Before making a push for the Pirates’ Opening Day roster, star prospect Konnor Griffin enjoyed his “first adventure” as a newlywed.
The 19-year-old shortstop, entering the 2026 season as the MLB’s top prospect, honeymooned in Mexico with his wife, Dendy, whom he married earlier this year.
“First adventure with my wife,” Griffin captioned a January Instagram carousel from the couple’s getaway, where they lounged by the pool and took in the scenic beach backdrop.
Griffin, the No. 9 overall selection by the Pirates in the 2024 MLB Draft, married Dendy, his high school sweetheart, in January.
The bride stunned in a strapless gown while Griffin, who popped the question last October, looked dapper in a black tux.
The couple tied the knot at the Castle Hill of Oxford in Mississippi.
Upon returning home from their honeymoon, Griffin and Dendy traveled to Florida for spring training, with all eyes fixated on when the towering 6-foot-4 prospect will make his debut in the majors.
“I fully trust what the front office and the coaches and everybody have done, how they’re going about it,” Griffin, the reigning Minor League Player of the Year, told ESPN in a recent profile.
“They’ve done a great job so far allowing me to be free in the minor leagues and be able to move and continue to face challenges. But this spring, I’m really trying not to think about it too much. There’s a lot of noise. I’m just trying to treat it just like I did last spring. I knew I had no chance of just making the big league team. And so every day I was just trying to be a sponge and soak up the advice of these great players who’ve been through it. And I’m trying to do the same thing this year. I know there could be a chance I make the big leagues at some point soon, and that’s great, but I just want to feel ready.”
Griffin smashed two homers against the Red Sox in an exhibition game earlier this week.
The Pirates know they have an “uncommon” talent in Griffin, but according to 2025 NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes, that descriptor doesn’t just apply to the teenage phenom’s athletic prowess.
“Goes to church every Sunday, doesn’t cuss, doesn’t do any of that stuff, married at 19,” the 23-year-old Pirates ace told ESPN. “It’s not common, but nothing about him is common. Everything screams uncommon. And if you want to be uncommon, you want to do uncommon things, it starts with thinking uncommon — and he does that.”
The Pirates finished last in the NL Central last season at 71-91.
They open the season on the road against the Mets on March 26.
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