MLB Rumors: Cardinals trade doors open, Braves trade deadline shift, absurd Jackson Holliday trade

MLB Rumors: Absurd Jackson Holliday trade floated between Orioles-White Sox

Who doesn’t love having some fun at the MLB Trade Deadline? Even if it’s unlikely, it’s always fun to dream about trades that ultimately make sense and would send shockwaves throughout the baseball world. But one analyst’s pipe-dream suggestion for the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox might take the cake for being the most ridiculous trade ever proposes.

Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report propsed a handful of what was branded as “outrageous” trades to shake things up in MLB, but the cake was taken with this proposed trade that would send baseball’s top prospect, Jackson Holliday of the Orioles.

On one hand, this move would undoubtedly help the Orioles, in second place in the frenzied AL East, address their biggest weakness with immediate starting pitching help and club control with a Cy Young candidate in Cease until 2025. Moreover, they could still keep the system’s infield depth with Lenyn Sosa as well.

The other hand, however, is that Holliday looks like the goods and remains just 18 years old. The No. 1 overall pick from the 2022 MLB Draft — and the son of MLB legend Matt Holliday — has been raking already at just 19 years old in High-A ball this season, slashing .295/.440/.472 over 54 games with five homers, five triples, nine doubles, 33 RBI and 17 stolen bases. He looks like the absolute goods.

Baltimore even considering trading Holliday at this age and with that type of potential, even for obvious immediate help, is truly absurd. As far as outrageous trades go, this is a touch too far and every O’s fan — especially with the success of the young players the system has developed to get them to this point in the 2023 season — is scoffing at this notion.