The Kansas City Royals selected Arizona pitcher Hunter Alberini 338th overall in the 11th round of the 2025 Major League Baseball draft on Monday. Alberini was the sixth Arizona player selected in the 2025 MLB Draft, surpassing the four Wildcats chosen in 2024.
Alberini had one win and no losses with a 3.48 earned run average in 18 appearances, pitching 20.2 innings, allowing 27 hits, seven walks and two hit batters with 33 strikeouts in his lone season with Arizona in 2025. In 99 batters faced, Alberini allowed only three doubles and a home run as the only extra-base hits against him.