{"id":661053,"date":"2026-04-03T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:12:17","slug":"pirates-officially-promote-konnor-griffin-to-mlb-announce-corresponding-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661053\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Officially Promote Konnor Griffin To MLB, Announce Corresponding Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official.<\/p>\n

“ROSTER MOVE: The Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> today selected the contract of infielder Konnor Griffin from Triple-A Indianapolis,” the Pittsburgh Pirates’ official account posted on Bluesky. “Infielder Enmanuel Valdez was designated for assignment to make room for Griffin on the 40-man roster.”<\/p>\n

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ROSTER MOVE: The Pittsburgh Pirates today selected the contract of infielder Konnor Griffin from Triple-A Indianapolis. Infielder Enmanuel Valdez was designated for assignment to make room for Griffin on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@pirates.com<\/a>) April 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM<\/a><\/p>\n

One day after it was first reported that the Pittsburgh Pirates were promoting<\/a> top prospect Konnor Griffin for his big-league debut, the team made the announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n

The news comes hours ahead of the Pirates’ 2026 home-opener vs. the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Griffin was off to a huge start with Triple-A Indianapolis this spring before Friday’s promotion, going 7-for-16 with three doubles, four runs scored and three stolen bases across five games.<\/p>\n

First pitch between Baltimore and Pittsburgh is scheduled for 4:12 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

More MLB: How to Watch Pirates vs. Orioles Today: Channel, Live Stream & Start Time for 2026 Home Opener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s official. “ROSTER MOVE: The Pittsburgh Pirates today selected the contract of infielder Konnor Griffin from Triple-A Indianapolis,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-661053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341659631989411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661053","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=661053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}