So you think the financial argument for sending him down is sound? Because I don't. The outcomes that are beneficial to the Orioles by sending him down to play service time games are extremely narrow,....
I want all of the better outcomes and I think the financial argument (article?) is irrelevant.
I don't accept the service time argument if you have any standards for your development timeline.
I don't understand why you are suggesting there isn't a benefit for the Orioles by waiting.
...especially when you factor in that it wouldn't take much for the O's to send him down for more seasoning if he faltered even the slightest bit.
...so nobody seems to want to pick a lane here. If he has to be in the Majors RIGHT NOW because of his incredible performance, you lose the year anyway. If he doesn't perform for even a week(?) then we send him down? When does he come back up? Are you betting that he's a hammer or not?
Personally, I would expect more modest performance for a 20 year old with one professional season under his belt, for all of the discussions of other players, NONE of them has been promoted (HSers) nearly as quickly as many are suggesting MUST happen here.
Maybe he'll be great, maybe it takes some time to adjust to ML over the grind of a long season, but development risk is a sliding scale. You never get to 1.0 versus 0.0....it's 20/80, 50/50, 80/20. Holliday is in the 20/80 box for me where Norby would be more in the 80/20 box (but nobody cares about Norby, we can't trade him and now he's playing OF?)
I'll keep saying this...I'm not invested in the answer. Whatever choices they make come with consequences. All we're doing now is balancing risk/reward of the different elements of the decision. The only outcome we know 100% is that once you promote him the clock to FA starts. You aren't (and shouldn't unless it's an extreme case) jerk him around by sending him back down. It's OPSing anything over .600....he's sticking around.
Jackson Holliday can not justify rebuilding for anyone that thinks that's a thing. We won 101 without him. We're generally considered the favorites without him. He can certainly be part of winning, but when he leaves, we still have to win. When Jackson Holliday takes off for his next financial pasture, we don't need to rebuild again to try and find the next "Jackson H9olliday".