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If you’re a free-agent pitcher, or a draftee, and you want to get better and excel, there’s no reason to want to play in Anaheim.

How does a draftee with a Purple Heart stack up against a volunteer who wasn’t wounded?

He deserves, like all draftees, to play somewhere he can be himself and lay down his own footprints and be celebrated.

Consider that there are roughly 256 draftees every year — give or take a few — and 1,696 players on initial 53-man rosters every year, and simple math shows there’s always a numbers game at hand.

As such, the next few weeks will give the Seahawks their best view yet of what to expect from Murphy, third-round pick guard Christian Haynes and the rest of the draftees.