​Milwaukee Brewers closer Trevor Megill took third place in the voting for the inaugural Reliever of the Year award from the Baseball Writers Association of America.San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller won the award in the National League, running away as expected with all 30 first-place votes. Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Jhoan Duran was the runner-up.The award is separate from the Trevor Hoffman (NL) and Mariano Rivera Awards, which are given out by the league to the top reliever in each league. Megill notched 30 saves for the second consecutive season and finished with a 2.63 earned run average across 63 games and 61⅔ innings. Megill struck out 10.1 batters per nine innings, a dip from 2025 when he had 11.5 K/9 as an all-star, but he limited his walks to a career-best 2.2 per nine innings.After a very brief blip in early April, Megill was as dominant as any reliever in baseball, pitching to a 1.59 ERA and 1.65 Fielding Independent Pitching over his final 57 games of the year. Manager Pat Murphy briefly removed Megill from the closer’s role on April 14 following consecutive disastrous outings in which he allowed seven earned runs and retired three batters.Megill allowed just 10 earned runs the rest of the way, and he gave up only one homer all season, which didn’t come until Sept. 2.The 32-year-old received two second-place votes and 11 third-place votes to narrowly edge out Padres setup man Adrian Morejon for third place. Coincidentally, Miller and Morejon were the losing pitchers in the first two games of the National League Division Series against the Brewers.This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Here’s where Brewers closer Trevor Megill finished in award voting