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...who disagree with me. They have their opinions, and I try to understand their POV on why a player will or will not be successful. If they turn out to be right and it is for the reasons they declared, that's a good thing to keep in mind with future prospects.
Carraway would be a really good teammate for darts on beer night. If you haven't seen him throw, here's a clip from Lonnie (Capps included, no extra charge).
He's like mini-Doug-Fister.  Shove the arm back, wheel it around and discharge with pinpoint accuracy.  He even does the slight stepping-out-of-bed motion for his slidestep that just makes him MORE accurate with guys on base.
The problem with pinpoint-accurate / change speed guys:  You can't tell until they get to the bigs just how accurate they are or how deceptive their change is.  The difference between Halama and Moyer is thin.  Halama has a no hitter AND a perfect game in the minors.  He's that good.
Except he got to the bigs and wasn't that good.  Of course, the thing that isn't explained about Halama in the stats is that he didn't like baseball.  He just did it for the money.  It was like being a deep sea fisherman or something:  good cash for a distasteful lifestyle, and you can relax later with money in the bank.  He made four and a half MILLION dollars doing something he didn't particularly care for.  I'd do that too.
Carraway is a baseball rat.  He's a good pitcher.  As you said, all AAA pitchers are good.  Will he be a good major leaguer?  I dunno, but I suspect he'll he'll have several years in the bigs.  He looks like pre-plateau-jump Fister to me.  I like him better than Beavan.  
The makeup of a man means something.  Cloude was always laying blame off on other people.  In that sense I understand why the Ms like Beavan:  his attitude about being a starter is top notch.  He lets all trouble roll off him like water off a duck's back.  He's extraordinarily confident in himself and his abilities, even if his abilities to this outside observer seem to be very ordinary.
Will we have room for Carraway on our club?  No idea.  But "reliable long reliever" is a useful if fungible role.  It's up to Carraway to shoulder his way onto the radar, and the roster, in much the same way Erasmo has so far.
You never know who's gonna turn out.  Carraway has a better shot than many.  I certainly wouldn't call him "not a prospect" as some have.
But on this team, with the arms we're collecting?  He's probably gonna want to call up Fister and ask him about that plateau leap.
~G