By Cary Osborne

Maybe it’s a song or a movie or something else. You’re in the moment and it sort of comes and goes. And then it comes around again, for one reason or another, and you realize that maybe you missed something special the first time around.

It’s not too late to appreciate the kind of season Yimi Garcia had. Would you be surprised if I told you he was arguably one of the 30 best relief pitchers in Major League Baseball in 2015? Certainly it’s at the tail of the top 30, but Garcia’s numbers make for a reasonable argument.

Garcia ranked in the top 30 among relief pitchers in the following categories:

SO/BB: 6.6 (fifth)

WHIP: 0.91 (eighth)

Opponents’ OBP: .242 (10th)

Baserunners per nine innings: 8.56 (12th)

BB/9: 1.65 (17th)

SO/9: 10.87 (25th)

Opponents OPS: .370 (28th)

The strikeout-to-walk ratio is the best in Dodger rookie reliever history and the WHIP is fourth behind Wheezer Dell (0.86, 1915), Paco Rodriguez (0.90, 2013) and Takashi Saito (2006, 0.906). Garcia is at 0.914 stretched to the thousandth.

Here’s where Garcia won’t convince people that he was one of the 30 best. There were 68 qualifying relief pitchers with a better ERA than his 3.13. He was also demoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City on July 8 after allowing 16 earned runs in 23 innings from May 11 to July 6. He gave up seven home runs in that span.

But he allowed just one other home run the entire season.

Garcia is an intriguing pitcher. His 55.9 percent flyball percentage was second highest in the big leagues behind Tyler Clippard (60.6 percent). Yet his 9.2 percent home runs per fly ball mark was 75th.

Just 25 years old, the right-hander has some other numbers that might lead one to believe that the best is yet to come, and with some experience and more pitching savvy, he has a bright future ahead of him.

Garcia is primarily a two-pitch pitcher — fourseam fastball and slider. That fourseam fastball produced 33.99 whiffs per swing, according to Baseball Prospectus, which ranked fifth among relievers. His 31.98 percent put-away percentage — the PITCHf/x leaderboard term for whiff rate with two strikes, was second behind Aroldis Chapman at 32.09 percent.

His slider allowed the fourth lowest slugging percentage (.167) and 20th lowest batting average (.167), according to Baseball Prospectus, among relief pitchers who threw the pitch at least 200 times. It’s less of a swing and miss pitch and more of an out-getting pitch.

Garcia has the makings of being an elite reliever if he learns to use the pitches better in tandem, and maybe continues develop a changeup that he threw just 11 times, according to Brooks Baseball.

On top of all that, Garcia was efficient last year. He averaged 14.6 pitches per inning, 17th best in the Majors. On June 7, he recorded four outs on just four pitches against St. Louis, becoming the first reliever to record four outs on four pitches in an appearance since the Rangers’ Brian Shouse on May 27, 2003 at Tampa Bay.

Garcia also allowed 22.7 percent of inherited runners to score (five of 27 inherited runners), well below the Major League reliever average of 29.5 percent.

We’re months away from the season starting, but Garcia is reason to get excited.