Konnor Griffin, SS, Pirates: Griffin homered again on Sunday, giving him three home runs in just six spring games. Griffin's 107.8 mph homer traveled an estimated 408 feet.

No other Pirate has homered more than once this spring. Griffin has four of the Pirates top 12 hardest-hit balls this spring.

While Griffin has homered three times, those are his only hits so far. He is hitting only .214/.267/.857. But that is a very surface-level way of looking at how he's performed.

Griffin struck out twice in his spring training debut on Feb. 21. But since then, he's gone 16 plate appearances without a strikeout, and he has only swung and missed five times over those 16 PAs. Over that same time, he's put the ball in play 12 times. While he has only three hits, he has also lined out sharply (105+ mph exit velocities) twice and has a 395-foot flyball that was caught by Johan Rojas.

Defensively, Griffin did have a throwing error on a Ceddanne Rafaela groundball on Feb. 24, but he's handled his other 14 chances cleanly.

In other words, he may be hitting .214, but Griffin has looked anything but overmatched early in spring training.

Ryan Sloan, RHP, Mariners: Sunday was Sloan's first ever spring training game with the big league club, and the No. 60 prospect in the game made it a memorable one. Sloan sat at 98 mph with his fastball, mixing in a mid-80s slider and a hard low-90s cutter. He got four swings and misses in 12 pitches. Coming in to relieve starter Logan Gilbert, Sloan got Kyle Higashioka to fly out, then got Josh Smith to look at a 99 mph fastball for strike three. Ezequiel Duran grounded out to end Sloan's effective inning of work.

Thomas White, LHP, Marlins: White has a grade 1 oblique strain that is expected to sideline him for three to four weeks. When considering that there are roughly three and a half weeks left in spring training, this could delay him breaking camp with a team as he gets stretched back out. White, who ranks 13th on the Baseball America Top 100, allowed two hits, a walk and two runs in one inning in his only appearance of spring training.

Andrew Painter, RHP, Phillies: Painter threw two scoreless, hitless innings in his spring training debut Sunday against the Yankees. Painter sat at 95-96 mph with his fastball, touching nearly 98, but he didn't generate many swings and misses. He got one whiff on his fastball, one on his slider and one on his sweeper out of 20 pitches. But Painter was efficient. He threw strikes on 70% of his pitches and allowed only two balls out of the infield in two quick innings of work. His one strikeout came against Jasson Dominguez.

Chase DeLauter, OF, Guardians: DeLauter doubled off a Chase Dollander curveball in the first inning, driving the ball to the left field wall although outfielder Troy Johnston did get a glove on the ball as he crashed into the fence. There was no such drama on his third inning-home run, he went down to lift a 98 mph Jaden Hill fastball over the right field fence. DeLauter is now hitting .625/.625/1.250 with zero strikeouts in eight plate appearances. He was held out of action for several days with lower body soreness and was limited to DH duties on Sunday.

Braden Montgomery, OF, White Sox: Braden Montgomery was extremely impressive on Sunday. He homered off Cubs starter Shota Imanaga and then tripled off Cubs reliever Luke Little. Montgomery's homer was a drive to left field, while his triple was just over the reach of outfielder Michael Conforto. Montgomery now leads all hitters in spring training with two triples. He's hitting .357/.357/.857 in 15 plate appearances with only three strikeouts.

Walker Jenkins, OF Twins: Jenkins, the No. 5 prospect in the game, was diagnosed with a Grade 1 hamstring strain after reporting on Sunday that he was sore after running on a double play on Saturday, Dan Hayes and others reported.

A Grade 1 strain is the least severe level of a strain, but it does sideline Jenkins in the short term at least. The biggest problem for Jenkins' development so far has been getting through spring training and the early part of the regular season healthy.

So far, Jenkins has only played three official games over his first two Aprils as a pro, and he has yet to play a full-season game in either May because of injuries.

Jenkins had a quad injury during spring training in 2024, and then went on the IL on April 8, 2024 because of a hamstring strain. He had played one game for Low-A Fort Meyers before going on the IL. He did not return fully to Fort Myers until June 4. In 2025, Jenkins went on the IL on April 9 with the recurrence of an ankle injury that had bothered him during spring training. He returned to Double-A Wichita on June 18.

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