Jackson Holliday Savagely Calls The MLB His First 'Challenge' Amid All-Time Bad Start In The Show

Terrible. That's one of the many negative adjectives one could use to describe Jackson Holliday's first couple of weeks in MLB. Despite how terrible the start of his young career has been, the 20-year-old doesn't appear to have lost an ounce of confidence.

Holliday, baseball's top prospect entering the 2024 campaign, has stepped to the plate 34 times since making his MLB debut on April 10. He's managed to pick up just two hits, draw two walks, and has struck out a whopping 18 times.

With his batting average sitting at a whopping .059, Holliday has understandably taken criticism from just about everyone paying any attention at all to the game of baseball. You add the fact that he's the son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, and the target on the young man's back is about as large as it gets.

Despite not being old enough to legally buy a drink, he appears to be taking both the slump and the criticisms in stride. 

"Obviously, I wasn’t expecting this," Holliday told The Athletic. "I knew what I was getting myself into. It’s the best of the best of the best for a reason. I guess I haven’t had a challenge yet, and this is the first one. … It’s obviously challenging, but I feel like I’m handling it the best that I can."

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Holliday claiming that the MLB is the first challenge he's ever faced in baseball is some savage behavior. He may be failing the challenge rather miserably at the moment, but every challenge has its ups and its downs.

Holliday experienced mostly ups during his time in the Minors.

In 2022, he hit .238 with four doubles and six RBI over the course of his 12-game stint in Single-A ball. A year ago, Holliday made his way from Single-A to Triple-A and put on a clinic with a batting average of .323 to go along with 12 homers, 75 RBI, 30 doubles, and nine triples in 477 plate appearances.

Things can't get worse for the young phenom in The Show, and he's at the very least saying all the right things as he searches for any form of consistency at the dish.