He’s hotter than the pepper sprout! (Ask Johnny Cash, or Ben McDonald, who said it the other day from the MASN booth.) Before elaborating further, let’s just drop this here:
The swing, the bat speed, the power. Jackson Holliday is 9-for-24 with four home runs and 10 RBIs in his last eight games since getting called back up from Norfolk, good for a .375 average and 1.361 OPS.
That’s quite a turnaround from his first ten big-league games, when he went 2-for-34, a lowly .059 average, with no extra-base knocks.
Holliday was sent down after this frustrating stretch, worked through elbow pain, got called up for a second time at the end of July, and since, he’s flat-out dominated.