Tomorrow the Portland Timbers could lose one of their players, but there are no guarantees. Only 10 teams will have players selected in this year’s version of what, by now, has become a regular tradition: an offseason expansion draft in Major League Soccer.
Eleven times in the last 14 years, MLS has used this process to add talent to its newest teams, asking each of its existing franchises to make players available to populate new clubs. This year, the league’s 24 existing teams were allowed to “protect” 12 players each from their current roster.
The rest are up for grabs to be selected on Tuesday in the 2019 edition (2:30pm PT, MLSsoccer.