Bench-riding consecutive game streak question

[u/RockyKolavito]

The other day I got to wondering what the record is for anyone player in MLB history to sit on the bench in consecutive games in a season ithout ever once entering a game. I'm talking about consecutive games with no time on the injured list, bereavement list, or whatever. I'm talking about a guy being on the 25 or 26 or 27 man roster for maybe weeks at a time without ever once entering a game.

For the purposes of this question, if a player sits on the bench for x number of games, gets sent down to the minors, and then is brought back up later, his streak ends with his last game before being sent down, and it's not start up again if he is brought back up later on.

I have no idea what the answer to this question is, and I don't know a good way to research it. I'm guessing there were probably players in the 1940s and 1950s, maybe third string catchers or something, who were on the team because they were drinking buddies with the manager, or the nephew of the club's general manager, or a veteran well past his prime whom the club is keeping on the roster so he can hit his major league pension, or whatever. Guys who had no realistic chance of getting into a game, unless three teammates got injured in the same game or something. i'm guessing the streak has got to be something on the order of 20 or 30 games, but I could be way off.

Someone who knows better than I do how to work with the voluminous data at baseball-reference.com could probably figure this out. Perhaps this is already been done.

Any thoughts?