The Traverse City Pit Spitters have named Houston native Jacqueline Holm as the team's new general manager. Holm, who previously served as GM of the Quad City River Bandits in the High-A Midwest League, will become the second GM in Pit Spitters history as the club prepares for its fifth season in 2023.

Holm’s track record in baseball began with the Sugar Land Skeeters, an independent Atlantic League team. Holm helped the Skeeters "gain notoriety through a variety of high-profile promotions and landmark events," according to a Pit Spitters release. At the conclusion of the 2015 season with the Skeeters, she moved to Davenport, Iowa, to join the River Bandits, where she held several leadership positions, finishing as the team’s general manager for the 2019 season.

"While with the River Bandits, Holm’s leadership saw the team transform their social media presence, substantially grow season ticket usage and retention, and win a Midwest League Championship, all of which garnered her a nomination for the Rawlings Midwest League Female Executive of the Year award in 2017," according to the release. "Outside of the ballpark, Holm also helped extend the team's reach into the community through her board work with a number of nonprofit and community organizations, including serving as president of the Davenport Rotary."

Since 2019, Holm has held leadership roles with the Scott County Family YMCA in Davenport Iowa and most recently led national event and tradeshow activities for an agriculture company based in Illinois. Holm says she is "thrilled" to have been selected as the new Pitters GM, saying that the "combination of the West Michigan Whitecaps ownership group along with the fantastic Pit Spitters staff and this growing market makes this role an incredible career opportunity." 

In her role as GM, Holm will oversee all aspects of Pit Spitters operation. Holm takes over for Mickey Graham, who announced this summer he was stepping down to pursue other opportunities. "I am incredibly excited to see the energy and ideas that Jacqueline will bring to our organization," says Whitecaps and Pit Spitters CEO and Managing Partner Joe Chamberlin. “Jacqueline is a leader and innovator in this industry, and I am thrilled we were able to get her out of the corporate world and back into baseball.”

The Pit Spitters are set to welcome Holm to Traverse City next week, according to the release.