What Is To Be Done? (With Lucas Cavallini)

In my last article, I took a look at how Lucas Cavallini was emblematic of the lack of direction that has plagued the Whitecaps for much of their time in MLS. In that article, I freely admitted that I had no idea if they should pick up his contract option or not. I think it is worth going into a bit more detail about why that is such a hard decision. After all, any jackass can say what should have been done in hindsight. It takes real punditry chops to say what should be done next.

To my mind, there are two potential paths. Each of them has an element that makes them deeply undesirable. If you have read the book Moneyball (you should never pass up an opportunity to flex the fact that you…