D.C. United player review 2016: Alvaro Saborio

It was bound to happen. The thing with a weeks-long series that asks whether each player on the roster should return and the nature of any professional sport’s offseason means that we were inevitably going to have a post rendered moot before we even got to write it. This is that post, and its subject is departed D.C. United striker Alvaro Saborio.

The Costa Rican led United in goalscoring for a big chunk of the year, despite only rarely featuring in the starting XI. (Of course, most of that time involved los Capitalinos not scoring many goals.)

Nevertheless, his starting performances generally vindicated Ben Olsen’s decisions to keep him on the bench, both before and after the arrival of…