Jackson Holliday

With the No. 1 pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, the Orioles selected shortstop Jackson Holliday.

He’s got good power from the left side of the plate to go along with an advanced approach in the box. He’s also improved his quickness defensively, giving him a strong chance to be able to stick at the shortstop position. “The upside for him is enormous,” Elias said. And Jackson’s grandfather, Tom, coached Oklahoma State baseball for 26 years. They even hit back-to-back homers in one game. With the No. 1 pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, the Orioles selected shortstop Jackson Holliday.

Holliday joins Adley Rutschman (2019) and Ben McDonald (1989) as players taken by the Orioles with the 1-1 pick, and he is the first high schooler taken first ...

With Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg also in Baltimore’s system as blue-chip shortstop prospects, the O’s have built up some enviable depth at a key position on the diamond. The Orioles have a $16,924,000 bonus pool, and the first overall pick has an assigned slot value of $8,842,200. The Orioles selected high school shortstop Jackson Holliday with the first overall selection of the 2022 amateur draft.

Holliday is another top prospect with big-league bloodlines working in his favor. His father Matt made seven All-Star Games over a 15-year career, and his uncle ...

The Baltimore Orioles selected Oklahoma prep shortstop Jackson Holliday with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball's 2022 amateur draft on Sunday night. He's no longer pulling off pitches as frequently as he had in the past, and he's more open to using the whole field. That's when theAstrostook Carlos Correaover Byron Buxtonwith the No. 1 pick.

Fifteen years after seeing his father play in the World Series as a member of the Colorado Rockies, Jackson Holliday's Major League Baseball journey has ...

Adding Holliday to the mix will go a long way toward ensuring that Baltimore's farm system remains strong as many of those prospects start to graduate within the next year or two. The Athletic's Keith Law had Baltimore's farm system ranked as the 10th-best group in MLB coming into this season. He's got excellent speed and some twitchiness to handle the position, but a lot will be determined by how he changes physically as his body continues to mature. Holliday is the oldest son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday. Matt was a seventh-round draft pick by the Rockies out of Stillwater High School in 1998. The 18-year-old was named Oklahoma's Baseball Player of the Year after a historic 2022 high school season. "Holliday has an advanced approach, no surprise given his roots, and a knack for putting the barrel on the ball.

The Orioles selected Oklahoma high school shortstop Jackson Holliday, the son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, with the first overall pick in the 2022 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baltimore chose shortstop Jackson Holliday, a son of former batting champion Matt Holliday, with the top pick in baseball's amateur draft ...

In addition, a player enrolled at a four-year college is not eligible until the end of his junior year. The value decreases to $2,486,800 by pick 30 and $807,200 by No. 80. Pittsburgh used the fourth pick on second baseman Termarr Johnson of Mays High in Georgia, a product of baseball's Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities program. Taken in the 11th round and 321st overall, he debuted this May 13. In contrast to other sports, baseball draft picks take time to reach the majors. The Orioles recovered from an 8-16 start to enter the All-Star break at 46-46, just 3 1/2 games back of a wild-card berth. Rocker, a 22-year-old from Georgia, failed to sign last year after the Mets became concerned over his physical. His dad was a seven-time All-Star and the 2007 NL batting champion. Jones is a 6-foot-3 18-year-old from Wesleyan High in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. He hit .570 with 13 homers, 39 RBIs, 72 runs, 33 walks and 32 stolen bases this year. Texas used the third pick on Kumar Rocker, a 6-foot-5 right-hander who failed to sign with the New York Mets after being selected 10th overall last year. Holliday, a left-handed-hitting shortstop from Stillwater High in Oklahoma, is 6-foot-1 and 175 pounds — quite a bit smaller than his 6-foot-4, 240-pound father. Texas chose Leiter with the No. 2 pick last year.

Stillwater's Jackson Holliday is projected to be a top-5 pick in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday.

Jackson may have grown up, imitating the swing of big-league players. All those years ago, Holliday was just a kid in the stands, pretending to be a professional baseball player. “It’s starting to get a little bit more real,” Jackson said. “I think (Jackson’s) pretty nervous just to find out because it decides what the next 10 years looks like.” Throughout this time, Jackson has taken the opportunity to play baseball. It’s his swing. Matt finished second in the National League Most Valuable Player voting in 2007 after leading the Rockies to their first-ever World Series appearance. But despite who his father is, Jackson hasn’t been treated any differently from the other kids. If not, I’ll get to go to OSU and play with a lot of my friends, my uncle and my dad. “You wouldn’t know that’s my dad when I was little,” Jackson said. “It’s kind of just in my blood, I guess. He also tallied 37 singles, 29 doubles and six triples.

The Baltimore Orioles selected shortstop Jackson Holliday with the No. 1 pick in the 2022 MLB Draft Sunday night. Hailing from Stillwater, Okla.

The first round of the MLB Draft is Sunday night. The first round of the MLB Draft is Sunday night. This is what Keith Law is hearing. He’s got the best swing in the draft or one of the best swings in the draft. The son of Andruw Jones, Druw attended Wesleyan School in Norcross, Ga. Hailing from Stillwater, Okla. Holliday is the Gatorade Oklahoma prep player of the year.

Pitcher Kumar Rocker, unsigned by the Mets after being chosen 10th last year, was a surprise selection by the Rangers with the No. 3 pick.

Yet even as those born into baseball dominated the first round, Sunday night’s class also was historic for its diversity: For the first time in major league history, four of the first five picks are Black, an encouraging trend for a game that has seen the number of Black players drop precipitously over the past few decades. At No. 5, the Nationals made IMG Academy outfielder Elijah Green their highest draft pick since Bryce Harper in 2010, opting for upside instead of a more proven college player for the second straight season. All of those picks are on track to make the majors within the next year or so. Because the Mets did not sign him last year, they were awarded an additional first-round pick this year and chose twice in the first 14 selections. And they added another young talent to a system that recently produced Adley Rutschman and has top prospects Gunnar Henderson and Grayson Rodriguez likely to debut soon. As it happened, he was selected significantly higher than before — as the first pitcher in a draft class that did not contain as many first-round arms as normal.

Holliday, son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, could mimic batting stances of MLB superstars as a child.

According to a New York Times profile on Matt's family before the 2007 World Series, the then 3-year-old Jackson often mimicked the batting stances of MLB superstars such as Albert Pujols and David Ortiz. As the son of seven-time All-Star and World Series champion Matt Holliday, Jackson Holliday's path to Major League Baseball was clearer than most. Longtime Rockies video coordinator Brian Jones added Jackson "just picks up on everything."