{"id":430160,"date":"2026-01-24T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430160\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:51:14","slug":"pirates-konnor-griffin-named-mlbs-top-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430160\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Konnor Griffin named MLB&#8217;s top prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin was named the No. 1 prospect in baseball by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/2026\/top100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Pipeline<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin topped the list after an impressive 2025 season where he slashed .333\/.415\/.527 with 21 home runs, 94 RBIs, and 65 steals across three minor-league levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi native was selected ninth overall by the Pirates in the 2024 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Pipeline&#8217;s top five prospects for 2026 are all shortstops.<\/p>\n<p>RANK<br \/>\nPLAYER<br \/>\nTEAM<br \/>\nPOS.<br \/>\nAGE<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nKonnor Griffin<br \/>\nPirates<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\n19<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nKevin McGonigle<br \/>\nTigers<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\n21<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nJes\u00fas Made<br \/>\nBrewers<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\n18<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\n Leo De Vries<br \/>\nAthletics<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\n19<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nJJ Wetherholt<br \/>\nCardinals<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\n23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin was named the No. 1 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-430160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}