{"id":746032,"date":"2026-04-22T19:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746032\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:20","slug":"jackson-holliday-undergoing-mri-for-continued-hand-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746032\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Holliday Undergoing MRI For Continued Hand Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday<\/a><\/strong> is in Baltimore for another MRI on his ailing right hand, the team announced to reporters (link via Andy Kostka of the Baltimore Banner<\/a>). The O\u2019s will likely have further updates once the imaging has been performed. However, with an off-day tomorrow, said update might not come before Friday.<\/p>\n

Holliday suffered a broken hamate bone during a batting practice swing early in spring training. He had surgery on Feb. 12 to remove the hamate hook \u2014 standard procedure for hitters who incur this injury. That surgery typically comes with a recovery period of four to eight weeks, but Holliday hasn\u2019t been able to get back on track. The O\u2019s halted his first rehab stint and sent him for additional testing. He went out on a new rehab stint a few days later but has now been pulled back again after experiencing another painful swing.<\/p>\n

Now more than two months removed from the surgery, Holliday still doesn\u2019t appear all that close to joining the Orioles. The 22-year-old has taken 56 plate appearances between High-A Frederick and Triple-A Norfolk during his pair of rehab stints and carries an anemic .176\/.250\/.235 batting line with a 23.2% strikeout rate and a 5.4% walk rate. He\u2019s averaged 86.3 mph off the bat with just a 26.7% hard-hit rate in his 47 plate appearances in Norfolk.<\/p>\n

With Holliday sidelined, the Orioles have given utilityman Jeremiah Jackson<\/a><\/strong> the lion\u2019s share of playing time at second base. He\u2019s responded with a stout .297\/.321\/.527 batting line (136 wRC+) and five home runs in 78 turns at the plate.<\/p>\n

Whether he can sustain that is an open question. Jackson has benefited from a .327 average on balls in play \u2014 a higher-than-average mark, but not egregiously so. (League average thus far is .289.) However, he\u2019s walked only three times (2.6%), and his 73.2% contact rate ranks 139th among the 195 MLB hitters who\u2019ve tallied at least 70 plate appearances this season. His free-swinging, low-contact approach could well prove exploitable over a larger sample, but for the time being, Jackson has more than capably held down the fort at the keystone.<\/p>\n

Holliday\u2019s eventual return could have ramifications around the infield. If Jackson is still hitting well, he could slide over to third base in place of former top prospect Coby Mayo<\/a><\/strong>. The expectation was that Mayo\u2019s bat would be fine at the hot corner in place of the injured Jordan Westburg<\/a><\/strong>, but there were substantial questions about his defense. The inverse has played out. Mayo has looked plenty solid with the glove, but he\u2019s continued to flounder against big league pitchers, hitting just .158\/.262\/.246 with a homer and a 27.7% strikeout rate. Mayo has drawn plenty of walks but hasn\u2019t hit the ball hard (86.3 mph average exit velocity, 33.3% hard-hit rate).<\/p>\n

Time will tell how much longer Holliday remains sidelined, but recent developments certainly aren\u2019t encouraging. The former No. 1 pick hit .242\/.314\/.375 with 17 homers and 17 steals last year as a 21-year-old in his first full major league season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday is in Baltimore for another MRI on his ailing right hand, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":746033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[127589,22898,117228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-746032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-coby-mayo","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-jeremiah-jackson","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116450124672610926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}