There won’t be any shiny blond locks peeking out the back of Brock Holt’s batting helmet this year.

The Red Sox utility man finally cut his hair.

“It was just time,” he recently told the Herald. “It was long. I got tired of it. I got a haircut on the last day of the season on 2014, so I wanted to grow it out a year. I grew it out a year. Kept it going. I thought I’ll try to grow it through the offseason. But I didn’t want it anymore. I chopped it off. That first shower after getting a haircut, it felt great.”

The Red Sox must be pleased to see the always-approachable 27-year-old still possesses a happy-go-lucky attitude. But there is another thing that’s noticeably different about Holt this year.

It finally seems as though he’s accepted his success.

“Overall, I’m happy with what I’ve been able to do,” Holt said. “I’ve finally gotten a chance to prove myself as a baseball player and show what I can do on the baseball field.”

It’s not that he’s taking it for granted, but after getting Rookie of the Year votes in 2014 and becoming an All-Star in 2015, the undersized utility man no longer appears consumed by the massive chip he’s been carrying on his shoulder since getting just one scholarship offer out of high school and eventually having to force his way through the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as a ninth-round draft pick.

Playing in the shadow of five-tool prospects and 30-home-run hitters has often been his motivation, but Holt has now proven to himself, and the rest of baseball, what he can and can’t do.

He’s not a power hitter. He has six career home runs in more than 1,100 major league plate appearances. So there’s no use in bulking up. He’s planning on coming into spring training at 180 pounds, knowing he’ll likely slim down to 170 pounds late in the year.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to hit (20) homers,” he said.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. By now everybody in New England could list his skill set: Speed, intelligence, feel for the game, ability to make contact, batting eye, situational hitting and, of course, the flexibility to play seven positions at an above-average level.

Wayne Graham, Holt’s coach at Rice (his second stop on the college tour after he began at Navarro College), once said Holt could be an All-Star second baseman.

Holt used to long for his own position, but after two years in a utility role, he has lost that feeling.

“I never thought of it as screwing myself being able to play different positions,” he said. “I never pictured myself playing different positions on a baseball field, but it’s fun for me. You’ll never see me complaining about playing left field for the Red Sox one night and then third base for the Red Sox another night. It’s fun.”

As an added bonus, after longtime Rays utility man Ben Zobrist signed a four-year, $56 million contract with the Cubs this offseason, the utility position is now a lucrative one.

“Ben Zobrist got a nice deal and he deserves it,” Holt said. “He’s busted his butt for how long to become a free agent? And to get paid like he did was pretty cool to see. That’s encouraging, but it’s not something that when they ask me to move around positions that I was thinking, ‘Well now I can’t make as much money.’

“I think every player will tell you it would be nice to know where you’re going to play every day. But for me, moving around has become what I do. That’s why I’ve gotten to stick around and have a job. It’s become pretty valuable for this team. And I see that.”

Holt hit .281 in 2014 and .280 in 2015, providing stability from wherever he was listed in the lineup. He’s stolen 21 bases and been caught just three times in his career, numbers that should beg manager John Farrell to give him the steal sign more often this season. But the area Holt feels like he can most improve is late-season consistency.

In the first half of the season, he’s a career .309 hitter with an .803 OPS. He hits .241 with a .600 OPS after the All-Star break.

“I’m not disappointed,” he said. “But you can always be better.”