{"id":114730,"date":"2026-02-15T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:13:15","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-still-seeking-starting-pitching-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114730\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates Still Seeking Starting Pitching Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Prospects Who Can Genuinely Earn an MLB Roster Spot During Spring TrainingSpring training is basically here, which means prospect roster battles are about to get real. On this episode of the Baseball Insiders Prospect Show, Adam Weinrib and Eric Cole run through five prospects who could legitimately compete for Opening Day roster spots (or force early-season call-ups), including Kevin McGonigle and Detroit\u2019s win-now push, Brendan Sproat and the Brewers\u2019 pitching machine, JJ Wetherholt as the Cardinals search for hope, an Angels arm who could get rushed (because\u2026 Angels), and Connor Griffin with the Pirates\u2019 Opening Day question. Plus, we close with a quick Minor League Promotions Corner rant you won\u2019t want to miss. Subscribe for more Prospect Show episodes weekly and Baseball Insiders live streams.<\/p>\n<p>Now PlayingPausedAd Playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Prospects Who Can Genuinely Earn an MLB Roster Spot During Spring TrainingSpring training is basically here, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18203,73,75,74,54643],"class_list":{"0":"post-114730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pirates","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-reinforcements"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}