SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- D-backs prospect Corbin Carroll draws rave reviews from the organization not just for his work on the field, but also for the way he studies and thinks about the game of baseball.

One thing not on Carroll's mind these days as he participates in the D-backs' early Minor League camp is his right (non-throwing) shoulder, which he injured while hitting a home run last May. Carroll sustained a posterior capsular avulsion and a labrum tear, which required surgery and kept him off the field for the rest of the season.

Still, the D-backs' No. 1 pick (16th overall) out of high school in the 2019 MLB Draft spent plenty of time around the game. He rehabbed at the team's Salt River Fields complex, while also sitting behind home plate at Chase Field during a number of home games, picking the brains of baseball scouts.

Carroll began his swing progression last October and is now a full go during drills.

"Feeling really good," Carroll said. "Just great to be back out there. Great to have that new energy of all the guys around here again. Got lonely here [at Salt River]."

Carroll, who is ranked as the organization's No. 2 prospect by MLB Pipeline, is hoping for his first full professional campaign in 2022.

The 21-year-old got in part of a season after signing in 2019, spent '20 at the team's alternate training site and got into just seven games for High-A Hillsboro last year before the season-ending shoulder injury.

"There's no thoughts of the shoulder anymore," he said. "And that was a really cool realization of, 'You know, it's not so much swinging with the purpose of building up volume and seeing how the shoulder reacts.' It's more, like, mechanical stuff. Kind of just feel stuff like that at this point. The second ball I put in play during my first live BP was 111 mph [off the bat]. I've got no concerns about there being something missing that was there before or anything like that."

One thing Carroll has had to adjust to is a change in his mechanics at the plate.

The shoulder injury happened on the follow-through of his swing, and as a way of trying to avoid anything like that in the future, he has switched to having both hands on the bat during his follow-through, as opposed to releasing one hand.

It's a change similar to the one the Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. made last year after experiencing issues with his left shoulder during the follow-through of his swings.

"I love it," Carroll said. "I think it forces my direction to be better. And so even if I do go back to a one-handed swing, I think I'll be better for it. But I'm just noticing, you know, I think maybe even [being] a little bit more balanced in the swing, as well. I don't know how much of the swing path is really influenced by the finish, right? Because it’s occurring after contact. So I've just tried not to get too wrapped up in it and sort of let the results of these first [live sessions] kind of speak for itself. If Fernando Tatis can learn how to swing two hands in a week, I can do it in a year."

After the COVID-19 shutdown of the Minor Leagues in 2020 and last year's injury-limited season, Carroll is hopeful that '22 will finally be his first normal professional season.

Still, true to his nature, he's thankful for what the experiences have taught him and he feels lucky that in 2020 he got to face top-notch pitching at the alternate site, which he might not have seen nearly as often in a regular Class A season.

"It's felt a little different every year," Carroll said. "But I'm always someone who's very process-oriented, and at the end of the day, I think I'm going to be better for having faced all these challenges."