Ethan Holliday is likely taking reps in the cage at this very moment. The Holliday baseball training facility at their home in Stillwater, Oklahoma, is a faith-driven hub for molding Major League Baseball’s future stars. In particular, of course, are the Holliday brothers.
Jackson, the number one pick of the 2022 MLB draft, wants to improve his contact rate and reduce his strikeouts. In 2024, his rookie year, Jackson offered fans a brief glimpse of his potential greatness. His younger brother Ethan possesses a similar left-handed power stroke with a slight, natural uppercut trajectory that implies gaps and home runs—lots of home runs.
The Holliday brothers’ baseball pedigree separates them from the pack of top prospects. That lineage has provided the boys with steady exposure to big-league life and pathways toward the best tutelage and coaching available.
They have their Dad, former 15-year MLB veteran, seven-time All-Star, and World Series Champion Matt Holliday, as their primary coach, scout, and ultimate advocate. Since retiring from the game in 2018, Matt has been available to throw BP in their hitting complex, fine-tuning the swings of these two future stars.
Availability and access also extend to the facilities of nearby O’Brate Stadium and the baseball complex at Oklahoma State University. That is where Matt’s younger brother Josh Holliday, who was the 2014 Coach of the Year, serves as Head Coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Jackson, Ethan, and cousin Brady Holliday haven’t had to venture far in their young lives to attend facilities where family and, again, faith are the combined force to success. They have remained committed, for their whole lives, towards sharpening their skills in all areas of the game.
Jackson Holliday has become a household name for baseball enthusiasts over the past 3 years. However, Ethan Holliday has begun to emerge as a towering figure in any projected 2025 MLB mock drafts.
Ethan sits well ahead of a group of polished and accomplished players from elite Division 1 programs. Players such as power-hitting Texas A&M outfielder Jace LaViolette or dominant UC Santa Barbara pitcher Tyler Bremner have remained well behind Ethan Holliday in draft projections since Ethan’s junior season last Spring.
As an overall player, one can’t help but draw early comparisons to Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson. Both players are left-handed hitting prodigies with limitless power potential and consistent power stroke, supported by a muscular six-foot-four frame. Ethan Holliday has a decent, accurate, but less-than-overpowering arm like Henderson. The differences are his fundamentals.
His ability to attack ground balls and throw across the diamond resembles Henderson’s. The defense is not shock and awe, like what Jackson has shown flashes of at times. However, it will undoubtedly get by at all levels as he climbs to the show of the club that drafts him.
Ethan Holliday appears ready. The steady exposure and unparalleled access to the best coaching the game can offer are about to reap the rewards. Combine that with faith and a pedigree that has culminated from generations of great success in the game, and you have a player who will not be stopped on his way to stardom. Deciding whether to draft Holliday at number one for the Washington Nationals might be a no-brainer.
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