Chris Stratton and Mac Williamson were both 2012 draftees (rounds 1 and 3, respectively) and after all the justified hand wringing over the years about how the Giants have done themselves a disservice by not developing talent at the minor league level, we have two strong outlier examples. It only took six years... but nobody said baseball player development was precision science.
I would have preferred Marcus Stroman, just like I preferred Kyle Drabek to Tim Lincecum, Beau Mills to Madison Bumgarner, and Justin Smoak to Buster Posey.
A couple of years later, before the 2014 draft, Grant did a review of this same 2012 draft:
Mac Williamson is out for the season following Tommy John, but he’s still one of the Giants’ best (only) hitting prospects.