Red Sox announce 30 non-roster invitees for spring training

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images We are now less than a week from the first official workout of spring for the Red Sox, with pitchers and catchers reporting on Thursday and the first workout coming on Friday. It’s been a long offseason, largely filled with inactivity before a flurry of small and mid-tier moves taking place over the last month or so. Now, we’ll finally be able to see them on the field, at least just to work out at first.

Spring training is going to be a bit different this year with COVID-19 still a major problem in this country. Teams will no longer be able to take players from minor-league camp for big-league games anymore, among other changes. Teams had…