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The Top Overall Prospect in Baseball is Already Rolling at Triple-A

After just recently being promoted to Triple-A, baseball's top overall prospect, Jackson Holliday, is already rolling.
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The Top Overall Prospect in Baseball is Already Rolling at Triple-A
The Top Overall Prospect in Baseball is Already Rolling at Triple-A

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That didn't take long, did it? After recently being promoted to Triple-A, baseball's top overall prospect is already rolling.

Orioles' farmhand Jackson Holliday recorded a three-hit night for Triple-A Norfolk on Tuesday night at just the age of 19.

Per the Norfolk Tides on social media:

.@J_Holliday7 led the Tides in hits tonight with his first Triple-A three-hit game! 

He's on a five-game hitting streak, slashing .450/.542/.650/1.192 in that span. #RisingTide

Holliday is hitting .325 across four levels this season. In 13 games at Triple-A, he's now hitting .264. He has 11 home runs for the entirety of the minor league season.

He was the No. 1 overall pick in the draft in 2022.

Per 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 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.

At the major league level, the Orioles have the best record in the American League. They lead the American League East by 2.5 games.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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