Jackson and Ethan Holliday - Baseball brothers on living out their faith and playing for an audience of one
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Jackson Holliday was the number one overall pick in the 2022 MLB Amateur Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. In 2023, he was named Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year.
Ethan Holliday is a high school junior and currently ranked number one by Baseball America top MLB Draft prospects.
Today on the podcast, Annabelle Hasselbeck talks to the Holliday brothers about their baseball journey, pressure being a privilege, having a competitive mindset, tuning out the noise, living for Jesus and Jackson Holliday's wedding to his wife Chloe.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Today on Sports Spectrum, we welcome in a new host to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Well, she's filling in for me anyways. We have Annabelle Hasselbeck hosting today's |
| 0:10.6 | Sports Spectrum conversation. Annabelle is in college. She's at Boston College. She plays lacrosse. |
| 0:17.5 | And yes, you know that last name, Hasselback. She is the daughter of Matt Hasselback, longtime NFL quarterback. |
| 0:25.3 | Annabelle is going to sit in for me today and have a conversation with two pretty darn good |
| 0:32.7 | baseball players, maybe the best at the stage that they're at. |
| 0:38.1 | Jackson Holiday is the number one overall draft pick from the Baltimore Orioles in |
| 0:43.0 | 2022 and just 20 years old ascending all the way to achieving his dream of being in the |
| 0:50.0 | big leagues with the Orioles here in 2024. |
| 0:54.0 | And his brother is Ethan Holiday. |
| 0:56.6 | Now, you may not know about Ethan yet, but you're going to because this kid is the number |
| 1:01.8 | one ranked prospect in all of high school for the class of 2025 and could follow in his |
| 1:09.2 | brother's footsteps and be a number one overall pick in the 2025 |
| 1:14.1 | in the 2025 Major League Baseball draft. |
| 1:16.4 | Now, you know the last name, Holiday, as well, because Jackson and Ethan are the sons |
| 1:21.3 | of longtime Major League Baseball All-Star and World Series champion Matt Holiday, |
| 1:30.3 | longtime Colorado Rocky, St. Louis Cardinal. |
| 1:37.0 | And then, of course, the sons of Leslie Holiday, who is awesome and been on many sports spectrum shows. And Leslie does great work in ministry with the women in baseball, football, |
| 1:44.7 | basketball. She's doing awesome stuff as well. So the holiday family baseball, football, basketball. |
| 1:46.2 | She's doing awesome stuff as well. |
| 1:49.6 | So the holiday family, they're great friends and they're amazing people. |
| 1:52.7 | And we get to talk to Jackson and Ethan today. |
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