There are a lot of unwritten rules in baseball, and their implicit lack of documentation can make it difficult to keep track of them all. But I’m pretty sure that Unwritten Rule #524 is “If Your Major League baseball team gives 100+ ABs to an outfield worth less than -0.5 fWAR, you are not allowed to claim to have a glut of outfield talent.”
That is only, of course, if you were to break Unwritten Rule #1.
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Come on. Look at this haphazard polka band of players. You’ve got a 30-year-old “Veteran Presence” who hadn’t been seen since June of 2019, a former Rookie of the Year who was out most of the season, an escaped Yeti with a unproven record and suspect routes, a perfectly acceptable 26th man who becomes a distinctly unacceptable ninth man, and a guy who made his MLB debut after a decade in the minors.