{"id":661998,"date":"2026-04-04T02:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661998\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:32:31","slug":"really-exciting-pittsburgh-pirates-chairman-bob-nutting-optimistic-about-this-years-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661998\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Really exciting\u2019: Pittsburgh Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting optimistic about this year\u2019s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting spoke with Channel 11 ahead of the home opener game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Nutting said the organization and players in the clubhouse feel that this season can be different, and they hope the city does too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI think you see that, with the players, you see it with the general feeling in the ballpark,\u201d Nutting said. \u201cWe spent a lot of time, not only over the past off-season, but over the past several years, to build the foundation that we have. You see that with the starting rotation and then this year we were able to supplement and add, and I believe the combination of that solid foundation and the offensive additions that we put in, we\u2019re going to have a really exciting team.\u201d Nutting said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pirates beat the Orioles 5-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 also spoke with prospect Konnor Griffin ahead of the home opener. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/sports\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\/an-amazing-journey-konnor-griffin-says-hes-ready-mlb-debut-pirates-home-opener\/SVBFEU7BMBB7RABTPGDLE3PTWI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/sports\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\/an-amazing-journey-konnor-griffin-says-hes-ready-mlb-debut-pirates-home-opener\/SVBFEU7BMBB7RABTPGDLE3PTWI\/\">Here\u2019s what he had to say about his first steps in Pittsburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting spoke with Channel 11 ahead of the home opener game on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[26409,5,84409,11802,84407,1339,72648,84408,60143,4,83770,125,72646,10,776,11799,64,72645,4297,11801,76108,10718,185,3383,2183,72647],"class_list":{"0":"post-661998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-aa","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bob_nunning","11":"tag-channel_11","12":"tag-connor_griffin","13":"tag-griffin","14":"tag-jenna_harner","15":"tag-jenna_harter","16":"tag-major_league","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-north_shore","19":"tag-orioles","20":"tag-ott_sports","21":"tag-pirates","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-pittsburgh-news","24":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","25":"tag-pittsburgh-sports","26":"tag-pittsburghpirates","27":"tag-pnc_park","28":"tag-shelby_cassese","29":"tag-single","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-triple-a","32":"tag-video","33":"tag-wpxi-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344097538862642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661998","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=661998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}