The Orioles eventually cease considering Jackson Holliday to be just another prospect with a call-up.

You wouldn’t shuffle a winning lotto ticket into a stack. You wouldn’t throw a rare coin into a pile of loose change.

As much as the Orioles have gotten used to grooming talented prospects, they made a mistake with Jackson Holliday: They treated him like one of the rest.

That questionable decision is now being swiftly corrected. Just weeks after the club decided the No. 1 overall prospect in baseball was not yet ready for his major league debut, he’s called up to join the team in Boston.

Manager Brandon Hyde said it himself back in March when asked if Holliday looked like a big-leaguer: “It’s hard to say he doesn’t.” That line came back to bite him when the front office sent Holliday back to the minors, even though the 20-year-old did seemingly everything the Orioles had asked of him this spring.

If you believe that Holliday benefited tremendously from two weeks of bullying Triple-A pitching — batting .333 and getting on-base nearly half of his at-bats — well shoot, I’ve got some NFTs I’d like to sell you. Holliday’s promotion is a backtrack, a recognition that he was ready to play when Baltimore’s front office said, Hold on, not so fast.

When Holliday reaches Fenway Park on Wednesday, the Orioles ought to roll out the red carpet. They should have been doing it from the start.