draftee
Example Sentences
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The turnaround from waived to role player came even faster than from draftee to cut.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
How does a draftee with a Purple Heart stack up against a volunteer who wasn’t wounded?
From Salon
He deserves, like all draftees, to play somewhere he can be himself and lay down his own footprints and be celebrated.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Seattle Times
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