A few weeks before the draft, Orioles GM Mike Elias told reporters that the team had narrowed down to five players as possible choices for the #1 pick. He didn’t name the players, but it hasn’t been hard for the draft writers of the world to look at the top of their own boards and figure out who is of interest to the Orioles. One player on their radar is Oklahoma high school shortstop Jackson Holliday.
Holliday is the son of 15-year MLB veteran and seven-time All-Star outfielder Matt Holliday, so he has the MLB bloodlines in common with Druw Jones, who sits in the #1 spot on the prospect list for a lot of publications for this draft.