From a beat reporter’s perspective, Dax McCarty was everything you hope for: seemingly always available, always front and center, never one to mince words. His honesty was at times brutal, and that is not something you’ll hear anyone with recording device at training complain about. His influence in the locker room and the training ground was obvious, and you can’t help but assume it extended also to the USL squad and NYRB II’s title-winning 2016.
And now he’s gone. New York Red Bulls’ Captain Dax has just been traded to the Chicago Fire for General Allocation Money in a deal worth $400,000 (to be paid over two seasons).