Ethan Holliday’s rise in the Rockies’ system has hit pause because of injury, but his profile keeps climbing anyway.
The 19-year-old shortstop, Colorado’s first-round pick in the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft at No. 4 overall, is set to be part of a new MLB and NBC Sports docuseries on Peacock. The multi-episode project, “Road to the Show,” will follow six of the game’s top prospects and put Holliday in the spotlight as his pro journey begins to take shape.
The series will also include Brewers shortstop Jesús Made, MLB’s No. 1 prospect; White Sox outfielder Braden Montgomery; Phillies right-hander Gage Wood; and college standouts Roch Cholowsky of UCLA and Justin Lebron of Alabama. Cholowsky and Lebron are both expected to go in the first round of the MLB Draft on July 11.
Holliday entered pro ball carrying a famous name and plenty of expectations. He is the son of former Rockies star Matt Holliday and the brother of Orioles infielder Jackson Holliday, giving him a built-in baseball lineage that already makes his story stand out. MLB’s new series aims to dig into that background and the road that brought him here.
Before the injury ended his season, Holliday was batting .262 with nine home runs and 32 RBI in 33 games for Single-A Fresno. The Rockies expect him to be in camp next spring with the big club.
That combination of production, pedigree and polish has already pushed Holliday to No. 17 on MLB’s overall prospect list. For Colorado, he sits alongside fellow young name Charlie Condon as part of the group the organization hopes will shape its next winning wave.
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