On Thursday, the Seattle Sounders and every other MLS team will have to make public their list of players excluded from the 2022 Expansion Draft. That list of excluded players will include all Homegrowns 25 years old or younger, as well as 12 others. The next day, St. Louis City SC will be allowed to pick five players, but no more than one player from any team.
Josh Atencio, Reed Baker-Whiting, Ethan Dobbelaere, Sota Kitahara, Danny Leyva, Dylan Teves and Obed Vargas are all exempt from the draft as Homegrown Players younger than 26.
Most of the Sounders’ protected players are pretty straightforward, I think.