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Baseball's Top Overall Prospect Launches First Triple-A Home Run

Jackson Holliday, recently promoted to Triple-A Norfolk for the Baltimore Orioles, has hit his first Triple-A home run at the age of 19.
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Baseball's Top Overall Prospect Launches First Triple-A Home Run
Baseball's Top Overall Prospect Launches First Triple-A Home Run

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Baseball's No. 1 overall prospect, 19-year-old Jackson Holliday, hit his first Triple-A home run on Thursday.

Playing for the Norfolk Tides, the affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, Holliday connected on a shot to deep right field.

Holliday, who was the No. 1 pick in the draft in 2022, is hitting .320 across four minor league levels this season. Since getting to Triple-A, he's played eight games and was hitting just .152 coming into the day. He's got 10 total home runs this season.

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 and lead the AL East by 2.0 games over the Tampa Bay Rays.

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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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