This sums it right up. JP Riccardi was an idiot at drafting and AA was into drafting high ceiling pitchers, so its harder to develop hitters when you're not drafting them properly. Ryan Schimpf is having a solid season so far and he's a Jays org player. Other than that who were the high potential offensive prospects that we've had over the past 5 or so years? d'Arnaud? Gose? Wallace? really nobodys, but we've been stacked with pitching. Tellez is ripping s*** up so maybe he's the next one.
I also kind of agree with Dinger's point. There's a difference homegrown vs. development. Home-grown are IFAs like Vlad and drafted players like Tellez. Developed players include Bautista and EE who we fixed, and if it werent for the Jays, would probably be kicking rocks up and down the AAAA train. Donaldson and Travis don't count as developed because they came here with their skill-sets and they flourished here, but would have done the same in their previous teams.