Austin Bechtel

They should have, but they didn't.

We didn't think they were going to be all that good, or at least be in the playoff race.

The expectation is for this team to be in the playoff race and make the playoffs for some people, myself included.

You picked them to make the playoffs this entire show.

pick them to make the playoffs.

So I wonder just what changed in that one week.

And Mackie alluded to just the mentality for Griffin needed to be different, and he was sitting 438 in the minors in his first week.

I also saw something that said with the PPI compensatory first-round pick that the extension would have to be signed after the deadline for it to kick in, which I thought was interesting.

So maybe what the Pirates are ultimately saying is,

Without saying it.

This extension is going to get done.

We wanted to build even more excitement possible for the home opener because you knew if Griffin was going to debut, just like Skeens, it was going to be at home.

They were going to make it an event like they did on a Saturday on Skeens Day.

The opener for Griffin.

Yeah, they could have made an opener.

No, they could have done it Saturday.

But I do think that there must be some that we don't know about yet.

Big advancements on this potential extension.

One other thing, Bob, people have been asking a lot on the text line and on Twitter, what number is Conor Griffin going to wear?

That's still yet to be determined.