High school star Ethan Holliday agrees record $9m signing bonus with Rockies | Colorado Rockies
Ethan Holliday accepted a minor league contract with a bonus of $ 9 million with Colorado rockies on Tuesday, a record for a secondary school player in the current system.
Holliday, a son of the Grand Matt Holliday and the younger brother of the second goal from Baltimore, Jackson Holliday, was the overall choice n ° 4 of this year’s draft. The 6 -foot stop 4 inches of 6 feet 4 inches of Stillwater, Oklahoma, was classified by MLB Pipeline as an available perspective n ° 1.
The previous record for a high school player written as part of the current system was established this month by the overall choice n ° 1 Eli Willit, which agreed with a bonus of $ 8.2 million with Washington. This exceeded 8.19 million dollars given to Holliday’s brother Jackson, by Orioles in 2022.
The bonus also corresponds to the highest fourth for all the played players, because the choices were limited to the minor league contracts in 2012, dragging Cincinnati Chase Burns and the Voltiger of Colorado Charlie Condon (at 9.25 million dollars), the right -handers of Pittsburgh Paul Skenes ($ 9.2 million) and the Nationals Dylan Crews. These four players signed after frequenting the university.
Holliday’s family pedigree is impressive. He is the fourth member of his family to be appointed price of the baseball player of the year in Oklahoma after his uncle Josh, his father Matt and his brother Jackson. Before his last year in high school, he had signed an approval agreement with Adidas and posted an average of the stick of 0.611, reaching 19 circuits in 33 games with an OPS of 2.038.
His father, Matt, was an All-Star seven times during a career, mainly spent with the Rockies and the Cardinals of St Louis, with whom he won the World Series in 2011.
