Baltimore Orioles Promote Jackson Holliday, No. 10 Prospect in Baseball, to High-A

Jackson Holliday, the No. 10 overall prospect in baseball and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft has been promoted to High-A by the Baltimore Orioles. He will join the Aberdeen Ironbirds after hitting .392 at Low-A Delmarva.

The Baltimore Orioles are out to a resounding 14-7 start at the major league level but the excitement extends organization-wide.

On Monday morning, the Orioles promoted Jackson Holliday to High-A Aberdeen from Low-A Delmarva.

Holliday, the son of former major league all-star Matt Holliday, was the No. 1 pick in the 2022 MLB Draft and dominated at Delmarva in the early going.

Kyle Glaser of Baseball America has additional information in a tweet today:

"Jackson Holliday, the No. 1 overall pick in last year's draft, has been promoted to High-A Aberdeen. The Orioles shortstop prospect hit .392/.523/667 with nine extra-base hits, 15 RBIs and more walks (14) than strikeouts (12) in 13 games at Low-A Delmarva to start the season."

Jackson Holliday, the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft, has been promoted to High-A Aberdeen.

The Orioles shortstop prospect hit .392/.523/.667 with nine extra-base hits, 15 RBIs and more walks (14) than strikeouts (12) in 13 games at Low-A Delmarva to start the season. https://t.co/0fDdjVZoa4

— Kyle Glaser (@KyleAGlaser) April 24, 2023

Holliday is the No. 10 prospect in all of Major League Baseball, per the MLB.com rankings. He is the Orioles No. 2 prospect, behind only Grayson Rodriguez, who has already made his debut and will lose prospect eligibility this season.

Here's a full look at Holliday from the MLB.com rankings. His MLB ETA is projected to be 2025, per those rankings.

"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.

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