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Maybe a better way to view "favor ability" would be "favoring current performance". Scouting Directors who favor ability like to see players who are doing well here and now. While not entirely dismissive of potential, they'd rather go with a player that's showing solid power right now rather than one might hit 40 home runs someday... if he develops.
Conversely, another way of looking at "favor tools" is to think of it as "favoring potential". Scoting Directors who favor tools will be more forgiving of a player who is currently struggling if they feel he has the potential to be a stud at some point in the future. That doesn't mean that current performance doesn't factor in at all, but generally speaking they're more apt to cut the player slack if they feel he has a high ceiling with his potential.
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