Rockies Reacts Survey Results: Ethan Holliday is the overwhelming favorite for Rockies fans

The son of former Rockies’ star Matt Holliday could be the next to put on purple pinstripes

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in Colorado Rockies fans and fans across the country.

It’s morning, everyone! Today’s the day! The sun is shining, the tank is clean, and it’s MLB Draft day!

The Colorado Rockies are picking fourth-overall, and they have a few options for who they might take. It’s an especially important draft, considering they seem to be finally embracing an actual rebuild (though they’re still not coming out to say it). We asked you who you thought they’d take, and you answered.

The overwhelming majority of you believe that Ethan Holliday — shortstop from Stillwater High School in Oklahoma and son of former Rockies star Matt Holliday — will be the one that the Rockies take in the first round.

If Holliday is unavailable, then Liam Doyle — left-handed pitcher from the University of Tennessee, a favorite spot of the Rockies — was the next-highest predicted.

The Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Angels and Seattle Mariners pick ahead of the Rockies this afternoon. The Draft starts at 4pm MT.

Will you watch one or the other, or both? Who are you hoping the Rockies will take? Let us know!

Rockies Journal: Drafting Ethan Holliday is a baseball decision, not a sentimental journey

Will Matt Holliday’s son still be available with the No. 4 pick?

Ethan Holliday, son of Matt, brother of Jackson, could soon be a member of the Rockies.

If Ethan is still available when the fourth overall pick rolls around Sunday night, chances are good that the Rockies will take him. That’s what all the national draftniks are saying.

There is a chance Ethan will be drafted first overall by the Nationals, but if he isn’t, the experts say his baseball destiny lies with the Rockies, the same organization that drafted his father in the seventh round in 1998 and saw him become the star of “Rocktober.”

That would be a feel-good story, for sure. And no team needs good feelings or a star attraction more than the Rockies. There would be a certain baseball romance to Ethan playing at Coors Field, where his dad was a three-time All-Star and the best player on the 2007 dream team that remains the only Rockies team to make it to the World Series.

But is 18-year-old Ethan, a recent graduate of Stillwater High School in Oklahoma, the right pick for the Rockies? If he genuinely is the very best player on the board when the Rockies pick, then he absolutely is the choice. The Rockies, after all, have been stuck in an offensive funk for four seasons running, and they need firepower.

However, the Rockies must set aside sentimentality. That won’t be easy.

Make no mistake, Ethan is an extraordinary talent. Matt told me last year that his son will have even more power than Matt did during his 15-year career, which produced 316 career home runs and four more All-Star nods with the Cardinals.