Education
Jennings attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he played college baseball for the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles. He graduated from William Carey College in 1984.
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He served as a scout in MLB beginning in 1986 and was the manager of the Marlins from May until the end of the 2015 season. Undrafted out of college, Jennings tried out for the New York Yankees in 1984, who signed him. He appeared in spring training for the Greensboro Hornets, the Yankees" Class A affiliate.
Jennings coached the baseball team at Davidson High School in Mobile Alabama.
Jennings became an associate scout for the Cincinnati Reds in 1986, and an area scout for the Seattle Mariners in 1988. The Mariners promoted him to crosschecker in 1995, and he accepted a job with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as their scouting director later that year.
Jennings joined the Marlins as Vice President of Player Personnel in 2002. He was named the Marlins" assistant general manager in September 2007.
At the end of the 2013 season, the Marlins promoted Michael Hill to president and Jennings to general manager.
At one point, there was a pitcher for the Marlins also named Dan Jennings, but the two are not related. Jennings was appointed Marlins" interim manager on May 17, 2015, following the firing of Mike Redmond, with assistant General Motors Mike Berger taking over as general manager. On January 8th, 2016, Jennings was hired by the Washington Nationals to serve as an assistant to Mike Rizzo, the General Motors of the Nationals.
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