Brewers sign Left-Handed RP Dan Jennings

[Never Outhustled]

Drake/Jennings are really just a stopgap until Logan gets back (assuming he does recover), and this deal is probably for like $1M at the most, so I'm not really sweating it that much and we needed another bullpen arm anyways.

 

I don't see us holding onto Drake for long if we have Jennings though. A couple bad outings and my guess is we'll be seeing Taylor Williams.

 

They won't keep Drake once Jennings is activated. That way they can hold on to both Choi and Aguilar until Woodruff leaves pen duty at which time they can add Hoover to the roster.

 

After yesterday's 12 inning game, the team already needs bullpen re-inforcements.

[liveforoctober]

Dan Jennings throws something like 80% sinkers now. 3 years ago he never threw one. He is a completely different pitcher and as someone mentioned above ... he gets grounders AND lefties struggle against his new repertoire.

 

I think he is here to stay.

[MKEguy]

Do we know his price tag yet?

[MNBrew]

Funny that earlier this evening, when they published the Opening Day roster on their Twitter feed, bullpen coach Lee Tunnell was listed as #58 when he's been #43 for a while. I'm a dork about following Brewers uniform numbers, so that caught my attention (no idea why I actually looked at the coaches list). Copying-and-pasting from the coaches roster right now still on Brewers.com:

 

43 Lee Tunnell Bullpen Coach

 

I looked up Dan Jennings on baseball-reference.com and, sure enough, he's only ever worn #43 in his MLB career. The Brewers obviously knew this was going to happen sooner than anyone let on, not that that should be a surprise.

Well, the dots I connected made all the sense in the world -- and that may well be why Tunnell switched to #58 -- then Jennings ends up wearing #38. Funny.