This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/rockies as Rockies Select Four Potential Difference Makers in Day 1 of 2025 MLB Draft. The Colorado Rockies were on the clock at pick No. 4 of the first round, likely hoping that a certain player would fall to them.

Holliday will join his brother, Jackson, in MLB — and will do so with the same team that selected his father, Matt, in the seventh round of the 1998 draft.

As a senior at Oklahoma’s Stillwater High School, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound Holliday hit .611 with a 2.038 OPS, 19 home runs and 64 RBIs.