After weeks of speculation, the Orioles have got their man. With the #1 pick, they could have any player they wanted. When it came down to it, the one they wanted was not the player that most evaluators thought was the best player in the draft class, or the player who was thought to be available to save the O’s the most money. They selected Jackson Holliday, son of former MLBer Matt Holliday, a high school shortstop from Oklahoma.
Holliday is only a surprise pick if someone had talked themselves into Druw Jones - the #1 player - or Termarr Johnson.