Today In Brewer History: Farewell, Geoff Jenkins

by Kyle Lobner on Dec 20, 2011 6:00 AM CST in History

On this day in 2007 Geoff Jenkins signed a two year deal with the Phillies, effectively ending his Brewer career.

Jenkins was a rare draft success for the mid-90's Brewers, who selected the USC outfielder with the ninth overall pick in 1995. He made his Brewer debut as a 23 year old in 1998 and was a mainstay in left field for most of the next ten years. His best season came in 2000, when he hit .303/.360/.588 with a career high 34 home runs.

Jenkins finished his Brewer career with a .275/.347/.496 batting line over 1234 games. He's third on the Brewer all time list with 212 home runs, fourth with 704 RBI, fifth with 661 runs and is tied for the franchise record with 95 HBP.

After spending one season as a Phillie, being released and taking a year off, Jenkins returned to the Brewers for one day to announce his retirement in 2010.

With help from Brewerfan.net and the B-Ref Play Index, happy birthday today to:

Huntsville Star Santo Manzanillo, who turns 23.
Nashville Sound Amaury Rivas, who turns 26.
Chris Narveson, who turns 30.
1977-87 Brewer Cecil Cooper, who turns 62.
Watertown, Wisconsin native Fred Merkle, who would have turned 123. Merkle played 16 major league seasons between 1907-26 as a member of the New York Giants and three other teams.

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It's too bad Geoff wasn't the 9th overall pick in 2006!

He would have had a lot more talent surrounding him, and it would be great to have Jenkins this coming season entering his ‘3rd year at age 25’ : )

2010 – Rookie (Though I’m not sure Ken Macha would have let him play after about a week).
2011 – .313/.371/.564

2012 – .303/.360/.588/ .948 ops/137 ops+ and then steal 11 bases and collect 15 HBPs. Since this is not happening, I’ll just add 2 or 3 more items and then forget about all of this.
1.) 4.5 combined WAR . . .
2.) Salary just above league minimum…
(And, in the off-season 2011, he works diligently at his new position…1B).

So, who knows how to accelerate 7/21/74 so that it turns to 7/21/84?

FanGraphs should consider a venue for a Gallery Night... they could even serve a cake with a Win Expectancy Chart of the 7/7/11 Brewers' game etched in the frosting, and 7-up. Oh, yeah - and t-shirts that say "SABR-Friday." I'm totally there.

by Jess'HittheBall on Dec 20, 2011 7:59 AM CST reply actions

It's 2 AM and you probably won't see this now, but I realized something that was wrong in this story.

The deal Jenkins signed with Philadelphia was for two years (plus an option for a third). He only played one year under the deal and was cut before year two.

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by -JP- on Dec 21, 2011 1:59 AM CST reply actions

Fixed, thanks

Now that's great tasting chicken!

by Kyle Lobner on Dec 21, 2011 11:38 AM CST up reply actions

Most painful-by-association moment in my Brewers fandom life...

The first Brewer game I ever attended was on June 17, 2002, where my one vivid memory is of Jenkins sliding into third, with his ankle imploding under him and…fracturing? Dislocating? I forget. One of the worst injuries I’ve ever seen, made worse by seeing it after the game in slow-motion. Needless to say, I quickly learned that baseball was not just a 19th century pastoral game.

2002 really sucked for everyone not named Jose Hernandez or Richie Sexson. All the credit in the world belongs to Geoff for bouncing back from that injury as strongly as he did.

His jiggling is almost hypnotic.

by Morbidly-Obese, Right-Handed Jamie Moyer on Dec 22, 2011 8:23 AM CST reply actions

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