{"id":73282,"date":"2024-05-15T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=73282"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:16:43","slug":"jackson-holliday-minor-league-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/15\/jackson-holliday-minor-league-update\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Orioles Former No.1 Pick is Fairing After Demotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On April 10, 2024 baseball fans around the world tuned in to watch 20-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollija01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackson Holliday<\/a>&#8216;s Major League debut. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/07\/orioles-holliday-spring-breakout\/\" target=\"_self\">Holliday<\/a> notched his first RBI as an Oriole and took his first step toward the Hall of Fame. Nine games and an astounding 18 strikeouts later Jackson, was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/26\/baltimore-orioles-optioned-jackson-holliday\/\" target=\"_self\">headed back to Triple-A Norfolk.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We decided to call him up and see how the translation to the major leagues would go on a short-term basis,&#8221; general manager Mike Elias said. &#8220;What we have seen here led me to the evaluation and opinion that he would benefit from going back and adjusting there rather than doing it here in real-time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;He got very intense, very specific feedback from major league pitching,&#8221; Elias said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a brilliant talent and a very sharp kid, and I expect he&#8217;s going to go implement those adjustments\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">really<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0quickly. But we felt that Triple-A and steady playing time in Triple-A was the place for that, for\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a number of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0different reasons.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The decision to move Holliday back to the minors has been debated and there are valid points.\u00a0 Will sending him back down hurt his confidence? Did Baltimore give Holliday enough time to adjust? Is Holliday overrated?\u00a0 The list goes on. Without a crystal ball, no one knows the answer.\u00a0 What we can do, though, is asses how he has readjusted to the minor league.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Major League RBI No. 1 for Jackson Holliday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Xj2so5dll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5Xj2so5dll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1778224075434828038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jackson Holliday Is Doing Jackson Holliday Things<\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When Holliday was called up he was slashing .333\/.482\/.595 with two home runs and five doubles through ten games.\u00a0 Holliday has played in 14 games since returning to Norfolk.\u00a0 During those fourteen games, his slash has dipped to .295\/.456\/.484.\u00a0 The good news is Holliday has hit a home run since his return.\u00a0 The top prospect has also hit safely in seven out of the last eight games.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The differences are subtle, but Jackson Holliday has adopted a lower stance in Triple-A to make it easier to adjust mid-pitch and catch up to higher velocity even if his timing is a bit off.<\/p>\n<p>On the tweaks he\u2019s made since being sent back to the minors: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2e5iw4kDDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/2e5iw4kDDR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lf6rhLPOd8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lf6rhLPOd8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Weyrich (@ByMattWeyrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByMattWeyrich\/status\/1790714240489128017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now that Baltimore fans have had a taste of what Holliday brings to the table they shouldn&#8217;t be as restless as they were during spring training.\u00a0 That will take the pressure off of Oriole&#8217;s management.\u00a0 Besides a dip in average, his slash line is closer to his minor league average at this point in the season.\u00a0 Holliday also has more walks so far this season in Triple-A than he does strikeouts.\u00a0 This should be the stat that stands out for Holliday fans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Where to Now<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At this point in the season, barring injuries, Jackson should stay put where he is.\u00a0 There is no reason to rush him back to the big leagues just to have him fail again.\u00a0 Holliday has been given feedback and instructions.\u00a0 It is time to lean on his dad and coaches and go to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;He needs repetitions &#8230; We felt Triple-A and steady playing time in Triple-A was the place for that,&#8221; said Elias.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now Jackson Holliday can go back to doing what he has been doing his entire life; playing exceptional baseball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Reggie Hildred-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 10, 2024 baseball fans around the world tuned in to watch 20-year-old Jackson Holliday&#8216;s Major League debut. Holliday notched his first RBI as an Oriole and took his first step toward the Hall of Fame. Nine games and an astounding 18 strikeouts later Jackson, was headed back to Triple-A Norfolk. &#8220;We decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5131,"featured_media":73379,"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":[3,926,1071],"tags":[5780],"class_list":["post-73282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-milb","category-mlb","tag-jackson-holliday"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282","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\/5131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}