{"id":160497,"date":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","slug":"konnor-griffin-has-joined-paul-skenes-in-pittsburgh-whose-window-to-win-now-feels-wide-open-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160497\/","title":{"rendered":"Konnor Griffin has joined Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, whose window to win now feels wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"36RENXSYMZGQ5LLGQ3UB7FB6QU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cy-young-award-tarik-skubal-paul-skenes-c4e112b92d19e8f8b5825e14452610a5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Skenes<\/a> on the mound. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konnor Griffin<\/a> at shortstop. Two first-round picks drafted a year apart \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pirates-paul-skenes-lsu-17716edf28cdad923726959b2e671bca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skenes in 2023<\/a> , Griffin in 2024 \u2014 who have embraced the pressure that comes with being labeled the cornerstones of a franchise that appears intent on being taken seriously in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes on the mound. Konnor Griffin at shortstop. Two first-round picks drafted a year apart \u2014 Skenes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71344,4662,72475,71339,31296,71342,71341,66315,71343,71340,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-160497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-2026-mlb-schedule","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bbo-pirates-young-stars","11":"tag-mlb-2026-news","12":"tag-mlb-baseball","13":"tag-mlb-highlights","14":"tag-mlb-latest-news","15":"tag-mlb-news","16":"tag-mlb-schedule-2026","17":"tag-mlb-scores","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","20":"tag-pittsburgh-news","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160497","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=160497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}