The Chicago Cubs know they will get contributions this season from players who aren\u2019t yet on their 40-man roster.<\/p>\n
Spring training<\/a> presents an opportunity for those nonroster players to put themselves on the organization\u2019s radar. The Cubs on Monday announced invitations to big-league camp for 18 such players.<\/p>\n The breakdown by position:<\/p>\n Pitchers (8): Jeff Brigham, Grant Kipp, Corbin Martin, Connor Noland, Connor Schultz, Collin Snider, Trent Thornton<\/a> and Jaxon Wiggins. The group notably features two of their top prospects in Wiggins and Rojas, while the position-player invitees give the Cubs depth options with big-league experience in Kingery, Carlson and McCormick.<\/p>\n Carlson and McCormick have the clearest path to making the opening-day roster as the Cubs look for a fourth outfielder to back up their three starters. Both Carlson, a former first-round pick by the St. Louis Cardinals, and McCormick, who when healthy played well in Houston, can play all three outfield positions.<\/p>\n The Cubs hold their first formal workout for pitchers and catchers Wednesday at the team\u2019s complex in Mesa, Ariz. Their first full-squad workout is slated for next Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs know they will get contributions this season from players who aren\u2019t yet on their 40-man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,9280,138,24,49,2561,590,24392,9673,4,74215,16961,151,396,2562],"class_list":["post-563336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chas-mccormick","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-dylan-carlson","tag-jaxon-wiggins","tag-jefferson-rojas","tag-mlb","tag-nonroster-invitations","tag-scott-kingery","tag-spring-training","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116043743817846628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCatchers (3): Ariel Armas, Christian Bethancourt and Casey Optiz.
\nInfielders (4): Scott Kingery, Jonathon Long, B.J. Murray and Jefferson Rojas.
\nOutfielders (3): Brett Bateman, Dylan Carlson<\/a> and Chas McCormick<\/a>.<\/p>\n