{"id":144865,"date":"2026-03-21T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:56:09","slug":"pirates-konnor-griffin-doesnt-make-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144865\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Konnor Griffin Doesn&#8217;t Make Opening Day Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">With just days left before the Pittsburgh Pirates head to Citi Field and take on the New York Mets on Opening Day, the club made a controversial decision while cutting down their roster. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">The Pirates announced that Konnor Griffin has been reassigned to minor league camp, meaning he will not crack the 26-man roster to open the regular season. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ROSTER MOVE: We have reassigned INF Konnor Griffin to minor league camp. There are now 34 players remaining in Major League camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/2035448674105323816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">Griffin is ranked as the No. 1 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline, Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America. The 19-year-old was the No. 9 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft and posted a .941 OPS with 21 home runs, 94 RBIs and a whopping 64 stolen bases over 122 combined games between Low-A Bradenton, High-A Greensboro and Double-A Altoona. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">Despite his age, Griffin appears ready to make the leap to the big leagues, but the Pirates have delayed his debut for the time being.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/pirates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Make sure to visit Pirates OnSI for the latest news, updates, interviews and insight on the Pittsburgh Pirates!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just days left before the Pittsburgh Pirates head to Citi Field and take on the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-144865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144865","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=144865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}