Pirates' Konnor Griffin making history by debuting in MLB at 19 years old
It's rare for it to happen at this age.
Pirates' Konnor Griffin making history by debuting in MLB at 19 years old originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Konnor Griffin has reached MLB faster than almost anyone expected.
In the process, the Pittsburgh Pirates ' shortstop phenom and top prospect in the sport will make quite a bit of baseball history when he debuts on Friday at just 19 years old. He's the first teenage position player to appear in an MLB game since Juan Soto did it with the Washington Nationals in 2018, according to MLB's Sarah Lang . The last time a teenager appeared this early in a season as a position player?
That was Adrian Beltre in 1999, per Langs. Griffin is slightly younger than Beltre was then, the youngest (19 years, 344 days) to play this early in the season since Andruw Jones in 1997, again according to Langs. MORE: Braves make baseball history so rare it dates back to the Montreal Expos How about for the Pirates?
MLB. com's Thomas Harrigan has a few more Griffin stats. The last teenager to play for the Pirates was back in 1998, when Aramis Ramirez played in 25 games while he was still 19 years old.