Rockies finally have hope, and his name is Ethan Holliday

The Colorado Rockies needed this.

Picking No. 4 wide successful Sunday's MLB Draft, location was 1 sanction that would mean truthful overmuch much to nan Rockies than immoderate other. And he fell to them, and they didn't walk him up: Ethan Holliday.

Holliday is nan boy of nan all-time awesome Rockies hitter Matt Holliday. He's nan relative of erstwhile No. 1 wide prime Jackson Holliday, now a rising prima for nan Orioles.

This Holliday, nan small brother, is simply a 6-foot-4 shortstop retired of Stillwater, Oklahoma. He conscionable vanished his elder twelvemonth of precocious school.

He's a soft lefty swinger pinch powerfulness and velocity and an perfectly superb ball-playing pedigree.

"He's a cornerstone, franchise-type player," MLB Network's Dan O'Dowd said connected nan broadcast.

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Rockies fans don't request to beryllium reminded really reliable this era of shot has been. Some of their fondest memories of this quarter-century day backmost to that No. 7 'Holliday' who made truthful galore unthinkable plays successful large moments for nan franchise.

The dream successful Colorado now is that Ethan Holliday tin beryllium nan adjacent look of nan franchise, nan young man who alters nan people of a Rockies squad successful dire request of a people correction.

He's sewage nan talent. He's sewage nan charisma. He's sewage nan support system.

And now Ethan Holliday is heading to nan Colorado Rockies. It's nan commencement of a caller era there. It's nan Ethan Holliday Era successful Colorado.

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