Sounders trade top pick, select locals

Photo by Tony Quinn/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIt was a relatively busy MLS SuperDraft day for the Seattle Sounders, even if they only ended up picking two players relatively late.

After announcing that they had signed Dylan Teves to a Homegrown Player contract, the Sounders then proceeded to trade their first-round pick to the New York Red Bulls in exchange for the 43rd overall pick and $75,000 in General Allocation Money. It was also learned that the Sounders had acquired $50,000 in GAM from D.C. United in a trade for Tony Alfaro’s MLS rights, rather than the originally reported second-round pick in this year’s draft.

The Sounders eventually used the 43rd pick on University of…