The Pittsburgh Pirates made some big additions to their Spring Training team, including some of the franchise’s best prospects.
The Pirates announced seven more non-roster invitees to their Major League camp down in Bradenton, Fla. They will train with the best players and look to boost their stock ahead of the 2026 season.
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Top prospect Konnor Griffin is the big name to be announced for the Spring Training team. He was selected ninth overall in the 2024 draft out of Jackson preparatory school in Mississippi. He was the first high school player selected in that draft and the Bucs believe he could be a future star just for the team but in the league.
He had a strong Spring Training, starting with Single-A Bradenton, he then moved to High-A Greensboro on June 10 and then to Double-A with Altoona on July 18. Griffin slashed .333/.415/.527 for an OPS of .942 in 122 games, 161 hits, 23 doubles, four triples, 21 home runs, 94 RBIs, 50 walks to 122 strikeouts and 65 stolen bases on 13 attempts.
He became the unanimous top prospect in baseball, he played in the Futures Game during All-Star week and earned numerous accolades for his play, including Baseball America naming him their Minor League Player of the Year Award and MLB Pipeline naming him their Hitting Prospect of the Year and Debut of the Year.
Griffin is also heavily rumored to be the potential Opening Day shortstop for the Pirates. He won an MiLB Gold Glove Award at the position in 2025. Since moving Oneil Cruz to the outfield the Pirates have not been set at the short stop position.
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The other players are infielders Termarr Johnson and Duce Gorson, catchers in Omar Alfonzo and Shawn Ross, as well as right-handed pitchers in Noah Davis and Chris Devenski are the seven additions.
Johnson is another young player that really excited the organization. He was the fourth overall pick in the 2022 MLB draft out of Benjamin E. Mays high school in Atlanta, Georgia.
The young prospect spent all of his 2025 season in Altoona, where he dominated .272/.363/.382 for an OPS of .745 in 119 games, with 118 hits, 67 runs, 15 doubles, three triples, nine home runs, 35 RBI and 20 stolen bases.
Both MLB Pipeline and Baseball America rank Johnson as the seventh best Pirates prospect coming into the new season.
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Former UCLA player Duce Gorson started out with Greensboro before making it to Altoona on June 24, where he spent the rest of the season there. The infielder had a strong season from the plate, slashing .275/.370/.439 for an OPS of .809 in 95 games, with 92 hits, 21 doubles, 10 home runs, 38 RBI and 31 stolen bases. Some websites have Gorson has the 21st top prospect while others don’t even have him in the top 30.
Catching prospect Omar Alfonzo is expected to be a future star behind the plate, he ranks 13th in baseball America top 30 Pirate prospects.
While Ross played with both Altoona and Triple-A Indianapolis, hitting .174/.285/.295 for an OPS of .580 in 68 games played last season.
Davis has MLB experience, spending time with the Colorado Rockies from 2022-24. He also pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins last season. He has an 0-6 record over 27 appearances and six starts, a 9.53 ERA over 62.1 innings pitched, 58 strikeouts to 29 walks, a .364 batting average allowed and a 2.05 WHIP.
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Devenski played some time with the New York Mets in 2025 and showed some true potential out of the bullpen. He finished with a 2.16 ERA in 13 games, one start and 16.2 innings pitched, plus 14 strikeouts to five walks, a .179 batting average allowed and a 0.90 WHIP.
Devenski is more of a veteran as he spent some time with the Houston Astros for five seasons in 2016-20, winning the 2017 World Series with them and earning an All-Star nod as a rookie in 2016.
These seven players will join the first seven non-roster invitees to Major League camp in outfielders, Ronny Simon and Dominic Fletcher, infielder Davis Wendzel, right-hander pitchers in Beau Burrows and Noah Murdock, and left-handed pitchers in Joe La Sorsa and Oddanier Mosqueda.
A lot of these prospects have a lot of potential and it will be very fun to see how they will play in Spring Training, especially top prospect Konnor Griffin who is expected to play a big role for the team this season.
