With a little over three weeks until the 2016 edition of the MLS Expansion Draft (this one in order to stock the cupboards of new MLS sides Minnesota United and Atlanta FC), the SB Nation runners-of-things asked each of their MLS sites, including us, to present a protected list for a mock expansion draft.
The deliberations that ensued behind closed doors were quite extensive, owing (a) to the general lack of intuitive ease of MLS’s roster rules and regulations and (b) your faithful staff may or may not try to sound more intelligent in our articles than we do in, you know, real life.