Baseball's No. 1 Overall Prospect Has the Ultimate Living Situation and Perfect Setup

Baltimore Orioles' infield prospect Jackson Holliday gave the fans a little tour of his living situation on Tuesday, and woah, it's safe to say he is living the ultimate dream.
Baseball's No. 1 Overall Prospect Has the Ultimate Living Situation and Perfect Setup
Baseball's No. 1 Overall Prospect Has the Ultimate Living Situation and Perfect Setup

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Baseball's No. 1 overall prospect Jackson Holliday has the ultimate crib.

The Baltimore Orioles' infield prospect showed off his living situation in a video posted by the @MLB "X" account on Tuesday, and let's just say it didn't disappoint.

Holliday, who is the son of former All-Star Matt Holliday said that his family's land has been developed into a house, apartment, sport court, wiffleball field, pickleball court and batting cage.

Yeah, that'll work...

Now, just because he has access to great amenities doesn't mean that that's how he got to be so good, but it certainly doesn't hurt, either.

Holliday hit .323 this year, finishing the year at Triple-A. He hit 12 home runs, drove in 75 runs and also stole 24 bases. He's fighting to make the O's Opening Day roster right out of spring training at just 20 years old.

The following comes from his MLB.com prospect profile:

The combination of nature and nurture certainly come into play, with growing up around the game clearly helping Holliday’s overall skillset. He has an extremely advanced approach at the plate, and he showed it off by walking more than twice as much as he struck out during his debut last summer. He has a simple left-handed stroke he got back to after his swing got a little long last summer, allowing him make more hard contact than ever, with plenty of power coming organically from his swing.

With strength he added before his senior year, and with more to come, Holliday has also gotten faster and is a consistently plus runner. There’s an up arrow next to his arm strength as well and that, along with his improved quickness, means he should be able to play shortstop for a long time.

His father played 15 years in the big leagues with the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and New York Yankees. He spent part of eight years in St. Louis, six with Colorado, one with New York and part of one with Oakland. He was a seven-time All-Star selection, received MVP votes in eight different seasons and finished fifth in the 2004 National League Rookie of the Year voting.

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Brady Farkas
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Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.