The timing of David Horst’s three years with the Portland Timbers leave him as part of a group whose significance will transcend their numbers – players whose contributions during the club’s first MLS seasons helped take the team from expansion lessons to third-year success. By the end of that third year, Horst’s time in Portland was done, but over 38 appearances in central defense during his first two Timbers seasons, Horst provided a rare point of consistency within an evolving squad.
Over the course of the 2011 and 2012 seasons, Horst was second among Timbers central defenders in appearances, starts and minutes played, with only Eric Brunner eclipsing his marks.