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Orioles moving Holliday from Aberdeen to Bowie; Mayo, McDermott go to Norfolk

After appearing in the Saturday’s Futures Game in Seattle, baseball’s No. 1 prospect, shortstop Jackson Holliday, will begin the second half of the season at Double-A Bowie.

The Orioles are also promoting two other highly rated prospects — infielder Coby Mayo and starting pitcher Chayce McDermott from Bowie to Triple-A Norfolk.

The moves were first reported by MASNsports.com and confirmed by an industry source.

It will be the third minor league level this year for the 19-year-old Holliday, who was drafted first overall in last year’s draft. After hitting .396 with two home runs and 16 RBIs and a 1.183 OPS in 14 games at Single-A Delmarva, Holliday hit .314 with five homers and 35 RBIs and a .940 OPS in 57 games at High-A Aberdeen.

Bowie will return to action on Friday against Akron at Prince George’s Stadium.

Mayo, MLB Pipeline’s 76th-ranked prospect and its seventh-rated Orioles prospect, hit .307 with 17 homers and 44 RBIs and a 1.027 OPS in 78 games for the Baysox. The 21-year-old played at third base and first. He was the Orioles’ fourth-round pick in 2020.

McDermott, 24, the team’s 17th-rated prospect, was acquired from Houston in the Trey Mancini trade last August. He was 5-6 with a 3.56 earned-run average in 16 games for Bowie.

Mayo and McDermott will join the Tides on Friday when they host Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Rich Dubroff

Rich Dubroff grew up in Brooklyn as a fan of New York teams, but after he moved to Baltimore, quickly adopted the Orioles and Colts. After nearly two decades as a freelancer assisting on Orioles coverage for several outlets, principally The Capital in Annapolis and The Carroll County Times, Dubroff began covering the team fulltime in 2011. He spent five years at Comcast SportsNet’s website and for the last two seasons, wrote for PressBoxonline.com, Dubroff lives in Baltimore with his wife of more than 30 years, Susan.

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