When it comes to tracking the expansion draft you essentially have two choices: You can go with the national pundits or you can trust the people that cover the teams everyday. We’re trusting the locals
MLS Mock Expansion Draft: Timbers Select Scott Sealy; Whitecaps Take Amadou Sanyang
86 Forever: Sanyang is a quick, nimble, and fairly tall player. He’s gotten in twenty first team games with Toronto despite a couple injuries. He plays both defense and midfield, can play outside or centrally, and is a solid, reliable player. He’s remarkably inexpensive. And he’s 19 years old. He could be a useful bench player for Vancouver right now, and in a few years could be a lot more than that.
Read Article >MLS Expansion Draft: Timbers Select Eric Brunner; Whitecaps Take Pat Onstad
MLS Mock Expansion Draft: Timbers Select Sanna Nyassi; Whitecaps Take Chukwudi Chijindu
Chopping Timber: Nyassi has proven to be a very capable midfielder when he wants to be. I’m chalking up his potential to his entire youth factor he has going for him. Regardless, his performance for Seattle at this past year’s Open Cup, particularly the final is proof enough that the kid has some serious potential brewing inside of him. Potential which is being ignored by Seattle.
Read Article >Major League Soccer, Mock Expansion Draft: We Look Into Our Crystal Ball To Foresee How This All Plays Out
Plenty of pundits are releasing their own Expansion Protection Lists. Some of them will, no doubt, be reasonably accurate. Others will be based on horrible misconceptions.
We here at SB Nation have access to people who follow their teams much closer than any national pundit could. As of today, we have blogs devoted to 10 of the 16 teams that played in MLS this season. Rather than do the heavy lifting ourselves, we enlisted those bloggers to help us create our own Expansion Protection Lists. After all, what good is a resource if you aren’t willing to exploit it?
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