Since they had two picks on the opening round of the 2011 draft, the Arizona Diamondbacks have since selected five pitchers out of their nine opening round selections since that time.
Of the nine, two remain on the club’s 40-man roster and after Branden Shipley made his major league debut Monday night in Milwaukee, the Arizona Diamondbacks have emptied the cartridge of their drafted pitching ammunition.
With no more highly-regarded, drafted talent remaining in the organization, decision-makers of the Arizona Diamondbacks appear at cross-roads. Having traded former first round pitchers Trevor Bauer (2011), Aaron Blair (2013) and Touki Toussaint (2014), now the development period for Shipley and Archie Bradley, drafted in 2011, commenced.