What if I told you Penning is.....

He's played well the last several weeks and if he can continue to play that way, he could be one of the pieces we need to build a team. I'm not sure how that's a bad thing, but I'm sure I'll be told.
He's definitely earned another season to play in a starting role. He's in a position where we can't really afford for him to not pan out. Need to give him the chances given how young he is and where/when we drafted him. There are a lot of other things to clean up and figure out with the team that Penning will be low on the list if he's even a concern at the end of the season.