The Cincinnati Reds announced today that they have invited 18 minor league players to Goodyear, Arizona for spring training. However, these 18 players will not be a part of “big league camp”, as these are not non-roster invites. What this seems to be is basically the players that will be in “early minor league spring training” – or basically, Triple-A spring training.
In a normal year big league spring training will begin around the middle of the third week of February. Minor League spring training will then start around the end of the first week of March and there are about 200 players in total at the facility between the big leagues and minor leagues.