Every year, the Yankees’ list of spring training non-roster invitees offers an intriguing look at quite a variety of players. They’re usually either top prospects looking to impress, or veterans of the major and league level, hoping to take advantage of perhaps one last shot to earn an Opening Day roster spot.
The 2022 lockout and delay to the start of camp has already had numerous ripple effects. One of them is that prospects will not make up many of these non-roster invitees. Usually by this point on the calendar, they’ll have been sent back to minor league camp anyway because the only prospects with at least a remote shot at making the big league club likely began March on the 40-man roster and thus already in major league camp.