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 was his lowest since his 1977 season with the Guayama Brujos, and his assists total his lowest since 1976 with the Santos de San Juan, when he averaged 0.3 assists per game. Melendez returned to the Caguas Criollos for his last season as an active player in the BSN. There, he played 29 games, once again lifting his per game numbers, as he scored 309 points for an average of 10.9, with 129 assists (4.4 a game) and 53 rebounds (an average of 1.8 rebounds a game). Melendez retired as a member of an exclusive group of Puerto Rican players to have scored over 5,000 points during his BSN career (5,000 or more points scorers being considered an exclusive group since the BSN seasons consists usually of between 30 and 33 games only; a handful of players have reached that number of points in Puerto Rican professional basketball history) having scored 6,312 points for an average of 12.2 points a game, with 2,115 assists for an average of 4.1 and 1,070 rebounds, averaging 2.1 rebounds a game. He is a one time BSN champion, having won the 1986 title with the Polluelos de Aibonito. Some Puerto Rican basketball players of the same era: