Posted by contrarian23 on 6/19/2012 3:41:00 PM (view original):
There was a time a few years ago when AAA pitchers were routinely more valuable than AAA position players.  Experienced owners would often prey on newbies who did not realize this value differential, and so many owners got in the habit of just reflexively vetoing those trades.  This continues even though it is no longer close to ture in my opinion.

With game changes, salary changes, and the IP/PA minimums in OLs, I now think the opposite is true: AAA position players are much more valuable than pitchers.  It's very very very rare for me to get a AAA pitcher whom I would use for anything other than mop-up duty.  If you happen to luck into a 9 or 10 effectiveness (the only pitchers I would use in anything but a mop up or Long B role), they will inevitably only be able to give you 25-35 innings.  In contrast, I've had many many position players who could be used as a platoon, or even fulltime starter.  Assuming I drafted my PA well, I can then drop a position player, or waive him for a guy with many fewer PA but much higher quality.  I've gotten 24 Riggs Stephenson, 26 Ty Cobb, and other comparable guys as AAA position players.