📷 Rockies' Holliday throwback on draft day

The Colorado Rockies volition spot 2 generations of Hollidays.

The franchise selected Ethan Holliday -- lad of erstwhile Rocky and seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday -- with the No. 4 prime successful the MLB draught connected Sunday.

Matt spent his archetypal 7 MLB seasons with the Rockies arsenic good arsenic his last run successful 2018. Colorado selected Matt successful the seventh circular successful 1998, and helium played a cardinal relation successful the franchise reaching its archetypal World Series, successful 2007.

According to ESPN Research, Ethan is the archetypal top-five prime to beryllium drafted by a squad for whom his begetter played.

Ethan -- who played infield astatine Oklahoma's Stillwater High School -- besides is the member of Baltimore Orioles 2nd baseman Jackson Holliday.

Moments aft Ethan was selected, Colorado posted a photograph of him with a Rockies azygous connected holding a purple bat with a pacifier successful his mouth. In a abstracted slide, Matt is cradling Ethan arsenic a toddler successful a purple Rockies shirt.

"I had a small spot of a feeling arsenic the days started trickling down -- determination was a small thing wrong maine that was benignant of leaning towards the Rockies," Ethan Holliday said, according to MLB.com. "And my ma [Leslee Holliday] said she had a feeling too. We're truthful juiced and truthful excited for this opportunity, and it's beauteous incredible."

Ethan was the 2025 Oklahoma Gatorade subordinate of the twelvemonth and 2025 MaxPreps Oklahoma subordinate of the year. He had a .611 batting mean positive 19 location runs and 64 RBIs past season.