It almost feels cruel, you know, to have a legitimate hitting prospect put into this particular system. Good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm Dan Colotra, which of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. Comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins where you found this. If I sound a little bit off today, let's just say it was a rough weekend. but I'm feeling a lot better right now.

Just a cold, nothing big, but man, it hit really, really hard.

Kind of like that.

Connor Griffin home run the other day.

You like that for a transition, huh?

Smooth?

Yeah?

Griffin, the Pirates' first round pick went Opos Saturday in Sarasotaota and he made it look a little bit easy.

And that's the way he makes a lot of things look, including in the field, on the base paths and everywhere.

That is because he is 6 feet 4, 218 pounds.

Every millifraction of him, a superb athlete, and yeah, he's got some ball in him too. I got to tell you, the first day that I was in Bradenton this spring, He was standing in his locker,

T-shirts short,

so he didn't have the full,

you know,

baseball apparatus on him.

And I'm not going to lie,

I didn't know who he was.

And then I looked at the locker plate

over his head and said,

Griffin, I went,

oh, now that kind of makes sense.

He is the number 43 ranked prospect in all of

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