Guardians 26-man roster. Part 1 - Two weeks in and where do we go from here?

 OK, what do we know so far:

• Estevan Florial is exactly who we all knew he was.  A toolsy AAAA player who looks good in a uniform but can't play at the ML level.  He will always get plenty of chances, with his tools, with each team he plays for hoping the light will go on some day.  But with our pathetic hitting coach/ hitting development staff, it is not happening here.
• Deyvson De Los Santos is not ready for the majors.   We need to find a way to trade for him so we can send him to the minors.  Again: Jose Tena, Myles Straw & $3 million for Jorge Barrosa and the rights to De Los Santos.
• Tyler Freeman should have been playing the OF for a year now.  Look, his bat makes him an upgrade in CF from Straw.  Straw has not shown any improvement this year in his hitting.  He looks like the same old guy as evidenced by the balls he hit in his first two ABs this spring not going 100 feet...combined.  But it is an equation:  offense PLUS defense.  Right now it is hard to believe that Freeman's offensive upgrade will be worth the downgrade in defense, compared to Straw.
• It appears that David Fry is being shoved out of a position and will end up in Columbus.  The goal of having him focus on his catching is admirable for the Guardians.  Of course, it gives them the opportunity to say they are only going to carry 2 catchers and so Fry will be going to Columbus to work on his catching when, in fact, he is the most valuable 26th man in baseball, being able to catch and play 1B, 3B, LF and RF at a VERY acceptable level. Whether Fry ends up at AAA or in the majors on opening day, it won't likely impact the number of wins and losses we have.  It will, however, keep us from having Austin Hedges have to bat as often & give us another RH bat off the bench.
• Will Brennan - So far he looks like the same player as last year.  That is not a good thing
• Juan Brito - For the first time since the trade to Cleveland he looks, to me, to be lost at the plate.  It appears that the information the hitting department is giving him made him change his whole approach at the plate.  He is now swinging at balls he would never have swung at last year and not putting good swings on balls he would have punished last year.  
• Angel Martinez is having a great spring.  The fact that people are dreaming on him being the opening day SS shows just how pathetic Brayan Rocchio and Gabriel Arias have looked so far.  
• Anthony Banda, Adam Oller, Tyler Zuber, Jamie Barria - All of these MiLB free agent signings look terrible and they should all be cut right now instead of wasting another ST or minor league inning on them.
• Ben Lively, Tyler Beede - Neither look like any more than AAAA filler right now.  They are both struggling and, when you are battling for a spot, you shouldn't be struggling like this in early ST against hitters who are behind.
• Jhonkensy Noel, Jonathon Rodriguez - Neither of these guys look much better than Florial at this point.  Swinging at pitches way out of the zone, swinging and missing at fastballs in the zone.

No one is looking good right now except for DeLauter and Martinez.  I mean NOBODY.  You can't put too much emphasis on ST results (remember Roman Quinn's 3 HRs in the first 2 ST games last year!), but we know what guys are supposed to be good, who we want to be good, and who we, in our wildest dreams would like to do good.  So far, not much is going right for this team this spring exxcept that, outside of Stephan and Karinchak, it appears that injuries are being kept to a miimum.

So, at this point, nothing I have seem sways me from believing that this could actually be a 100 loss team this year.  Hopefully things change in the near future and they actually start looking like a playoff contender.