Matt Holliday
Name of award Times Dates
All-American , high school baseball 1 1997
All-American , high school football 1 1997
Baseball America All-Rookie team 1 2004
BBWAA St. Louis chapter Darryl Kile Good Guy Award 1 2010
Carolina League Player of the Month 1 June 2001
Colorado Rockies Player of the Year 2 2005 , 2007
Gatorade Player of the Year , Regional level , baseball 1 1997
Gatorade Player of the Year , Regional level , football 1 1997
Major League Baseball All-Star 7 2006 − 08 , 2010 − 12 , 2015
Major League Baseball Home Run Derby participant 3 2007 , 2010 , 2011
Missouri Athletic Club Sports Personality of the Year 1 2012
National League Championship Series MVP Award 1 2007
National League Player of the Month 1 September 2007
National League Player of the Week 7 July 31 , 2005 September 24 , 2006 July 29 , 2007 September 16 , 2007 April 13 , 2008 June 20 , 2010 September 2 , 2014
Silver Slugger Award at outfield 4 2006−08 , 2010
Southern League Hitter of the Week 2 June 27 and July 18 , 2002
Southern League Mid-Season All-Star 1 2002
Sporting News All-Star team 2 2007 , 2010
Topps All-Star Rookie team 1 2004
Awards and accomplishments -- Championships , awards , and honors
Championships earned or shared Title Times Dates Ref Arizona League champion 1 1998 National League batting champion 1 2007 National League champion 3 2007 , 2011 , 2013 World Series champion 1 2011
Matthew Thomas Holliday (born January 15, 1980) is an American former professional left fielder and first baseman. He is the outfielding and hitting coach at Oklahoma State University. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Yankees. A World Series champion in 2011 with the Cardinals, Holliday, through prodigious hitting contributions, has played a key role in seven postseasons, including the Rockies' first-ever World Series appearance in 2007 and Cardinals' playoff success in the 2010s. His distinctions include a National League (NL) batting championship, the 2007 NL Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award (NLCS MVP), seven All-Star selections, and four Silver Slugger Awards. Other career accomplishments include 300 home runs, more than 2,000 hits, 100 stolen bases, and batting over .300 eight times. The Colorado Rockies selected Holliday in the seventh round of the 1998 MLB draft from high school in Oklahoma, where he also starred as a highly touted quarterback prospect. He debuted in MLB in 2004, becoming the Rockies' starting left fielder and a middle of the lineup presence. In 2006, he became the 19th player ever to reach 195 hits, 30 home runs, 45 doubles, 115 runs and 110 runs batted in (RBI) in one season. The next season, he won the NL batting title, September National League Player of the Month honors and NLCS MVP as the Rockies won 21 of 22 games at the end of the regular season and in the playoffs en route to their first World Series appearance. In the first of four consecutive NLCS appearances starting in 2011, he batted .435 with a .652 slugging percentage in the 2011 NLCS on his way to winning his first World Series ring with the Cardinals. In 2014, he became just the fifth player in MLB history to amass nine consecutive seasons of at least 20 home runs, 30 doubles, 75 RBI and 80 runs scored each season.