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Instead of to Tacoma:
I want him thinking like an ace, not the junior (age) member of the trio.
Hultzen and Paxton can sharpen each other ("as iron sharpens iron" as Tebow might say) by dueling over the Ace role in Tacoma in an Anything-You-Can-Do-I-Can-Do-Better sort of way.
Hard to do that with three guys.  Ask Chris Bosh how a three-headed monster looks.  Somebody makes the third head look shorter somehow.  And Erasmo will likely be in AAA too, but is okay with being the junior member.  He's a scrapper who has an over-looked game, so underdog fits him.  He can Pineiro his way as the third man in a trio of great arms. (commence knocking on wood that Paxton and Hultzen don't have the injury issues that Anderson and Meche did ahead of Pineiro).
In AA, Walker's the undisputed ace of the team and perhaps the league.  There's a ton of talent in AA, so it's not like he's facing chumps.  And he gets the chance to fight his way up.  I'd rather Walker be the leader of the AA staff and get practice at that than buffer him behind Paxton and Hultzen.
But if all four guys wind up in Tacoma, then yes, I can see several major league rotations that they should be better than, especially with Carraway as a #5.  And with potentially Snow, Robles, Pryor, LaFromboise and Moran in the pen... yowtch.
Beware of Tacoma in April.  Darren Brown has to be cackling with glee.  "Wait a minute, you're giving me THAT staff plus Wilson, Trayvon, Catricala, Liddi, Nick Franklin, Chiang...  Is it my birthday already?"
~G