{"id":67564,"date":"2024-03-04T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=67564"},"modified":"2024-03-03T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:18:16","slug":"jackson-holliday-reunites-father-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/04\/jackson-holliday-reunites-father-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Holliday Reunites With Dad’s Former Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the Baltimore Orioles announced they signed veteran second baseman Kolten Wong<\/a> to a minor league deal. Besides competing for a spot on the Orioles roster, the 33-year-old shares a special connection with top prospect Jackson Holliday. He played with his dad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson Holliday Reunites With Dad’s Former Teammate<\/h2>\n

Kolten Wong<\/span><\/a> made his big league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2013 and played alongside <\/span>Matt Holliday<\/span><\/a> from 2013-2016. Now, he is sharing a clubhouse (albeit in Spring Training) and is competing for a roster spot with <\/span>Jackson Holliday<\/span><\/a>. Jackson first met Wong when he was about ten years old, and he tagged along with his dad to the ballpark. The younger Holliday made quite the impression on Wong, who told reporters he knew Jackson would be a \u201cbeast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wong is an 11-year veteran and a two-time Gold Glove winner with a .256 career batting average. He split the 2023 season between the Mariners and the Dodgers in a very uneven showing before entering free agency. Despite last year\u2019s struggles, Wong has been relatively consistent at the plate and the keystone in his career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The second baseman signed a minor league deal with the Orioles with an invitation to big league camp on Wednesday. It’s a move that adds more veteran depth and another lefty bat to the Baltimore bench. Wong is competing with the younger Holliday for a 26-man Opening Day roster spot. Holliday<\/a> is spending his Spring Training learning to play second base and is \u201cexcited\u201d to learn from Wong.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Wong\u2019s priority is to make the Orioles roster, he\u2019s also looking forward to sharing knowledge with the clubhouse. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of what I\u2019m here for,\u201d <\/span>Wong told MLB.com. <\/span><\/a>\u201cI want to play and whatnot, but also realizing that when you get older, it\u2019s about passing on the knowledge you learned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credits: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, the Baltimore Orioles announced they signed veteran second baseman Kolten Wong to a minor league deal. Besides competing for a spot on the Orioles roster, the 33-year-old shares a special connection with top prospect Jackson Holliday. He played with his dad. Jackson Holliday Reunites With Dad’s Former Teammate Kolten Wong made his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":67570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1071],"tags":[5780,736,92,614,158,168],"class_list":["post-67564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-kolten-wong","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-matt-holliday","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}