Fantasy baseball: Shortstops to drop for Jackson Holliday - ESPN

Everyone celebrate, as Jackson Holliday is here!

Baseball's universally regarded No. 1 overall prospect, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2022 amateur draft, and the son of seven-time All Star and four-time Silver Slugger award winner Matt Holliday, Jackson Holliday received the call to the majors from the Baltimore Orioles late Tuesday night. He'll presumably take over their starting second base role beginning on Wednesday night against the Boston Red Sox, and play there regularly (if he's not shifted to shortstop at some future point) for years to come.

Despite much attention surrounding his quest to break spring training camp with the Orioles — Holliday hit .311/.354/.600 with two home runs over his 15 Grapefruit League games, a stat line plenty deserving of his doing so — he instead began the season with Triple-A Norfolk, where he had concluded the 2023 season.

At the time it appeared he might begin 2024 as the Orioles' every-day second baseman and he was rostered in 62.9% of ESPN leagues one week in advance of the U.S. Opening Day (March 28). On that March 28 date, when it became clear he would in fact begin in the minors, that roster percentage dropped to 53.8%. By Tuesday, that number had shrunk to 42.7%.

That's an opportunity, fantasy managers: Holliday was out there in more than half of ESPN leagues just one day ago — and he might still be available in yours. Remedy that immediately.

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Despite his being all of 20 years and 128 days old, Holliday's fantasy potential is projected already as good as all but his position's elite — not the Bobby Witt Jr., Corey Seager or Trea Turner types,