# List of Arizona Diamondbacks first-round draft picks

The Arizona Diamondbacks are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Diamondbacks compete in the National League West division. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks. Since the franchise first participated in the draft in 1996, the Diamondbacks have selected 28 players in the first round. The First-Year Player Draft is unrelated to the 1997 expansion draft in which the Diamondbacks filled their roster.
Of the 28 players picked in the first round by the Diamondbacks, 15 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 11 of these have been right-handed, while 4 have been left-handed. Five players taken in the first round have been shortstops; additionally, two players have been selected at each of first base, third base, catcher, and the outfield. No second baseman has been selected in the first round by the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks have drafted 16 players out of college, and 10 out of high school. Arizona has drafted seven players out of high schools or colleges in the state of California, with two being taken from each of Florida, Georgia, and their home state of Arizona.
The Diamondbacks' 2003 selection—Carlos Quentin, who was then playing with the Chicago White Sox—won the 2008 Silver Slugger Award as one of the three best offensive outfielders in the American League. The franchise has held the first-overall pick once, in 2005, when they selected Justin Upton. The Diamondbacks have received twelve compensatory picks, including nine selections made in the supplemental round of the draft since the franchise's first draft in 1996. These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the previous off-season, or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year.

## Key

| Year | Links to an article about that year's Major League Baseball Draft |
| Position | Indicates the secondary/collegiate position at which the player was drafted, rather than the professional position the player may have gone on to play |
| Pick | Indicates the number of the pick |
| * | Player did not sign with the Diamondbacks |
| § | Indicates a supplemental pick |

## Picks

| Year | Name | Position | School (location) | Pick |
| 1996 | Nick Bierbrodt | Left-handed pitcher | Millikan High School (Long Beach, California) | 30 |
| 1997 | Jack Cust | First baseman | Immaculata High School (Somerville, New Jersey) | 30 |
| 1998 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 1999 | Corey Myers | Shortstop | Desert Vista High School (Phoenix, Arizona) | 4 |
| 1999 | Casey Daigle | Right-handed pitcher | Sulphur High School (Sulphur, Louisiana) | 31§ |
| 2000 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 2001 | Jason Bulger | Right-handed pitcher | Valdosta State University (Valdosta, Georgia) | 22 |
| 2002 | Sergio Santos | Shortstop | Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana, California) | 27 |
| 2003 | Conor Jackson | First baseman | University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California) | 19 |
| 2003 | Carlos Quentin | Outfielder | Stanford University (Stanford, California) | 29 |
| 2004 | Stephen Drew | Shortstop | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) | 15 |
| 2005 | Justin Upton | Shortstop | Great Bridge High School (Chesapeake, Virginia) | 1 |
| 2005 | Matt Torra | Right-handed pitcher | University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts) | 31§ |
| 2006 | Max Scherzer | Right-handed pitcher | University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) | 11 |
| 2006 | Brooks Brown | Right-handed pitcher | University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia) | 34§ |
| 2007 | Jarrod Parker | Right-handed pitcher | Norwell High School (Ossian, Indiana) | 9 |
| 2007 | Wes Roemer | Right-handed pitcher | California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, California) | 50§ |
| 2007 | Ed Easley | Catcher | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) | 61§ |
| 2008 | Daniel Schlereth | Left-handed pitcher | University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) | 26 |
| 2008 | Wade Miley | Left-handed pitcher | Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond, Louisiana) | 43§ |
| 2009 | Robert Borchering | Third baseman | Bishop Verot High School (Fort Myers, Florida) | 16 |
| 2009 | A.J. Pollock | Outfielder | University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana) | 17 |
| 2009 | Matthew Davidson | Third baseman | Yucaipa High School (Yucaipa, California) | 35§ |
| 2009 | Chris Owings | Shortstop | Gilbert High School (Gilbert, South Carolina) | 41§ |
| 2009 | Michael Belfiore | Left-handed pitcher | Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) | 45§ |
| 2010 | Barret Loux* | Right-handed pitcher | Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) | 6 |
| 2011 | Trevor Bauer | Right-handed pitcher | University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) | 3 |
| 2011 | Archie Bradley | Right-handed pitcher | Broken Arrow Senior High (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) | 7 |
| 2012 | Stryker Trahan | Catcher | Acadiana High School (Lafayette, Louisiana) | 26 |
| 2013 | Braden Shipley | Right-handed pitcher | University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) | 15 |
| 2014 | Touki Toussaint | Right-handed pitcher | Coral Springs Christian Academy (Coral Springs, Florida) | 16 |
| 2015 | Dansby Swanson | Shortstop | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) | 1 |
| 2016 | Anfernee Grier | Outfielder | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) | 39 |
| 2017 | Pavin Smith | First Baseman | University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) | 7 |
| 2018 | Matt McLain* | Second Baseman | Beckman High School (Irvine, California) | 25 |
| 2019 | Corbin Carroll | Outfielder | Lakeside School (Seattle, Washington) | 16 |
| 2019 | Blake Walston | Left-handed Pitcher | New Hanover High School (Wilmington, North Carolina) | 26 |
| 2020 | Bryce Jarvis | Right-handed pitcher | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) | 18 |
| 2021 | Jordan Lawlar | Shortstop | Dallas Jesuit College Prep (Dallas, Texas) | 6 |
| 2022 | Druw Jones | Outfielder | Wesleyan School (Peachtree Corners, Georgia) | 2 |
| 2022 | Landon Sims | Right-Handed pitcher | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) | 34 |
| 2023 | Tommy Troy | Shortstop | Stanford University (Stanford, California) | 12 |
| 2024 | Slade Caldwell | Outfielder | Valley View High School (Jonesboro, Arkansas) | 29 |