Matthew Thomas Holliday is an American professional baseball left fielder. He is the outfielding and hitting coach at Oklahoma State University.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004 to 2018 for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Yankees.
Who is Matt Holliday married to?
Matt Holliday is married to a gorgeous lady known as Leslee.
Holliday and Leslee married on December 30, 2000.
The pair met on a blind date in 1999 in Stillwater during the baseball offseason when Matt had returned home from his first professional season following his selection by the Rockies in the MLB draft and Leslee was an undergraduate at OSU−Stillwater.
At the time, Matt’s best friend was dating a friend of Leslee’s, and they wanted to do a double date, so her friend asked if she would go with Matt…..and the rest, is history!
The Hollidays currently reside in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Jupiter, Florida, and have four children.
They have three sons, Jackson (born December 4, 2003), Ethan (b. February 23, 2007), and Reed (b. July 24, 2013) and a daughter, Gracyn (b. November 7, 2009).
Matt Holliday Distinctions
He was a World Series champion in 2011 with the Cardinals, and through prodigious hitting contributions, played a key role in seven postseasons, including the Rockies’ first-ever World Series appearance in 2007 and Cardinals’ playoff success in the 2010s.
Holliday’s 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, and batting over .300 eight times.