{"id":663398,"date":"2026-04-04T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:56:28","slug":"the-future-is-now-for-pirates-konnor-griffin-in-fantasy-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663398\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is now for Pirates&#8217; Konnor Griffin in fantasy baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome aboard the Houck a Loogie for its maiden\u00a0voyage. It\u2019s all hands on deck as we embark on a fantasy treasure hunt, and the big red X on the map is leading us to \u2026 Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Arrr you ready, you fantasy scallywags?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Avast ye!<\/p>\n<p>Konnor Griffin, universally considered the best prospect in baseball, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/sports\/konnor-griffin-impresses-with-rbi-double-in-mlb-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made his big league debut for the Pirates\u2019 home opener Friday<\/a> against the Orioles. At 19, he is the first position player to debut as a teen since Juan Soto in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0(He quickly made an impact, going 1-for-3 with an RBI double and a walk while batting seventh. He also struck out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome aboard the Houck a Loogie for its maiden\u00a0voyage. It\u2019s all hands on deck as we embark on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,684,28,4,10,776,64,4297,12683,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-663398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-betting","10":"tag-fantasy-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","15":"tag-pittsburghpirates","16":"tag-roto-rage","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348438921365282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663398","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=663398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}