My three guys taken off would have been easy.
Alberto Tirado-Can't throw strikes, too far away to stick.
Elinary Garcia-IMO too far away to worry about, though may have had the talent to stick as a lefty reliever.
Jesmuel Valentin-We would have probably lost him, considering he was going to be at AAA, but had missed significant time for personal reasons and had shown very little.
I thought they seriously overdid it protecting too many and tying their own hands over the off-season.
Now if you try to remove those three, you would almost certainly lose them, because they wouldn't have to be on the claiming teams 25 man roster.
...............and no, this isn't "20/20 Hindsight", I was very surprised to see some of the players protected last off-season.
All that said, if the players mentioned were on other teams, I probably would have drafted Elinary Garcia as our 7th pitcher out of the pen.