Orioles' Holliday booked for All-Star Futures Game
NEW YORK — Baltimore Orioles infielder Jackson Holliday, the top pick in last year’s amateur draft and a son of former All-Star Matt Holliday, was among 14 first-round selections chosen for the All-Star Futures Game at T-Mobile Park in Seattle on July 8.
Holliday is hitting .325 with 14 doubles, 7 homers, 47 RBIs and 20 stolen bases in 63 games this year for Single-A Delmarva and High-A Aberdeen.
He was joined on the American League roster announced Tuesday by Baltimore outfielder Heston Kjerstad (second overall in 2020), Boston Red Sox infielders Marcelo Mayer (fourth in 2021) and Nick Yorke (17th in 2020), Seattle Mariners catcher Harry Ford (12th in 2021), New York Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones (25th in 2022), Oakland Athletics catcher Tyler Soderstrom (26th in 2020) and Houston Astros outfielder Drew Gilbert (28th in 2022).
National League first-rounders included Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Jordan Lawlar (sixth in 2021), Washington Nationals infielder Brady House (11th in 2021), Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Mick Abel (15th in 2020) and outfielder Justin Crawford (17th in 2022), Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete-Crow Armstrong (19th in 2020) and San Diego Padres infielder Jackson Merrill (27th in 2021).
Holliday is MLB’s top-rated prospect and is joined on the rosters by Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio, the No. 3 prospect. Cincinnati Reds infielder Elly De La Cruz, the No. 2 prospect, made his big league debut on June 6, and he is hitting .333 with 3 homers, 10 RBIs and 8 stolen bases in 17 games.
Twenty-eight of the top 100 prospects are on the rosters.
Pitchers among the top 100 include Abel, San Francisco Giants left-hander Kyle Harrison, Texas Rangers right-hander Owen White, St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Tink Hence and Milwaukee right-hander Jacob Misiorowski.
Four players are from the Dominican Republic, three are from Cuba, two from Venezuela and one each from the Bahamas and the Netherlands.
Former Mariners players Harold Reynolds (AL) and Raul Ibanez (NL) will be the managers.
