MLB Spring Training: Spotlight on Each Team's Most Intriguing Non-Roster Invitees
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MLB Spring Training: Spotlight on Each Team's Most Intriguing Non-Roster Invitees

As spring training gets under way, various players battle for roster spots while others aim to showcase their skills.

Spring training has arrived. Camps across Arizona and Florida are opening this week, and next week Cactus League and Grapefruit League games will begin. I can’t wait. I am so ready for this slog of an offseason to be over.

Spring games are meaningless but they are fun in their own way, mostly because they allow us to see players we usually don’t get to watch during the regular season. Top prospects, reclamation project veterans, and many other minor leaguers will rub elbows with the big-league team during exhibition games before heading to the minors at the end of March.

Over the last few weeks, the 30 MLB clubs announced their non-roster invitees (NRIs) to spring training. Those are players who will be in big-league camp despite not being on the 40-man roster. Some NRIs are top prospects, others are journeyman veterans, and many are somewhere in between.

With spring training arriving and exhibition games on the horizon, let’s examine each team’s most interesting NRI. As a reminder, all players on the 40-man roster will automatically be in big-league camp, a group that includes top prospects like Colson Montgomery (White Sox) and Emmanuel Rodriguez (Twins). Here now are the top NRIs to watch.

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