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Nowhere in here have you addressed the following questions about this strange paradigm of "Career Minor League" stats:
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1.  The fact that the longer a player stays in the minors, the better his "career minor league" numbers are.
2.  The fact that one org promotes a 19-year-old, and another one doesn't.  One org sees a kid fan 120 times and holds him back; another one moves him on, as the Dodgers did Trayvon.
3.  The fact that even within a single level, say AAA, one league is much tougher to hit in than the other.
4.  The fact that a college player starts off with a huge head start in development when the clock begins on his "career minor league" numbers.
5.  The fact that kids who would have failed at higher levels, aren't allowed to.
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Would you mix Jeremy Reed's or Garrett Olson's AAA and MLB stats into one blended milkshake and assess him based on those?  Then what are we doing blending A+, AA, and AAA stats and calling them one rational milkshake?
"Career minor league" numbers have ZERO credence with me.  No more credence than Garrett Olson's blended AA/AAA/AL "career professional" numbers do.