{"id":647818,"date":"2026-03-11T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/647818\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:58:14","slug":"vote-who-will-be-pirates-best-hitter-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/647818\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Who will be Pirates best hitter this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Pirates fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sign up here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Pittsburgh Pirates made some moves this offseason to address their offense. And at least so far this Spring, things are looking up in the hitting department. The Bucs sit at 12-5 in Spring Training play, and their 98 runs scored lead the Grapefruit League. What we want to know, is who do you think will the Pirates best hitter this season? Will it be one of their newcomers? Or will it be a veteran?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We thought about adding Konnor Griffin, but <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ben-cherington-said-konnor-griffin-204815505.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Ben Cherington;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;according to Ben Cherington&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Ben Cherington<\/a>, it doesn\u2019t sound like they\u2019re going to run him out there to start the season. So without a clear timeline on when to expect him, we left him off the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cast your vote, tell us in the comments, and we\u2019ll be back soon with the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":647819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[93797,79007,5048,1266,3375,2830,12099,1886,62,170848,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-647818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ben-cherington","9":"tag-bryan-reynolds","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-oneil-cruz","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116210192031432879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}