{"id":598353,"date":"2026-02-28T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/598353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:33:16","slug":"jackson-holliday-takes-big-next-step-amid-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/598353\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Holliday takes big next step amid injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles\/orioles-news-baltimore-trade-rays-pitcher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles are hoping to improve in 2026<\/a>, after a disappointing 2025 campaign. One key player the Orioles are looking to for help is infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/jackson-holliday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Holliday<\/a>. Holliday was hurt during <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spring training<\/a>, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/afkostka\/status\/2027750973930693054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">looking to get healthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrioles infielder Jackson Holliday said he has begun throwing a baseball again after having his broken hamate bone removed from his right hand. He said he\u2019s supposed to begin swinging Thursday, as part of a steady buildup,\u201d Orioles reporter Andy Kostka posted to X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Holliday is already ruled out for Opening Day. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/jackson-holliday-stitches-removed-right-hand-timeline-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is making progress<\/a> though and is excited to play with his new teammates, including Pete Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith some new slang, new coaches, you don\u2019t want to be too far behind,\u201d Holliday said recently, per MLB.com. \u201cI\u2019d rather be just behind on playing and actual reps as opposed to having to learn all of our new stuff on the fly. Just being out there, trying to be as mentally prepared as possible to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles finished the 2025 season with a 75-87 record. Baltimore finished last in the American League East.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Holliday is seen as a core piece of the Orioles roster<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3711906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jackson-Holliday_61c922.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore Orioles second base Jackson Holliday (7) runs to the dugout before the game against the New York Yankees at Oriole Park at Camden Yards\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Holliday is one of the youngest players on the Baltimore roster. He has played though a significant amount of games in the last few seasons. During the 2025 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles\/orioles-news-jackson-holliday-joins-manny-machado-brooks-robinson-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holliday hit at a .242 batting average with 17 home runs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The young Orioles star is hoping to be back playing with the club by April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I know, I think that\u2019s the goal. I think the timeline\u2019s pretty similar, should be somewhat close to being ready,\u201d Holliday said. \u201cIt&#8217;s just more of being the player that I want to be, not just rushing out there to fail and try to just make the team out of camp. So just making sure that I\u2019m ready to roll and be the best second baseman that I can be is kind of the outlook I have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could probably rush it and get back for Opening Day, but just making sure that I\u2019m ready to roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore plays a spring training game with the Atlanta Braves on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Orioles are hoping to improve in 2026, after a disappointing 2025 campaign. One key player the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,1514,4,3410,125,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-598353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-jackson-holliday","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-injury","15":"tag-orioles","16":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116149224548507954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}