PHOENIX -- As he was chasing the NL Rookie of the Year Award last season, D-backs outfielder Corbin Carroll wasn’t so much focused on what winning it would mean to him personally.

Instead, he knew that because of the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement between the owners and players, since he was on the roster starting on Opening Day, should he win the award, the D-backs organization would also win by being awarded an extra Draft pick.

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The Prospect Promotion Incentive Pick, which the D-backs got for Carroll and the Orioles received for shortstop Gunnar Henderson winning the AL Rookie of the Year Award, came right after the first round, with the D-backs getting the 31st overall pick and the Orioles the 32nd.

“That’s probably what brought the most weight to chasing something like this for me,” Carroll said the night he won the award. “Not for the personal fame or attention, but for the ability to benefit my team. I’m hoping to be here long enough where that Draft pick is hopefully a star player on the Diamondbacks right alongside of me. And just to be able to reward, in my mind, the front office’s belief in me this year, is really special.”

The D-backs used the No. 31 overall pick Sunday night to select University of Kentucky outfielder Ryan Waldschmidt.

“I knew that the pick came from somewhere in the compensation pick area,” Waldschmidt said. “And the more I looked into it the more I realized it came from Corbin Carroll’s Rookie of the Year Award. It’s just super awesome to be a part of that. Being an outfielder, that’s someone I’ve always looked at, tried to model my game from and pick up from things from him.”

The way the D-backs handled Carroll showed that they had their eye on the pick for a while.

When Carroll was called up in August of 2022, the D-backs were careful not to have him exceed the rookie limits so that he would still hold his rookie status heading into 2023.

Carroll, of course, did the rest by putting together a dominant rookie campaign, winning the award in a unanimous vote. It was the first time a D-backs player had won the award.

“What we saw with Corbin Carroll [as a rookie], I’ve said this before, a million times: it's not normal,” D-backs GM Mike Hazen said.

Hazen called the pick “incredibly valuable” for a team like the D-backs, who given their market size need to have a farm system that regularly churns out talent.

Between the Prospect Promotion Incentive Pick and a Competitive Balance Round A pick, the D-backs had three of the first 35 picks in Sunday night’s first day of the Draft.

While teams cannot trade the Prospect Promotion Incentive Pick, they can trade Competitive Balance picks, and Hazen said that because the team had that extra pick, he had teams calling and asking about whether the D-backs would be willing to trade it -- which they weren’t.

Whether Carroll and Waldschmidt end up playing together remains to be seen, but if Waldschmidt ends up helping the D-backs in the future, they’ll have Carroll to thank for it.