{"id":577582,"date":"2026-04-02T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:56:07","slug":"report-pirates-promote-no-1-prospect-konnor-griffin-to-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577582\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pirates promote No. 1 prospect Konnor Griffin to MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLB&#8217;s top prospect is headed to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin is expected to debut immediately for the Pirates as they welcome the Baltimore Orioles for their first home series of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was off to a fast start at triple-A, batting .438 with seven hits (three doubles) over his first 16 at-bats along with five walks.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin struggled some during spring training, batting just .171 in Grapefruit League while mashing four home runs.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the Pirates as the ninth overall pick in the 2024 draft out of Jackson Preparatory High School in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates are 3-3 through six games on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB&#8217;s top prospect is headed to the show. Griffin is expected to debut immediately for the Pirates as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-577582","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\/577582","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=577582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}