BOSTON — On barely three hours of sleep, without an ounce of caffeine in his system, Jackson Holliday settled into the biggest day of his young life.
The afternoon before his long-awaited MLB debut, baseball’s top prospect and the eldest son of former All-Star Matt Holliday leaned against the back wall of Fenway Park’s visitors dugout, surrounded on all sides by an impenetrable wall of cameras and reporters. The 20-year-old infielder, who has the type of face that is difficult to imagine ever aging, breezed through a lengthy media session like he breezed through the minor leagues: with the steady poise of a man twice his age.