Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday is the New No. 1 Prospect in All of Baseball

Per MLB.com, Baltimore Orioles prospect Jackson Holliday is the new No. 1 prospect in all of baseball.

MLB.com just put out its newest prospect rankings and with some players graduating off the list, there's a new No. 1 prospect in the sport: Jackson Holliday of the Baltimore Orioles.

The 19-year-old was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 draft out of the high school ranks.

Minor league broadcaster Tim Nolan put the following out on Twitter:

Elly De La Cruz just hit for the cycle two weeks into the bigs yet former @shorebirds SS Jackson Holliday is your NEW No. 1 prospect in baseball. The 19 year old remains one of the best hitters in the minors between Delmarva/Aberdeen (High-A).

Elly De La Cruz just hit for the cycle two weeks into the bigs yet former @shorebirds SS Jackson Holliday is your NEW No. 1 prospect in baseball.

The 19 year old remains one of the best hitters in the minors between Delmarva/Aberdeen (High-A). https://t.co/tOOOJ0ppIU

— Tim Nolan (@TimNolanTV) June 26, 2023

That certainly is pretty amazing as De La Cruz is the talk of baseball right now. He will graduate off the list soon as well but he hasn't played enough major league games to do so just yet.

Holliday is hitting .325 this season across two different levels. He's got seven homers and 27 RBI. He also has 20 stolen bases.

The following on Holliday comes from a portion his MLB.com prospect profile:

The combination of nature and nurture certainly come into play, with growing up around the game clearly helping Holliday’s overall skillset. He has an extremely advanced approach at the plate, and he showed it off by walking more than twice as much as he struck out during his debut last summer. He has a simple left-handed stroke he got back to after his swing got a little long last summer, allowing him make more hard contact than ever, with plenty of power coming organically from his swing.

With strength he added before his senior year, and with more to come, Holliday has also gotten faster and is a consistently plus runner. There’s an up arrow next to his arm strength as well and that, along with his improved quickness, means he should be able to play shortstop for a long time. His combination of pure tools and high baseball IQ could mean he moves through the system quicker than a typical prep player. 

His father, Matt, played 15 years in the big leagues with the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and New York Yankees. He spent part of eight years in St. Louis, six with Colorado, one with New York and part of one with Oakland. He was a seven-time All-Star selection, received MVP votes in eight different seasons and finished fifth in the 2004 National League Rookie of the Year voting.

He hit 316 career home runs and also brought in 1220 runs. He led the National League hits (216) in 2007. He also had a league-leading 137 RBI that year. He was a lifetime .299 hitter.

Holliday made the playoffs in nine years including 2007 with Colorado, 2009, 2011-15 with the Cardinals, 2017 with New York and 2018 with Colorado, who he joined for a second stint.

At the major league level, the Orioles just took two of three from the Seattle Mariners. They are now 47-29 and in second place in the American League East, 4.5 back of the Rays.

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