Chone Smith points out that the two pitchers picked around Nick Swisher were World Series game 1 starters Scott Kazmir and Cole Hamels. Those picks were panned as wasted in the book Moneyball. As Tom Tango points out:

Intentionally never drafting a high school pitcher in the first round is as foolish as intentionally never sac bunting. If you have 1000 American 18 year olds on one hand, and 1000 Canadian 18 year olds on the other hand, you are naturally NOT going to select 15 Americans and 15 Canadians in the first round. But, is it possible that the correct balance is 29 and 1?

Or, in this case, 28 and 2. Just in case you forgot, it was the Mets who drafted Scott Kazmir and turned him into Victor Zambrano. At least Beane got something when he traded Swisher.

Update: Related item here. Hamels and Kazmir never faced each other in a game, but were well aware of each other before they were drafted.