UAB catcher Nick Hollifield was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 14th round of the MLB Draft on Monday with the 411th overall pick.<\/p>\n
He becomes the third Blazer drafted on Monday, joining outfielder Logan Braunschweig<\/a> and pitcher Colin Daniel<\/a>, who were both drafted by the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n A 5-foot-11, 190-pound catcher, Hollifield appeared in 52 games for UAB last season and started all but one of those games. He batted .266 with five home runs, 13 doubles and 30 RBIs with a .376 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n He finished with a .995 fielding percentage with 371 putouts, catching 10 runners stealing as a junior. He was also named to the midseason watchlist for the Buster Posey Award.<\/p>\n Hollifield played in 111 games with 98 starts during his UAB career with a career .254 batting average and .375 on-base percentage, logging 722 putouts.<\/p>\n A native of Hoschton, Ga., and graduate of Mill Creek High School, he was a member of the Conference USA all-freshman team in 2023 with a perfect fielding 1.000 percentage in 23 games played.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UAB catcher Nick Hollifield was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 14th round of the MLB Draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[2514,5,4,415,414,71,4222,2515],"class_list":{"0":"post-176608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-2514","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nationals","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-nationals","14":"tag-washingtonnationals","15":"tag-wspix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114854057094949994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}