Just the other day when the Yankees announced the fortunate names headed to Tampa to take part in Grapefruit League action, my DMs were blown up on Twitter by angry fans wanting to know how the team could not include prospects such as Miguel Andujar, Dietrich Enns, Kyle Higashioka, Jorge Mateo or Domingo German.
Instead of getting into it via social media, I figured I’d wait until now to enlighten a certain section of fans on how the 40-man roster works. Very simply, if a player is on the 40-man, as are each of the aforementioned names, they don’t need an invite to Spring Training, they are automatically scheduled to be there.