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This is essentially what I've been thinking for the last decade or so while I've been watching prospects...I think this is also why the Mariners hated prospects who struck out and tried to assemble a whole team of low-K hitters...I think they THOUGHT it ws the low-risk way to get some MLB production quickly from middling prospects (which tend to be undervalued in the market).  Of course...it means you never develop stars and most of those slap hitters who never K are untrainable (they don't have any way to get better) so WYSIWYG.  Hence the lack of impact MLB production from the farm (thanks to a bunch of free-swinging hitters with no projectable upside due to no baseball intelligence).
You can see that Z is not at all the same kind of talent evaluator...his prospects are going to be interesting to watch from a philosophical standpoint.