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Is that he doesn't seem to have hard-and-fast rules for his draft and minor-league acquisitions.  He drafts and trades for short pitchers (Shipers, several bullpen arms in the low minors, Robles, Saito, etc), or tall ones (Beavan and the rest of the giant crew).  He gets hard throwing fireballers and control artists.  His bats come from high-school or college, wherever he can get the most value, and he's not above taking a bat first and trying to figure out the glove - but he also traded for Gutierrez and others specifically for the glove.
Jack wants a quality player, and he doesn't care what kind of mold that player comes in.
My least favorite thing about Jack so far is his complete inability to hit on ANY down-side veterans to help us out, with the exception of one year of Branyan.  His major-league veterans have been bombs. 
That means we need to build a young team, apparently, and I'm okay with that...but it's still frustrating.
And mal, if we get Walker and Paxton and others knocking on the door then we either trade one of the guys we already have in the starting rotation, or we trade one of the kids.  We've already shown we can always use more bats.