Do the Guardians NRI Signings Really Suck As Bad As I Think They Do?

 Looking back over the past 3 years of NRI invitees I am fighting mad.   Here are the players the Guardians brought in as VETERAN non-roster invitees to spring training:

2022 -  Anthony Castro, Yohan Ramirez, Alex Young, Ian Gibault, Jake Jewell, Sandy Leon

2023 - Touki Toussaint, Caleb Barager, Dusten Knight, Caleb Simpson, Roman Quinn, Zack Collins, Daniel Norris (at end of ST)

2024 - Adam Oller, Jamie Barria, Carlos Carrasco, Anthony Banda,Tyler Zuber, Dom Nunez

 This is a pathetic list.  Unless Carrasco ends up having a real comeback season, none of these guys, ZERO, stand even a small chance to make any significant impact on the Guardians.  NONE.

The Guardians have to do better than this.  I mean, just looking back, since Feb. 1st this year the following players, among others, received MiLB deals with non-roster invitations to spring training:

Francisco Mejia C (Feb. 29)

Kolten Wong, 2B (Feb. 28)

Tim Locastro P (Feb 28)

Julio Teheran P (Feb 27)

Jason Alexander P (Feb. 27)

Matt Barnes P (Feb 27)

Naoyuk Usasawa P (Feb 26)

Garrett Cooper 1B (Feb 25)

Cam Gallagher C (Feb 24)

Derek Law P (Feb 22)

Francisco Perez P (Feb 20)

David Peralta OF (Feb. 19)

Chase Anderson P (Feb 17)

Bryan Shaw P (Feb. 16)

Zach Davies P (Feb 15)

Jacob Barnes P (Feb 15)

Curt Casali C (Feb 12)

Adrian Sampson P (Feb 12)

Jesse Winker OF (Feb 12)

Luis Perdomo P (Feb 10)

Just look at the guys who signed minor league deals as NRIs with other teams since February 1st.  Don't even look at the guys who signed those deals in December and January.  Just look at the recent ones.   It is embarrassing who we signed compared to who was available.

History tells you that the 2024 NRIs have just as little chance to help this team as those from 2023 and 2022.  But we still keep signing these guys who are no more than AA and AAA roster fillers instead of preparing ourselves for inevitable injuries that occur.  

I understand the 165 minor league player limit.  I understand that the better minor league FAs all want opt-out clauses that, without injuries to ML players, sometimes make it hard to keep these players past opening day or May 1st.  I also understand that by having guys like this means that if you have to bring them up to the majors in an emergency,  it doesn't hurt as much to DFA or release them if they don't have a spot on the team. Hey, I don't mind signing guys like we do, but they can't be the only NRIs you bring in.  You have to bring in guys who actually have a chance to help this team coming out of ST if the need is there.  None of these guys do.

This is not a good look for a franchise that saw it doesn't have the money to sign quality or even lower level ML free agents.  You can't have it both ways.   You have to bring in talent either in major league free agents or minor league free agents who have ML track records of success in case you have injuries.  If, like the past two years, these NRIs get play during the ML season the fans have a right to be fighting mad.  The Guardians have played the same game the last 2 years and it has hurt the performance of the team.

It is time to stop this bottom feeding and do the right thing for the fans in Cleveland.  I mean, bringing in quality NRIs is the very LEAST the FO and ownership can do to help us prepare for the season.

Why they don't do this so the fans can field team without career minor leaguers on the roster is bewildering to me.