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I vehemently disagree with you on so few things, Doc, that I just can't help buy yank your chain on one of those rare occasions that it comes up. :)
Probably a character flaw, I'm thinkin...
But yes, there were People who thought Tui was gonna be a monster.  There were those that thought Clement was as well.  I've always had "Thou shalt not draft a non-Mauer catcher with a top-5 pick" listed as a commandment even if he DOES have the chest of a water-buffalo.  At least with Tui it was a third-round pick, and I don't care about the money we signed him for.
There wasn't a great player to be had in those rounds.  Between where we drafted Tui in the 3rd and the end of the 6th, we could have had Chris Iannetta and sort of solved our catcher problem, somewhat, or grabbed Ben Zobrist to play 2nd base in his late 20s. 
Seriously, it was a bad draft.  We could have had Luke French in the 8th or Carp in the 9th.  Dexter Fowler from the Rockies was there in the 14th.  In the 16th you get to Mark Reynolds, and he's the first guy with more than 2 WAR since Zobrist, I think.
It's a wasteland in those rounds.  I don't mind taking a chance on Tui.  I'm glad we did.  But I guarantee you if Jack had been the GM earlier Tui would have gotten traded while he still had shiny-prospect status.
That's the one thing that really makes me happy about Jack so far - when he decides you won't play for him, you're gone if you can get him anything he wants.  And he's quick about it.  I don't expect any rotting Tuis and Clements under his watch.  It helps to maximize your faulty picks as well as your good ones.
And I want to wring as much our of our farm system as we can.
Pimentel, Morla, Morban, C. Peguero, Mario Martinez...those are all whiff-tastic latin guys with talent.  I'm hoping Castillo and E. Peguero (who will now be EP to distinguish himself from the "Other" Peguero) can be a bit different.
And better.  Better is good.  But it's so early right now that all you can say is, "yep, he has talent."  Whether he can harness it or not is a different matter.
Fingers crossed.
~G