{"id":70296,"date":"2024-04-10T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=70296"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:35:00","slug":"orioles-call-up-jackson-holliday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/10\/orioles-call-up-jackson-holliday\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles Call Up Baseball\u2019s Top Prospect: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball\u2019s top prospect, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=hollid000jac&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackson Holliday<\/a>, is headed to the big leagues after being called up by the Baltimore Orioles. Holliday was the first overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft and is the top-ranked prospect in all of baseball. The son of seven-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollima01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Holliday<\/a>, worked his way up the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/15\/al-east-top-prospect-by-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Orioles minor league system<\/a> last season finishing the year with Triple-A Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old middle infielder seemed poised to make the Orioles Opening Day roster after his stellar performance in spring training. So, the decision for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/23\/orioles-holliday-minor-leagues\/\" target=\"_self\">Holliday to start the season in Triple-A<\/a> and not with the Orioles came as a surprise. General manager Mike Elias cited Holliday\u2019s limited experience at second base and against upper-level left-handed pitching as the primary reasons for the decision. \u201cHe\u2019s very, very close,\u201d Elias said.<\/p>\n<p>Holliday responded to the decision perfectly by taking Rays prospect left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=montgo000mas,montgo001mas&amp;search=Mason+Montgomery&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Montgomery<\/a> deep in the Tides\u2019 home opener. In 10 games with the Tides, Holliday slashed .333\/.482\/.595 with four doubles, two home runs, and nine RBI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following roster moves: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z886kWQZBx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Z886kWQZBx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1778061718226088256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Promote Jackson Holliday<\/h2>\n<p>He&#8217;s a natural shortstop but spent most of spring camp at the keystone. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hendegu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gunnar Henderson<\/a> as Baltimore\u2019s primary shortstop, Holliday is expected to serve as his double-play partner at second base. Baltimore\u2019s infield has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mountry01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Mountcastle<\/a> at first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Westburg<\/a> at second, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/uriasra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas<\/a> at third, and Henderson at shortstop. Ur\u00edas has struggled at the plate batting just .091\/.130\/.091 in 22 at-bats to start the season. Holliday\u2019s role with Baltimore has yet to be established, but the early consensus is that Westburg would move to third and Holliday would play second.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, 6-4, is currently in the middle of a three-game road series at Boston. Holliday is expected to join the Orioles in Boston before returning to Camden Yards for his home debut this weekend. He will wear the number seven, the same number worn by his father, Matt Holliday, for most of his career. Holliday will not only share the number with his father but also with Orioles Hall of Fame manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ripkeca99.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Ripken Sr.<\/a> Orioles legend (and now part-owner), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ripkeca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Ripken Jr.<\/a> shared that he and his family were \u201cthrilled\u201d that Holliday had chosen to wear his dad\u2019s number.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our family is thrilled that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Holliday7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@J_Holliday7<\/a> will be wearing dad&#8217;s #7 &#8230; Excited to watch him play!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cal Ripken, Jr. (@CalRipkenJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalRipkenJr\/status\/1778068897582690413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holliday&#8217;s joining an Orioles team coming off a historic 101-win season and an American League East title in 2023. The Orioles have their sights set on advancing in the postseason and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/11\/baltimore-orioles-world-series\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bringing a World Series trophy back to Baltimore<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Whatever his role may be, Jackson Holliday has the talent to aid in Baltimore\u2019s pursuit of a World Series championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: \u00a9 Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball\u2019s top prospect, Jackson Holliday, is headed to the big leagues after being called up by the Baltimore Orioles. Holliday was the first overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft and is the top-ranked prospect in all of baseball. The son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, worked his way up the Orioles minor league system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":70302,"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":[3,1071],"tags":[240,9663,176,2688,3716,614,5835,3336],"class_list":["post-70296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cal-ripken","tag-cal-ripken-jr","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-matt-holliday","tag-ramon-urias","tag-ryan-mountcastle"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70296","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=70296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}