The Diamondbacks will make not one, but two selections in the compensation round. The first pick in that round. The first one will be prep righty Brennan Malone. Malone has ideal size at 6’4” 210 and an aggressive fastball that sits upper 90s with an underdeveloped secondary mix of a curveball, slider, and change-up. Malone was a name that popped up as well at 26. Malone is also not the first IMG Academy pick, as the Dbacks took Blaze Alexander and Levi Kelly in last year’s draft.
Baseball America:
Malone initially blew up on scouts’ radars as an underclassman and has long been thought of as one of the most talented pitchers in the 2019 draft class.