Shea Salinas, who will surpass 15,000 career minutes next weekend, entered Major League Soccer in 2008 upon being drafted by the Earthquakes in the second round out of Furman University. His elusiveness and pace on the wing has always been evident and even resulted in him being selected in back-to-back Expansion Drafts as teams looked for immediate boosts to their roster (2010 – PHI; 2011 – VAN).
He returned to the Quakes in 2012 and tallied seven assists en route to the club’s second-ever Supporters’ Shield that season. After establishing himself as a key member of the team despite primarily coming off the bench, Salinas found himself regularly penciled into the Starting XI in each of the next three seasons – recording 24, 30 and 29 starts from 2013-15.