{"id":555725,"date":"2026-03-21T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:58:07","slug":"pirates-reassign-top-prospect-konnor-griffin-to-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555725\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates reassign top prospect Konnor Griffin to minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRADENTON, Fla. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> debut for highly touted 19-year-old prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5218285\/konnor-griffin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konnor Griffin<\/a> will have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin was reassigned to minor league camp on Saturday after the shortstop spent the last few weeks showcasing the skills that have made him baseball&#8217;s No. 1 overall prospect, according to MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Don Kelly called the decision to leave Griffin off the season-opening roster &#8220;extremely difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The talent that you see, I think he handled himself really well professionally,&#8221; Kelly told reporters. &#8220;We talk about the maturity level as a 19-year-old in big league camp. Really excited about him being a Pirate and what that means for the future of Konnor Griffin and the Pirates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Griffin homered four times and had nine RBI in 16 Grapefruit League games, but he batted just .171 and struck out 13 times in 41 at-bats. After Griffin garnered so much attention this spring because of his status as one of the game&#8217;s top prospects, Kelly believed a return to the minors could allow the infielder to reassert himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you see a young kid that was maybe pressing just a little bit and trying really hard,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;Konnor Griffin the person is elite. Allowing him to go and get back to basics and being Konnor Griffin out there (could help). We know there&#8217;s an elite talent level that comes with him. Just looking forward to him being in Pittsburgh whenever that time comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. &#8212; The Pittsburgh Pirates debut for highly touted 19-year-old prospect Konnor Griffin will have to wait.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-555725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}