2024 Eck Award Winner: Shelby Miller

Newark's Shelby Miller finished 2nd to Hopactong's Jhoan Duran for the league in saves but came out on top when it came to the 2024 Eck Award.

2023 Eck Award winner: Daniel Bard

A tie for the league lead in saves came down to a difference of opportunities and losses for the 2023 Dennis Eckerlsey Award.

2022 Eck Award winner: Joe Barlow

Rockland Racer rookie reliever Joe Barlow edged out veteran southpaw Will Smith to nab the 2022 Eck Award as the DMBL's top closer.

2021 Eck Award Winner: Liam Hendriks

Liam Hendriks ran away with the 2021 Eck Award, winning by one of the widest margins in recent memory and quietly putting together one of the highest Eck's scores in almost a decade.

2020 Eck Award winner

In some years, relievers play a huge part, saving gobs of games or logging massive innings -- and strikeouts -- coming out of the bullpen. This was not necessarily one of those seasons.

2019 Eck Award winner: Sean Doolittle

The 2019 Eckersley Rolaids Relief Man of the Year results could not have been any closer, with just one point separating the top two relievers, and the award coming down to the final day of the season.

2018 Eck Award winner: Andrew Miller

Chad Green and Andrew Miller were dueling relievers in 2018 as their teams, Marietta and Sardine City, respectively, battled it out for the division last year.

2017 Eck Award winner: Seung Hwan Oh

Seung Hwan Oh was a model of efficiency as Tucson's closer, saving 32 of 33 opportunities for the Kingsnakes last season, on his way to the 2017 Eckersley Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award.

2016 Eck Award winner: Mark Melancon

We'll roll out the 2016 DMBL award winners this week, starting with the Eckersley Rolaids Relief Man of the Year.