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Zduriencik had an interesting saber quote a while back:  'our analysis indicated that his split was the best swing-and-miss pitch in baseball' or something very similar to that.  They thought they had a budding superstar in League, I think.  Ironic that their emphasis on makeup and tools scouting let them down on that one.  As Craig Wright said, if you bat 60% you lead the field.
I also think they were a bit TOO enthused about flushing Morrow - he wasn't exactly dealing drugs in the clubhouse - and their enthusiasm for powerflushing Doug Fister is one of the great sports mysteries that I've seen.  
They obviously thought they were selling WAY high on Fister, thought he would shortly be exposed as a mediocrity.  The comment 'he wasn't one of our best five going forward,' referring to a SP on Fister's measly wages and considering that Erikkk was already gone and Vargas had been shopped... they had Felix, Pineda, and an empty rotation and "Fister wasn't one of our best five."  Read that as "We just don't see that much of a future for him as a starting pitcher in the big leagues."  They just flat thought that Fister wasn't nearly as good as he'd looked.  Am sure they were horrified when he went to Detroit and pitched like Christy Mathewson.
You take the good with the bad.  But the Fister saga sticks in my craw the way the Randy Johnson one did.