{"id":582851,"date":"2026-04-03T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:19:09","slug":"mlb-news-konnor-griffin-abs-challeges-cb-bucknor-tropicana-field-shohei-ohtani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582851\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News: Konnor Griffin, ABS challeges, CB Bucknor, Tropicana Field, Shohei Ohtani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Happy Friday, everyone. We\u2019re getting ever closer to the Cubs\u2019 home opener, which is looking like it might be a typically chilly affair. In the meantime, things are heating up in Pittsburgh, and not just because of the popularity of The Pitt. The Pirates are calling up one of the hottest prospects in baseball, Konnor Griffin, perhaps after seeing how well Kevin McGonigle was doing with the Tigers. It\u2019ll be exciting to see more young talent coming to the MLB stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We also saw a pretty scary injury with umpire CB Bucknor, and some crazy plays all around baseball in the first week of play. We\u2019ve got plenty of little news bites to ease you into the weekend so let\u2019s not waste time and get right to it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Friday, everyone. We\u2019re getting ever closer to the Cubs\u2019 home opener, which is looking like it might&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,285457,12453,188698,591,5147,5133,5132,5149,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-582851","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-cb-bucknor","11":"tag-kevin-mcgonigle","12":"tag-konnor-griffin","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-paul-skenes","15":"tag-pirates","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-shohei-ohtani","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582851","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=582851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}