Konnor Griffin is 19 years old.
He hit an RBI double on the 5th pitch of his MLB career.
The last teenager to debut as a position player for the Pirates was Aramis Ramirez in 1998.
🧵 Let's talk about why Griffin might be the most important prospect in baseball right now:
@JMackey_PGH@AlexJStumpf@_NoahHiles
Konnor Griffin is 19 years old.
He hit an RBI double on the 5th pitch of his MLB career.
The last teenager to debut as a position player for the Pirates was Aramis Ramirez in 1998.
🧵 Let's talk about why Griffin might be the most important prospect in baseball right now:
@JMackey_PGH@AlexJStumpf@_NoahHiles
[4/5] At 19 years and 344 days, he's the youngest position player to debut with a walk AND an RBI since 1958.
This stat is not from a random era. It's rare in any era.
BREAKING: Sources say that UNC intends to hire 85-year-old Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre to lead their baseball program
Torre won 4 World Series as the manager of the Yankees from 1996-2007. He joins Bill Belichick and Mike Malone in Chapel Hill
Hot take: Bring in the robot umps full time.
Not because umps are always wrong.
Because the second they CAN be challenged, every missed call becomes a moment.
Baseball just added a new kind of drama and people are mad about it. Wild.