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Agreeing with Ron Fairly makes me feel dumber.
Gonzalez: 2480 minor league ABs plus 150ish pro before he became decent.
Chipper: 1700 minor league ABs.
Tino: 1400 minor league ABs, plus 200-700 pro (depending on your definition of decent).
Teixeira: 300 in the minors, then to the pros where he was immediately decent.  Also, was the only one who was a college player.
Smoak: College + 750 minor league and pro ABs.
Justin is not really trailing any of those guys yet, except maybe Tex, and that's pretty forgivable.
*sighs, and puts on dunce cap to side with Fairly*
By that pace (and 1500 is a standard set of professional ABs to give a hitter in order to properly judge em numbers-wise) we've got another year and a half with Smoak before we may know what we've got in Smoak.  Hopefully he can get ahead of the curve.
~G