{"id":71547,"date":"2024-04-26T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=71547"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:19:40","slug":"baltimore-orioles-optioned-jackson-holliday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/26\/baltimore-orioles-optioned-jackson-holliday\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles Option Struggling Rookie Back to Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Baltimore Orioles optioned the struggling young star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollija01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackson Holliday<\/a> back to Triple-A Norfolk on Friday. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orioles fans waited 633 days for the top prospect<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0to be called up and make his major league debut. A little more than two weeks after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/10\/orioles-call-up-jackson-holliday\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his April 10th call up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the young infielder is headed back to the minors for more seasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The start of Jackson Holliday\u2019s major league career has not gone as many expected. Holliday struggled in his first 10 games in the majors, recording only two hits in 34 at-bats with 18 strikeouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The son of former MLB All-Star <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollima01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Holliday<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the young infielder was drafted first overall by the Orioles two years ago. Holliday played with all four minor league affiliates for the Orioles last season and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">began his 2024 season with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/23\/orioles-holliday-minor-leagues\/\" target=\"_self\">Triple-A Norfolk<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He was batting .333\/.482\/.595 with two homers and nine RBI through 10 games at Triple-A before his promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following roster moves: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gatOuLknN9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gatOuLknN9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1783907941822730286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Top Prospect Jackson Holliday Optioned Back to Triple-A<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holliday came with high expectations as the consensus No. 1 prospect in baseball. When he was called up by the Orioles, the hope was that the 20-year-old would have an immediate impact. Holliday said earlier this week that he \u201cwasn\u2019t expecting\u201d his early struggles at the plate in the majors. Instead of giving up, Holliday continued to work hard and make adjustments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orioles manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/hydebr99.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Hyde<\/a> and the Baltimore staff were impressed with how Holliday handled himself despite his struggles. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about somebody who\u2019s never failed before. It\u2019s a tough place too. I don\u2019t think anybody, except for the people that are down here in uni, understand how hard this is,\u201d Hyde said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to go through struggles, and that\u2019s part of being a professional baseball player &#8212; how you deal with it, adversity, tough at-bats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holliday has played just 28 career games in Triple-A. He will have to stay in the minors for 10 days before being recalled again. While in Norfolk, Holliday will have an opportunity to make adjustments and rebuild his confidence before returning to Baltimore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles optioned the struggling young star Jackson Holliday back to Triple-A Norfolk on Friday. Orioles fans waited 633 days for the top prospect\u00a0to be called up and make his major league debut. A little more than two weeks after his April 10th call up, the young infielder is headed back to the minors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":71560,"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":[3,1071,35],"tags":[2527,5780,614],"class_list":["post-71547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","tag-brandon-hyde","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-matt-holliday"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547","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=71547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}