Orange County Register

With Wednesday’s announcement of their 27 non-roster invitees, the roster of players the Angels will take to spring training is pretty much set.

Here are the 65 players expected to report in the next couple weeks (first workout for pitchers and catchers is Feb. 18, first full-squad workout Feb. 23), listed by uniform number:

(And here are the rest of the spring dates to circle on your calendar.)

2 — SS Erick Aybar

3 — IF Brandon Wood

5 — C Jeff Mathis

6 — IF Hainley Statia

8 — 1B Kendry Morales

9 — IF Alexi Amarista

12 — IF Freddy Sandoval

13 — IF Maicer Izturis
16 — IF Abel Nieves

17 — OF Terry Evans

18 — IF Ryan Mount

19 — OF Cory Aldridge

20 — OF Juan Rivera

22 — LHP Scott Kazmir

24 — IF Mark Trumbo

25 — OF Peter Bourjos

27 — IF Andrew Romine

28 — C Ryan Budde

32 — RHP Matt Palmer

33 — OF Chris Pettit

35 — RHP Joel Pineiro

36 — RHP Jered Weaver

37 — RHP Sean O’Sullivan

38 — LHP Trevor Reckling

39 — RHP Tommy Mendoza

40 — LHP Brian Fuentes

43 — RHP Brian Stokes

44 — C Mike Napoli

45 — RHP Francisco Rodriguez

46 — C Bobby Wilson

47 — 2B Howie Kendrick

48 — OF Torii Hunter

49 — RHP Anthony Ortega

51 — LHP Joe Saunders

52 — RHP Jason Bulger

53 — OF Bobby Abreu

54 — RHP Ervin Santana

55 — OF Hideki Matsui

56 — RHP Fernando Rodney

57 — RHP Fernando Rodriguez

58 — RHP Michael Kohn

59 — RHP Rafael Rodriguez

60 — RHP Bobby Mosebach

62 — RHP Scot Shields

63 — RHP Rich Thompson

64 — C Hank Conger

65 — RHP Kevin Jepsen

66 — RHP Kevin Nabors

68 — LHP Andrew Taylor

69 — RHP Travis Chick

70 — RHP Trevor Bell

73 — IF Nate Sutton

74 — OF Jeremy Moore

77 — OF Reggie Willits

79 — OF Brad Coon

83 — OF Michael Ryan

86 — IF Efren Navarro

87 — LHP Will Smith

89 — RHP Tyler Chatwood

90 — RHP Ryan Chaffee

91 — RHP Ryan Brasier

94 — IF Gary Patchett

96 — C Anel de los Santos

97 — C Alberto Rosario

98 — C Brian Walker

All around the majors, experienced major-leaguers are signing minor-league contracts and getting non-roster invitations to spring training.

It’s a veritable who’s who — or at least a who was. Jim Edmonds. Guillermo Mota. Miguel Batista. Joey Gathright. Nick Green (the best 3-and-4 hitter in baseball last year). Mark Grudzielanek. Austin Kearns. Paul Lo Duca. Matt Stairs. Chad Tracy.

It’s the baseball equivalent of rolling up the toothpaste tube to squeeze the last bits out and it occasionally pays off for the teams and players involved.

The Angels’ only contribution to the non-roster parade, though, have been donations. Former Angels Jeff Weaver, Alfredo Amezaga and Ramon Ortiz are among the Dodgers’ non-roster collection. Three members of the 2009 Angels will be heading to spring training later this month in the non-roster invitee category — Justin Speier (Rockies), Shane Loux (Astros) and Jose Arredondo (Reds).

In the Stoneman-Scioscia-Reagins era, though, the Angels’ philosophy has been to extend their non-roster invitations to young players already in the organization, most of whom have virtually no chance of making the Opening Day roster. It’s a way to expose those players to a big-league camp — not to search for possible bargain-bin discoveries.

Not surprisingly, the 27 players the Angels announced today as their non-roster invitees to this year’s spring training camp have a combined total of three games (and five innings) of major-league experience.

All of that belongs to right-hander Travis Chick who made the Seattle Mariners for those five innings in 2006 (posting a 12.60 ERA). Chick, 25, spent last season at Double-A Chattanooga in the Dodgers’ system, going 8-7 with a 4.22 ERA. Chick signed as a minor-league free agent with the Angels this winter, his sixth organization.

The complete list of non-roster invitees:

PITCHERS (11) – RHP Ryan Brasier, RHP Travis Chick, RHP Ryan Chaffee, RHP Tyler Chatwood, RHP Michael Kohn, RHP Tommy Mendoza, RHP Kevin Nabors, LHP Trevor Reckling, RHP Francisco Rodriguez, LHP Will Smith, LHP Andrew Taylor

CATCHERS (4) — Hank Conger, Anel de los Santos, Alberto Rosario, Brian Walker

INFIELDERS (8) — Alexi Amarista, Ryan Mount, Efren Navarro, Abel Nieves, Gary Patchett, Andrew Romine, Hainley Statia, Nate Sutton

OUTFIELDERS (4) — Cory Aldridge, Brad Coon, Jeremy Moore, Michael Ryan