The Orioles are not wasting any more time having last year’s #1 overall pick Jackson Holliday facing hitters who are clearly not on his level. The team announced a promotion to the High-A Aberdeen IronBirds on Monday afternoon. Holliday is one step closer to his aggressive goal of reaching the big league level two years after being drafted.
I thought Holliday could have just started the season with Aberdeen. I don’t really know why he didn’t. Within the last few days, The Baltimore Banner’s Jon Meoli wrote about just how much Holliday wasn’t being challenged by his level of competition and how he had to work on his own to challenge himself.