The Arizona Diamondbacks have announced the signing of 23 of their 52 picks from the 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Thursday. That’s a staggering number of picks that signed 24 hours after the completion of the draft. More signings are expected tomorrow and Saturday.

Here is the list:

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS’ 2011 SIGNED DRAFT PICKS

Round   Player/Pos./School
4              Evan Marshall/RHP/Kansas State
8              Jesse Darrah/RHP/Fresno Pacific
9              John Leonard/INF/Connellsville Area Senior HS, Connellsville, Penn.
12            Joshua Parr/INF/Illinois
13            John Pedrotty/LHP/Holy Cross
18            Taylor Siemens/LHP/California Baptist
19            Danny Pulfer/INF/Oregon
21            Jonathan Griffin/INF/Central Florida
22            Garrett Weber/INF/Fresno State
23            Ryan Court/INF/Illinois State
26            Austin Platt/RHP/No School (IMG Baseball Academy)
28            Matt Sample/RHP/Rogers State
30            Dexter Price/RHP/South Carolina-Beaufort
31             Matt Jensen/INF/Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
35           Ross Gerdeman/RHP/Bowling Green
36           Bryan Henry/C/Keystone College
37            Elroy Urbina/LHP/Incarnate Word
38            Kerry Jenkins/OF/San Jose State
39            Chris Ellison/OF/Oklahoma
40           Seth Simmons/RHP/East Carolina
43            Alex Capaul/RHP/Hawai’i
44           Derek Luciano/INF/Central Florida
48           Raymond Hernandez/RHP/Cal State Fullerton