Austin Bechtel

Right.

Now this gives them that potential to, you could still sign Griffin.

but you get the first-round pick, which is just an added incentive.

For the Pirates small market team, they need those picks.

And they missed out on it with Jared Jones, who they probably thought was going to be in the race for it.

I think Chandler could be that guy too.

Well, I have a lot of tweet notifications on for Pirates, Penguins, Steelers, Big Insiders, and stuff like that.

And as soon as I saw the headline for the tweet that the Pirates put out there, which was like opening series, I was like, hold on a minute.

There's got to be something going on with this.

So, obviously, we don't know anything about a contract extension at the moment, but the news is Jason Mackey confirming it, Pirates putting it out there, which is all you need to know.

Opening debut of the period, and it's Connor Griffin in a Pirates jersey with his head tilting up towards the camera, being promoted for opening day tomorrow at PNC Park.

Man, will he get a great pop at the ballpark.

Bob, I'm so excited that Connor Griffin is being called up.

He should have been here since day one.

I think eventually he did say it's okay that he started in AAA, but he was a huge advocate for Griffin starting.

All right, bottom half of the fourth for the Buccos.

No runs have come across the ledger for Paul Skeens today.

Much better than the first outing that he had in New York.

Austin Bechtel with you.

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