{"id":637017,"date":"2026-03-22T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:26:30","slug":"pirates-reassign-heralded-prospect-konnor-griffin-to-minor-league-camp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637017\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates reassign heralded prospect Konnor Griffin to minor league camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates debut for highly touted 19-year-old prospect Konnor Griffin will have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin was reassigned to minor league camp on Saturday after the shortstop spent the last few weeks showcasing the skills that have made him baseball&#8217;s No. 1 overall prospect, according to MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Don Kelly called the decision to leave Griffin off the season-opening roster &#8220;extremely difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The talent that you see, I think he handled himself really well professionally,&#8221; Kelly told reporters. &#8220;We talk about the maturity level as a 19-year-old in big league camp. Really excited about him being a Pirate and what that means for the future of Konnor Griffin and the Pirates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Griffin homered four times and had nine RBIs in 16 Grapefruit League games, but he batted just .171 and struck out 13 times in 41 at-bats. After Griffin garnered so much attention this spring because of his status as one of the game&#8217;s top prospects, Kelly believed a return to the minors could allow the infielder to reassert himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you see a young kid that was maybe pressing just a little bit and trying really hard,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;Konnor Griffin the person is elite. Allowing him to go and get back to basics and being Konnor Griffin out there (could help). We know there&#8217;s an elite talent level that comes with him. Just looking forward to him being in Pittsburgh whenever that time comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates debut for highly touted 19-year-old prospect Konnor Griffin will have to wait. Griffin was reassigned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,19,2125,4,64,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-637017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-minor-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116272355629608031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}