Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball throughout the day:<\/p>\n
1. Winn OK after car accident:<\/p>\n
Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn<\/a> hit the first walk-off of his career against the Mets in the 11th inning yesterday, but not long after doing so the shortstop was involved in a single-car accident on the interstate near Busch Stadium. As noted by Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>, the Cardinals thankfully announced that Winn is OK after he was examined at a local hospital.<\/p>\n The Cardinals are off today as they travel to Detroit for their first road series of the year. Whether the star shortstop will play remains to be seen, and Goold notes that the team plans to re-evaluate him prior to tomorrow\u2019s game. Thomas Saggese<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn<\/a>, and Ramon Ur\u00edas<\/a> all have infield experience and could sub in for Winn on the infield if needed. Ferm\u00edn and Saggese both have shortstop experience, while Ur\u00edas could plug in at second base if JJ Wetherholt covers short for Winn.<\/p>\n 2. Griffin, Pirates working towards extension:<\/p>\n The Pirates have been working to extend the sport\u2019s top prospect, shortstop Konnor Griffin<\/a>, ahead of his impending MLB debut later this year. ESPN\u2019s Buster Olney characterized the sides as \u201cdeep\u201d into extension talks<\/a> yesterday. The Pirates are seemingly willing to offer Griffin the largest contract in franchise history (surpassing Bryan Reynolds<\/a>\u2018 $100MM deal). That would also top Mariners prospect Colt Emerson<\/a>\u2018s newly secured $95MM deal for the largest ever to a pre-debut player. Will Griffin join Emerson, Cooper Pratt<\/a>, and Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> in signing early-career extensions this spring?<\/p>\n 3. White Sox home opener postponed:<\/p>\n The White Sox announced that today\u2019s scheduled game against the Blue Jays has been postponed until tomorrow. Today was meant to be Chicago\u2019s home opener, but those festivities will now be moved back a day due to an inclement weather forecast for this afternoon. Perla Paredes of MLB.com<\/a> writes that the pitching matchup for the game remains unchanged, with righty Sean Burke<\/a> set to take on former White Sox ace Dylan Cease<\/a> as he returns to town with the Blue Jays. Gates for tomorrow\u2019s home opener will open at 11:10am local time, with first pitch scheduled for 1:10pm. Paredes goes on to note that all tickets for today\u2019s postponed game will be valid for tomorrow\u2019s home opener without any exchanges being necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball throughout the day: 1. Winn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-580920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580920","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=580920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}