If he cruises there, too, he could finish up in Double-A Bowie. But a natural progression, assuming he continues to succeed at each level, would be having Holliday play most of this season with Aberdeen. That’s purely speculative so many things can happen between now and then, including injuries. My gut says at some point after May 2025. Once it was announced that Holliday, the son of former MLB All-Star Matt Holliday, was beginning his ascent up the minor-league ladder, I immediately received the inevitable questions about when we might see him playing in Baltimore. What is he, still 19? So, it was fun to watch him, fun to be around him this spring, and he’s a very talented kid.” He was really impressive in major-league spring training,” Hyde said. “It sounds like he got off to a great start in Low A, and we’re happy he’s being promoted. 392/.523/.667 with two homers, 15 RBIs, 14 walks and 12 strikeouts in 13 games. It’s fair to say Holliday, 19, met the challenge at Delmarva, slashing. It was less of a surprise Monday when the Orioles promoted Holliday to High-A Aberdeen after 13 games this season with the Shorebirds.Įlias and Blood like their minor leaguers to graduate levels but also will move them when it appears they are no longer being challenged. 1 pick, infielder Jackson Holliday, back to Low-A Delmarva, where he compiled a. Given how the Orioles have handled their prospects under general manager Mike Elias and player development director Matt Blood, it was only a minor surprise that the organization decided this spring to send last year’s No. And it’s something that has become a bit of an Orioles specialty recently: the out-of-nowhere quality reliever. It’s something we never would have expected when the club left Sarasota in late March. With the way he has been pitching, he’ll probably get more chances when Bautista needs a break. It was Cano’s first big-league save - he’s had 12 in the minors and 18 in the Cuban National Series - and he said he’s saving the ball as a memento. So, it was great to just see him catch that line drive at the end to win us the game.” “When I saw Ramón get that line drive, I was finally like, ‘Oh, man, I can finally breathe and relax a little bit.’ Because the moment he hit it, I was, like, super tensed up. But he then struck out the first two batters he faced and induced a liner to third baseman Ramón Urías to end the game. So, it’s been fun watching these guys pitch.”Īfter Coulombe walked the first batter of the ninth, Cano entered and balked the runner to second base. “And he’s got a really good sinker and a really good changeup that you saw and a nice slider he can throw to right-handers. “You didn’t know what Cano was gonna do, besides he was pitching really well in Triple A and you were hoping it was going to translate up here,” Hyde said. “It’s been a big difference just working on that weakness, trying to control myself, trying to control my pitches better to come out here and do a good job now.”Ĭano made some mechanical changes, and he has also gained a lot of confidence in his 95 mph, bowling ball sinker, a hard slider and a devastating changeup.Īnd his results in the majors this season have given manager Brandon Hyde confidence in Cano - so much that with Bautista needing a day off, Hyde turned to Cano with one on and no outs in a 5-4 game in the ninth. I think last year in four innings I had, like, (five) walks,” Cano said through interpreter Brandon Quinones. Since he was called up from the minors on April 14, Cano has retired all 20 batters he has faced, the longest such streak by an Oriole to start a season since Fred Holdsworth in 1976. Frankly, I wondered why he remained on the 40-man roster all winter. Technically, he was one of four players received in last August’s trade with the Twins for reliever Jorge López.īut that guy issued five walks and allowed nine hits in 4 1/3 innings for the Orioles in a sour cup of coffee in 2022. He’d had a solid track record.īut what about Cano, the 29-year-old Cuban right-hander who picked up his first big-league save Monday night in a tense, 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox to extend the Orioles’ winning streak to seven? Coulombe, a veteran lefty of parts of nine seasons who pitched a scoreless eighth inning Monday, was acquired by the Orioles from the Minnesota Twins in late March for cash considerations.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |