Our D.C. United protected list for SB Nation’s mock 2017 MLS Expansion Draft

With LAFC taking the field in 2018, MLS has opted to bring back one of its many time-honored traditions: the Expansion Draft. Well, “honored” might not be right, since most people really dislike the Expansion Draft, and for good reason. MLS now gives teams the allocation funds to build their own rosters without stripping assets from others, and most expansion teams just take players and trade them back to their original team or elsewhere. Last year, six of the ten players selected by Atlanta United and Minnesota United had been traded elsewhere in MLS by the end of the first month of the season.

Nonetheless, the Expansion Draft exists, which means Bob Bradley and LAFC will be getting to pick…