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I was disappointed in Pimentel's ability to take a walk this year as well - though his swing is still startlingly sweet for as young of a kid as he's supposed to be - but very, very few latin teenagers come over here and post a good # of walks in their first years.  Batting eye is not a skill they work on.  It's more "See ball, hit ball."  Or at least swing.  The phrase "nobody ever walked off the island" applies.  They have to hit to get noticed. 
Teaching Pimentel not to swing at everything is a key.  He, Morla, Morban, Castillo and the Pegueros represent a significant investment in money and hope.
Mario Martinez is never going to be a big-league hitter, and I don't believe Triunfel is gonna be a presence either, but one of the guys listed above needs to become one.  We've invested around 10 million dollars in the guys in this post.  At some point it needs to pay off.
Luckily we have a bunch of other hitters (like Jones, who I forgot to mention, and all the other names tossed around) that should be able to keep the pipeline pumping.
And most of our other good hitting prospects are NOT the free-swinging, no-walk hitters of years past, which allows this investment some time to mature.
Hopefully at least one of em is the right one, but it's certainly nice to know that we had several excellent prospects in a different mold as well.
I'm lookin at you, Choi...
~G