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2023 MLB Draft: 2 former Arizona players picked on final day, none from current squad

After seeing four players get selected on Monday, twice as many as all of last year, Arizona did not have any current or future members of its team chosen on the third day of the 2023 MLB Draft.

The only players drafted in rounds 11-20 with connections to the UA were a pair of pitchers, both members of the 2021 College World Series team, who transferred from the program in the past two seasons. Right-hander Chandler Murphy went in the 12th round to the Tampa Bay Rays, the same franchise that took UA righty TJ Nichols in the sixth round on Monday, while lefty Riley Cooper went in the 13th round to the Baltimore Orioles.