In the early going last season, it looked the bullpen was going to be the Achilles heel for the Milwaukee Brewers. It didn’t take long for Neftali Feliz, the man who was signed as a free agent to be closer, to falter and get released. Jhan Marinez had a rough go of it before getting DFA’d. Tommy Milone struggled and was let go. Jared Hughes and Carlos Torres got off to slow starts. But the tide began to turn in mid-May, when the move was made to install young Corey Knebel in the closer’s role.
Knebel obviously became a dynamo pitching out of the pen for Milwaukee last season.