Colorado on Sunday selected 18-year-old Ethan Holliday — son of former Rockies star outfielder Matt Holliday — with the No. 4 overall pick in the MLB draft. Holliday, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound shortshop with power, was hardly a surprise pick entering the draft, as national draftniks universally had him coming to the team who drafted his father.

Holliday will join his brother, Jackson, in MLB — and will do so with the same team that selected his father, Matt, in the seventh round of the 1998 draft.

Ethan Holliday was almost 8 months old when his father, Matt Holliday, and his big brother, Jackson – then 4 years old but aware – were on the infield at Coors Field celebrating the Rockies’ qualification for the 2007 World Series.