It’s that time of year. The time of year when Major League Soccer implements a different convoluted mechanism for acquiring players every day.
Yesterday was the MLS expansion draft, in which Columbus Crew SC continued its tradition of losing players and said goodbye to Jukka Raitala, who was selected by Los Angeles FC and later traded to the Montreal Impact.
Today? Get excited for the MLS waiver draft!
It kicks off at 3:30 p.m. EST.
What does this mean, exactly? It’s an opportunity to select from a pool of players (this year, it is 59) who were either waived or did not have contracts renewed and do not fall under the terms of eligibility for the re-entry draft (i.