TUKWILA, Wash. — Osvaldo Alonso was not selected in the MLS Expansion Draft on Tuesday, despite being made available. That’s exactly what the Seattle Sounders expected would happen, and GM Garth Lagerwey seemed happy to head into 2018 with Alonso still on the roster.
“When you look at the history of expansion drafts, expensive older players are most often not selected,” Lagerwey said when asked about Alonso during a wide-ranging end-of-season interview with reporters. “We felt like we had good information that it was relatively low risk to [expose Alonso]. Nothing is zero risk, but that is why we did what we did and we’ll move forward from there.