High decide Jackson Holliday is amongst prospects for All-Star Futures Game

NEW YORK — Baltimore infielder Jackson Holliday, the highest decide in final 12 months’s newbie draft and a son of former All-Star Matt Holliday, was amongst 14 first-round picks chosen for the All-Star Futures Game at Seattle on July 8.

Holliday is hitting .325 with 14 doubles, seven homers, 47 RBIs and 20 stolen bases in 63 video games this 12 months for Class A Delmarva and High A Aberdeen.

He was joined on the AL roster introduced Tuesday by Baltimore outfielder Heston Kjerstad (second general in 2020), Boston infielders Marcelo Mayer (fourth in 2021) and Nick Yorke (seventeenth in 2020), Seattle catcher Harry Ford (twelfth in 2021), New York Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones (twenty fifth in 2022), Oakland catcher Tyler Soderstrom (twenty sixth in 2020) and Houston outfielder Drew Gilbert (twenty eighth in 2022).

NL first rounders included Arizona infielder Jordan Lawlar (sixth in 2021), Washington infielder Brady House (eleventh in 2021), Philadelphia right-hander Mick Abel (fifteenth in 2020) and outfielder Justin Crawford (seventeenth in 2022), Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete-Crow Armstrong (nineteenth in 2020) and San Diego infielder Jackson Merrill (twenty seventh in 2021).

Holliday is MLB’s top-rated prospect and is joined on the rosters by Milwaukee outfielder Jackson Chourio, the No. 3 prospect. Cincinnati infielder Elly De La Cruz, the No. 2 prospect, made his massive league debut on June 6 and is hitting .333 with three homers, 10 RBIs and eight stolen bases in 17 video games.

Twenty-eight of the highest 100 prospects are on the rosters. Pitchers among the many high 100 embrace San Francisco left-hander Kyle Harrison, Abel, Texas right-hander Owen White, St. Louis right-hander Tink Hence and Milwaukee right-hander Jacob Misiorowski.

Four gamers are from the Dominican Republic, three from Cuba, two from Venezuela and one every from the Bahamas and the Netherlands.