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.

Ethan Holliday was almost 8 months old when his father, Matt Holliday, and his big brother, Jackson – then 4 years old but aware – were on the infield at Coors Field celebrating the Rockies’ qualification for the 2007 World Series.