🚨Pirates Promoting Top Prospect Konnor Griffin! - Emergency Podcast (4/2 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Frank Stampfl and Chris Towers react to the news that the Pirates are promoting top prospect Konnor Griffin! What's the upside and downside for Griffin? Should you try and sell-high in redraft leagues?
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| 0:00.0 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:02.2 | Well, we didn't have to wait long. |
| 0:03.8 | The Pirates are promoting top prospect Connor Griffin. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome in to a bonus emergency edition of Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, April 3rd. |
| 0:13.5 | I am Frank Stamphill joined by Chris Towers. |
| 0:16.5 | And this is what I'm talking about. |
| 0:18.3 | The Pirates are calling up Connor Griffin to make his debut on Friday, the Pirates Home Opener. |
| 0:23.9 | And I know we've talked a lot about him all spring training. |
| 0:27.6 | Let me remind you of the numbers from last year. |
| 0:30.4 | As a 19-year-old, he hit 333 with 21 homers, 117 run scored, 94 RBI, 65 steals, and a 941 OPS across three different levels that included 21 games up at AA. |
| 0:46.3 | And Chris, apparently the Pirates, saw enough at just five games of AAA that they are calling him up. |
| 0:52.0 | So, some believe, I'm not going to say everybody, |
| 0:55.9 | but this could be the best prospect since Mike Trout. |
| 0:59.3 | There is a lot of hype around Connor Griffin and rightfully. |
| 1:02.8 | So very exciting times. |
| 1:04.3 | Chris, what are your expectations here for Connor Griffin? |
| 1:07.8 | Well, first I just want to say they grew up so fast. It feels like it was just a |
| 1:15.3 | week ago that he wasn't ready for the majors and now he's here. And I've always said that five |
| 1:23.0 | games at AAA was the perfect amount of seasoning. So now that we've got those dumb jokes out of the way, |
| 1:29.3 | I stole one of them from our boss, R.J. White. |
| 1:32.3 | Now that we've got those dumb jokes out of the way, |
| 1:35.3 | the likely, the median outcome here is Connor Griffin probably struggles to have for contact |
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