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Francisco Lindor wishes Orioles kept Jackson Holliday in majors despite brutal start

Francisco Lindor wishes Orioles kept Jackson Holliday in majors despite brutal start

Francisco Lindor was 21 games into his major league career in July 2015 and found himself hitting .205 with an OPS of just .492 with Cleveland. The eighth overall pick in the MLB draft in 2011, less than a month after getting called up, wasn't sure what his future would be — or if it would include a trip back to the minors. But it was right around that time, Lindor said Friday, that his manager, Terry Francona, had a talk with the 21-year-old that “changed everything.” “I was struggling and one day Francona opened the door in the clubhouse one day and said, 'You ain't going anywhere,'” Lindor recalled. “He said, 'You're going to be hitting second every single day. Go get 'em.' That turned my