{"id":670640,"date":"2026-04-08T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:32:26","slug":"pirates-secure-top-prospect-griffin-on-historic-140m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670640\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Secure Top Prospect Griffin on Historic $140M Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without even playing a full week in the big leagues, Konnor Griffin has made <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>\u2019 history. The Pirates locked up their teenage shortstop on a nine-year, $140 million deal, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48428020\/sources-konnor-griffin-agrees-9-year-140m-deal-piratessources-konnor-griffin-agrees-9-year-140m-deal-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan and Buster Olney<\/a>, which is the largest guarantee in franchise history. Not just that, but the deal is also the largest ever handed to a player in his rookie season. It surpasses the record for a player so early in his career set by Roman Anthony with the <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>, who inked an eight-year, $130 million deal two months after his major debut. Pittsburgh is investing a lot in Griffin, as they bought out three potential years of free agency to keep him from the open market. But they\u2019ll keep the rights to move him, as the deal doesn\u2019t have a full no-trade clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Without even playing a full week in the big leagues, Konnor Griffin has made Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 history. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-670640","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\/116370285831423644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670640","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=670640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}