With spring training on the somewhat immediate horizon, there’s been a bit of anticipation surrounding the annual list of non-roster invitees to camp. The Atlanta Braves have now revealed that list and as expected, there’s a decent mix of top prospects looking to make a splash and veteran longshots looking to latch onto a roster for Opening Day.
The Braves officially revealed the list via press release, which I’ll share part of with y’all right here:
Five invitees ended the 2025 campaign ranked among Atlanta’s top 30 prospects per MLB.com, including top 10 pitchers RHPs JR Ritchie (No. 2), Garrett Baumann (No. 6) and Owen Murphy (No. 8). Shortstops Alex Lodise (No. 4) and John Gil (No. 13) also received their first invites to major league spring training and are the highest-rated positional prospects in camp. In total, nine of Atlanta’s top 30 prospects following last season will be in camp this year, including 40-man players RHPs Didier Fuentes (No. 7), Rolddy Muñoz (No. 17) and Jhancarlos Lara (No. 21), as well as LHP Hayden Harris (No. 25).
Seventeen of the 24 invitees have previous major league experience, including five – RHP Carlos Carrasco, Cs Sandy León and Chadwick Tromp, INF Luke Williams and OF José Azócar – who appeared with Atlanta last season. LHP Martín Pérez enters camp as a former American League All-Star and World Series champion, earning All-Star honors while with Texas in 2022 and hoisting the trophy with the Rangers the following season. Infielder Aaron Schunk is an Atlanta native and attended the Lovett School and the University of Georgia prior to his professional career.
It’s pretty exciting to see a Who’s Who of top Braves prospects on the non-roster invitee list. JR Ritchie is a consensus Top 100 prospect, Didier Fuentes was knocking on the door of consensus Top 100 status and Braves fans got very familiar with Hayden Harris last season as well. It’ll be very interesting to see which prospects use the opportunity as a chance to simply learn and get better or if there’s anybody who’s capable of taking a leap and potentially cracking the Opening Day roster. It’ll be a longshot but it’ll also be intriguing to see how these guys fare during spring training.
On the veteran side of things, we’ve got some familiar faces like Sandy León, Chadwick Tromp and Luke Williams — the two catchers are in a very intriguing situation considering what’s going on with Sean Murphy and his injury status for the early portion of this upcoming season. Luke Williams (and Aaron Schunk as well) could also potentially have aspirations of breaking camp with the big league squad since Ha-Seong Kim’s icy mishap has left a spot open there for potential depth. Martin Pérez was recently signed not too long ago, so it’ll be interesting to see what he’s got. Also, Carlos Carrasco is still going for it — even if he had a very rough 2025 at the big league level, it’s still nice to see him keep going considering the circumstances that he’s had to deal with over the course of his career.
The full list shared by the Braves via press release is below. Which NRIs are y’all most excited to see and/or hear about during this season’s spring training?
Non-Roster Invitees (24)
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Pitchers (10): RH Garrett Baumann, RH Carlos Carrasco, RH Javy Guerra, RH Elieser Hernández, RH James Karinchak, RH Owen Murphy, LH Martín Pérez, RH Austin Pope, RH JR Ritchie, RH Tayler Scott
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Catchers (3): Jair Camargo, Sandy León, Chadwick Tromp
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Infielders (7): Tristin English, John Gil, Jim Jarvis, Alex Lodise, Aaron Schunk, Luke Waddell, Luke Williams
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Outfielders (4): José Azócar, Ben Gamel, Brewer Hicklen, DaShawn Keirsey Jr.
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