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Live Shot of Pirates: Konnor Griffin's debut!

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DK Pittsburgh Sports

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Konnor Griffin is headed to the major leagues ahead of the Pirates' home opener against the Orioles. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Jose Negron at DK. Pittsburgh Sports here.

0:09.4

Welcome to live shot of Pirates on DK. Pittsburgh Sports.

0:13.7

And some big, pretty big news.

0:15.5

Connor Griffin, the number one overall prospect in all of baseball.

0:18.1

The number one prospect, of course, in the Pirates organization,

0:22.2

is heading to the big league.

0:27.4

So make his major league debut ahead of, on opening day tomorrow against the Orioles at PNC Park, the home opener at PNC Park.

0:29.9

So you knew it was coming eventually.

0:33.5

He knew it was sooner rather than later, but Connor Griffin will be in a Pirates uniform.

0:38.4

He will be at PNC Park this weekend.

0:42.0

After a solid spring, you know, he showed what he has with the power.

0:47.0

He showed we could do defensively, obviously.

0:48.9

There's going to be some growing pains, a 19-year-old who just has it all.

0:53.1

He's a five-told guy, you know, can bring it with the contact, power, speed, the glove, the arm.

1:01.2

He has it all.

1:02.2

He's in a slot right into that lineup.

1:03.7

And he's in a bolster a lineup that was good and bad over these first six games of the regular season,

1:10.6

starting out three and three

1:11.6

in New York in Cincinnati, obviously coming off two big games where they were able to get

1:16.0

the offense going with 16 runs scored after getting shut out there in the first game of that

1:21.6

Cincinnati series against the Reds. But Griffin slots into this lineup. He makes the lineup better

1:27.1

and you just knew after five games in Indianapolis, you know, he was hitting over. But Griffin slots into this lineup. He makes the lineup better.

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