{"id":215143,"date":"2026-06-10T01:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215143\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:34:36","slug":"pirates-injury-updates-konnor-griffin-needs-clearance-to-begin-throwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215143\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Injury Updates: Konnor Griffin Needs Clearance to Begin Throwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Griffin2-1-1120x630.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Konnor Griffin, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Photo provided by Matt Lynch\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates have been without the services of shortstop Konnor Griffin since he was placed on the 10-day injured list on May 31 with a low-grade forearm muscle strain.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin started throwing plyos over the weekend and has been taking ground balls at short, but has not yet been cleared to throw. The 20-year-old said that he believes he will start throwing on Wednesday, but Pirates Director of Sports Medicine Todd Tomczyk said he will first have to get cleared by the team physicians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is scheduled to see our team physician in the coming days for hopefully clearance to begin a formal throwing program,\u201d said Tomczyk. \u201cHe\u2019s been clear to hit from day one, so all in all, we\u2019re very encouraged with how Konnor is coming along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomczyk added that Griffin\u2019s injury is \u201cresolving,\u201d and that surgery is not currently under consideration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the clinical exams with subsequent imaging that our team physicians did, that the second opinion physicians did, all the ligament is stable, so that is a very important point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin appeared in 51 games prior to landing on the IL and carries a .270\/327\/.402 with nine doubles, two triples, four home runs, 22 RBI and 14 stolen bases. He\u2019s played 49 games at shortstop and two at designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin is eligible to return on Wednesday but will spend more time on the IL than the minimum 10 days, which was known after meeting with Dr. Keith Meister in Houston last week. <\/p>\n<p>Additional Updates<\/p>\n<p>C Joey Bart (left foot infection) has resumed all baseball activity is expected to begin a rehab assignment in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Chris Devenski (undisclosed illness) and has started a a side program. He will need some time still before gearing up for game activity.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/chris-devenski\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Devenski<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/joey-bart\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Bart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/konnor-griffin\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konnor Griffin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">More about:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo provided by Matt Lynch PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates have been without the services of shortstop Konnor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82627,57212,14709,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-215143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-chris-devenski","tag-joey-bart","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215143","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=215143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}