{"id":155457,"date":"2026-04-02T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:27:20","slug":"pirates-to-recall-top-prospect-konnor-griffin-for-home-opener-at-pnc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155457\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates to recall top prospect Konnor Griffin for home opener at PNC Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates will open their home schedule on Friday, and one of their top prospects, Konnor Griffin, is expected to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Opening Debut. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ILemWfjIHS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/ILemWfjIHS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/status\/2039709840944054769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griffin did not make the club out of Spring Training, but in just 13 at-bats with Triple-A Indianapolis, he has three hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the minor leagues last season, the 6&#8217;3&#8243;, 222-pound shortstop had a .333 batting average and a .941 OPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Griffin was picked 9th overall by the Pirates in the 2024 draft, and along with his great offensive stats in Triple-A, he also won a MiLB Golden Glove Award last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates are also, reportedly, in negotiations to get Griffin signed long-term, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48370345\/sources-pirates-konnor-griffin-holding-contract-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates will open their home schedule on Friday at 4:12 p.m. at PNC Park against the Baltimore Orioles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re currently 3-3 and have won back-to-back games over the Cincinnati Reds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates will open their home schedule on Friday, and one of their top prospects, Konnor Griffin, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31271,73,75,74,10997,26622],"class_list":{"0":"post-155457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-mlb-draft","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pnc-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457","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=155457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}