Diamondbacks Top 30 Prospects: Spring 2023
With the dust finally settling on this off-season, there wasn't a lot of turnover with the organization's top prospects. This preseason list factors in how these prospects closed out the 2022 season, the Arizona Fall League, and what type of potential impact they could have in the 2023 season.
The D-backs feature a very interesting rookie class, led by consensus Top 5 prospect Corbin Carroll, that will need to make a significant impact in order for the team to be successful in the future. The strengths of the system include three major impact hitters and a string of hard-throwers that could be the future of their starting rotation in their Top 10. Arizona will need to these players to lay the foundation for the next contender in 2023.
Without further ado, here are the Top 30 prospects entering this Spring with scouting reports and what to expect for 2023.
- OF Corbin Carroll
- RHP Brandon Pfaadt
- SS Jordan Lawlar
- OF Druw Jones
- RHP Drey Jameson
- RHP Ryne Nelson
- LHP Blake Walston
- RHP Slade Cecconi
- RHP Landon Sims
- 1B Ivan Melendez
- LHP Yu-Min Lin
- 3B/1B Deyvison De Los Santos
- 3B/OF A.J. Vukovich
- OF Dominic Fletcher
- RHP Bryce Jarvis
- OF Dominic Canzone
- INF Blaze Alexander
- INF Manuel Peña
- OF Wilderd Patiño
- RHP Carlos Vargas
- INF Ruben Santana
- RHP Joe Elbis
- LHP Nate Savino
- OF Jorge Barrosa
- INF Ryan Bliss
- 2B/OF Tim Tawa
- RHP Conor Grammes
- RHP Justin Martinez
- INF Cristofer Torin
- INF Andrew Pintar
Notes
Gabriel Moreno and Tommy Henry are no longer rookie eligible, with 47 and 61 days spent in the big leagues in 2022 and have been taken off the list. Moreno would have slotted in at the No. 3 spot between Pfaadt and Lawlar and Henry at the No. 12 spot after Ivan Melendez if both were on the list.
Taking Henry's place on the Top 30 list is infielder prospect Cristofer Torin at the No. 29 spot. Torin is a middle infielder from the 2022 international free agent class. He hit .333/.465/.434 in the Dominican Summer League in his Age 17 season. At 5'10" 155, there isn't much projectable long term power, but it will be interesting to see how the hit tool develops when he comes state-side. He'll likely spend most of the 2023 season in Extended Spring Training then at the Complex League, with a promotion to Low-A Visalia if he excels. I project him to develop into a bottom of the order hitter who will need to play solid defense to stick in the big leagues.
Kristian Robinson is not on the Top 30 list, as he hasn't played any games with an affiliate since the 2019 season. He's currently serving out his sentence for felony assault, which he plead guilty to in hopes to get the charge reduced to a misdemeanor. The felony has prevented Robinson from participating in games with any of the organization's minor league affiliates, so he's been working out at the team's Spring Training Complex over that time. It's going to be difficult to make up for three years of lost reps, but the hope is the former top prospect can get back on track in 2023 and make a run at the big leagues in 2024.
The 2024 list could look drastically different, with Carroll, Pfaadt, Jameson, and Ryne Nelson likely to graduate and Lawlar potentially exhausting his rookie eligibility as well. There will also likely be two or three new names on the list coming from the team's 2023 draft class. It will be interesting to see if the organization can maintain a top farm system with so many high profile graduations looming.
