I'll assume that was not a question.

If I know I'm not going to have a very good team this year, should I promote Ernest Cooper to get him some BL experience or let him grow a little more in AAA?

Nothing about him says "PUT ME IN THE BIGS!!!"   If you're just friggin' awful and he's a top 4 pitcher on your team, you might have to put him in the bigs just to avoid the calls of "tanker".    If not, I'd probably have him in the minors.

Could a guy like this hang in the majors?  Hardball Dynasty – Fantasy Baseball Sim Games - Player Profile: Jerome Hill    

He could.  I don't know why you'd want him to.   Hitting will be league average, maybe slightly lower.  And he can't field anything but 1B/COF(barely).     He's got to do something better to justify a BL spot.

Dmurph's rankings: Do you agree?

I like how he ranked it personally, although maybe a larger sample size would have been nice.

How about some pitching minimums?

Since the worlds I commish are 1 and 6, it would be hard for me to disagree.   Although, as usual, the same worlds are at the top.   No matter the system, it's always the same.

There isn't.  But, for the most part, it starts with splits.   There are exceptions but 40ish splits generally don't produce good hitting numbers regardless of the rest of them.   Contact and speed are good matches as are power/eye.    Of course, a good eye will produce walks and that's a good thing with good speed/baserunning.  A guy with good contact/power can get by with poor eye.   It's all a combination of ratings.

Pitching is more complex than hitting.   A semi-acceptable LR might have 55 control/splits and P1/2 of 72/60.  That's just someone to throw out there and eat some innings.   He won't do anything exceptionally poor or good.    But I've used lower control with better splits/pitches and lower splits with better control/pitches.   And it varies in worlds based on defense, hitting and competition.   Throw a superior defense behind a blah pitcher and he'll produce some decent numbers.

You don't.  You can try the designate the SP but I'm not sure the ball will go to the guy you want to start unless he's the only SP.   Then you have to deal with the next game.

Have you ever heard an owner argue that MWRs are bad for the long term health of a world? Im having that argument in Kenny Powers right now.

Yes.  Their view is that "forcing" teams to field a competitive BL team(one capable of winning 70 games, more or less) hurts/delays the "rebuilding" process.   IOW, they have to put money into the BL team at the expense of prospects.   It's complete bullshit because EVERYONE has to do the same thing but good luck convincing them of that.

If you decline a mutual option on a Type A or B pick do you forfeit any possible draft pick compensation?