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.

The scouting notes on Ethan read like this:

• He’s a 6-foot-4 powerhouse with a frame that will carry more muscle as he gets older and develops.

• He has a sharp batting eye and can hit with power to all fields.

• There are some concerns about too many swings and misses against high-velocity fastballs. The counterargument is that he tried to do too much when he got pitched around and was fed offspeed pitches on the amateur star circuit last summer. Hitting fastballs won’t be a problem for him, many scouts say.

• Ethan moves well and could be a major league infielder, perhaps even a power-hitting shortstop. Other scouts see him as an outfielder or maybe a first baseman.

• He is seen by many as the top offensive talent in the draft, perhaps with even more potential than Jackson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 draft and now the starting second baseman for the Orioles.

Examining baseball skills is no easy task. Doing it for a high school player, and then projecting what he’ll be like as a big-leaguer two, three or four years down the road is even harder.

Toss in questions about maturity and character, and the equation gets even more complicated. However, in the case of Ethan, the Rockies have no worries about Ethan’s makeup.

“Ethan is definitely at the top of the draft in terms of his talent and the person he is, I will say that,” Marc Gustafson, Colorado’s senior director of scouting operations, said. “And he’s from a special family, that goes without saying. It’s a wonderful family.”

Last September, Ethan sat in the visitors’ dugout at Coors Field before a Rockies-Orioles game in which the entire Holliday clan showed up to watch Jackson play.

“My mom and dad have been amazing,” Ethan said. “They have been so influential. They’ve seen the pressure, they felt the pressure before and they have been in the spotlight. They have helped us a lot. They’ve made it fun.”

Seeing his older brother manage the hype and hurdles of being a top baseball prospect, with a famous baseball father, has also prepared Ethan for his moment.

“I’m so proud of how Jackson has dealt with all of this,” Ethan said. “I saw how he went through all of this a couple of years ago. I was his wingman, and we did everything together, so I saw how he handled it all with all of the eyes on him and how he went about his business.”

Finally, and this is important, Ethan loves baseball. He welcomes the grind that will wear him down in the minors before it builds him up for the big leagues.

“I’ve loved baseball for as long as I can remember,” he said. “Not just because of my dad, and my brother, and all of my family. I love the constant grind of trying to get better every day. I’ve loved getting to know all of the people I’ve met through the years.

“And it’s the little stuff, too. The sounds of the game, the smells of the ballpark, all of that. That’s something you’ve got to love if you’re going to play this game.”

Now the Rockies are on the clock. If Ethan is available to them on Sunday, they have a big decision to make. Perhaps it’s an easy one. Perhaps it’s tough. The bottom line: It must ultimately be a baseball decision.