An interminable, ever-changing series of drafts in December function more or less as MLS’s annual advent calendar, with clubs peeling back the thin cardboard doors hoping to find the spectacular but more often settling for something decent: the soccer equivalent of milk chocolate.
The San Jose Earthquakes selected Olmes Garcia, the 24-year-old Real Salt forward from Colombia, in the second stage of the re-entry draft. What that entails is that the Quakes get exclusive negotiating rights for his next contract in MLS, rather than the player himself. Usually (as with Sanna Nyassi and Marvell Wynne in 2015), the two parties get it done.