Jackson Holliday

Jackson Holliday

21-Year-Old Second Baseman2B
Baltimore Orioles
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Holliday was not included on the Orioles' Opening Day roster even after a big spring, but he didn't have to wait long for a promotion, getting the call on April 10. He was back in the minors before the end of April after going 2-for-34 with 18 strikeouts in 10 games and stayed there for the next three months. Holliday experienced some initial success upon his return to the O's, but he was dreadful for the final six weeks and by the end of the regular season was no longer a regular. The skills which made Holliday arguably the top prospect in baseball were still on display at Triple-A Norfolk, but he simply looked overmatched in his first taste of the majors, with a 33.2 percent strikeout rate particularly worrisome. Holliday isn't the first top prospect to struggle in his first exposure to big-league pitching, and odds are things will click for him sooner or later. Less certain is whether he'll be handed a job out of spring training next year. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season From Preseason
#203
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Orioles in March of 2025.
Moving up to two hole Thursday
2BBaltimore Orioles
May 8, 2025
Holliday will start at second base and bat second in Thursday's game versus the Twins.
ANALYSIS
The hot-hitting Holliday had been elevated to the No. 6 spot in the lineup for each of his last five starts, and now he'll now bat second - which is the highest he's batted this season - for the series finale against the Twins. Holliday is slashing .313/.421/.500 with three home runs and one stolen base across his last 17 contests.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
5
3
8
8
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
3
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+48%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+49%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+45%
OPS vs RHP
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .453 68 6 1 6 1 .136 .250 .203
Since 2023vs Right .669 250 34 8 28 5 .234 .288 .381
2025vs Left .529 22 1 0 3 0 .211 .318 .211
2025vs Right .786 88 11 4 8 2 .272 .330 .457
2024vs Left .417 46 5 1 3 1 .100 .217 .200
2024vs Right .605 162 23 4 20 3 .213 .265 .340
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+7%
OPS on Road
2025
 
 
+46%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+44%
OPS on Road
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .601 140 14 4 20 0 .214 .257 .344
Since 2023Away .644 178 26 5 14 6 .214 .298 .346
2025Home .903 45 6 3 8 0 .310 .356 .548
2025Away .618 65 6 1 3 2 .224 .308 .310
2024Home .458 95 8 1 12 0 .169 .211 .247
2024Away .658 113 20 4 11 4 .208 .292 .366
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Jackson Holliday compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.32
 
BB Rate
7.6%
 
K Rate
23.8%
 
BABIP
.318
 
ISO
.158
 
AVG
.263
 
OBP
.333
 
SLG
.421
 
OPS
.754
 
wOBA
.335
 
Exit Velocity
90.3 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
28.6%
 
Barrels/PA
4.8%
 
Expected BA
.267
 
Expected SLG
.451
 
Sprint Speed
24.7 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
43.5%
 
Line Drive %
17.4%
 
Fly Ball %
39.1%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2023
Holliday had one of the most impressive full-season debuts any teenage prospect has had in modern memory, and the scary thing is he may just be scratching the surface. He still has a babyface and room to add 20 pounds of muscle in the coming years, but that didn't stop him from logging a .323/.442/.499 slash line with 12 home runs, 24 steals, a 17.4 BB% and a 20.3 K% while being between two and seven years younger than the average player in the leagues he was in while climbing from Single-A to Triple-A as a 19-year-old. His exit velocities aren't as intense as the other hitters in the top five of prospect rankings, but the expectation is that he will hit the ball harder as his body matures. Holliday is a plus runner who hits left-handed, which is important given how his future home park plays (much better for lefty power than righty power). His defense is behind his offense, but it's really hard to nitpick that aspect of his game when most premier teenage shortstop prospects haven't played a game in the upper levels of the minors and he played 36 games at Double-A and 18 games at Triple-A. It's possible Holliday comes to camp 15 pounds stronger and looks ready on both sides of the ball in spring training and forces the issue. However, there's little incentive for Baltimore to expedite Holliday's ascent to the majors if they think he could benefit from a couple months at Triple-A.
Holliday helped himself more than any prospect in the 2022 draft class in the year leading up to the draft. The son of 14-year MLB vet Matt Holliday trained with the likes of his father and Nolan Arenado to add muscle and power, and he now projects as a lefty-hitting five-tool shortstop. Baltimore was drawn to everything about Holliday's game, with his handedness and ability to stick at shortstop possibly being the tiebreaker over Druw Jones at 1-1. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound 18-year-old already shows over-the-fence power to all fields, and at his best, he is driving the ball to the opposite-field gap. Holliday is a plus runner who is just starting to tap into his potential, and his lineage is an added bonus. His pro debut was a huge success in a small sample. Holliday slashed .297/.489/.422 with one home run, five doubles, four steals and a 12:25 K:BB in 20 games across the Florida Complex League and Single-A. That advanced approach should serve him well in his first full season, and the potential superstar could move very quickly up the ladder.
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Homers twice in loss
2BBaltimore Orioles
May 4, 2025
Holliday went 3-for-4 with two solo home runs in Sunday's 11-6 loss to the Royals.
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Resting against lefty
2BBaltimore Orioles
May 3, 2025
Holliday isn't in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Royals.
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Out against left-hander
2BBaltimore Orioles
April 29, 2025
Holliday is not in the lineup for Tuesday's contest versus the Yankees.
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Sitting versus southpaw
2BBaltimore Orioles
April 24, 2025
Holliday is not in the lineup for Thursday's contest against the Nationals, Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com reports.
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Day off Friday
2BBaltimore Orioles
April 18, 2025
Holliday is not in the lineup for Friday's game against the Reds, Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com reports.
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Swing adjustment paying off
2BBaltimore Orioles
May 7, 2025
On the advice of his father, Matt, and Baltimore's hitting coaches, Holliday is holding his hands more vertically in his stance and has gone 12-for-31 with two homers in his past 11 games, reports Jake Rill of MLB.com.
ANALYSIS
The second baseman struggled through most of the first month of the campaign with a .633 OPS through 18 games, but the past few weeks have been a different story with the swing tweak. Holliday's overall slash line of .272/.337/.435 is already a major improvement on the .566 OPS he posted across 60 contests as a rookie last year.
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