A Look at the Re-entry Draft

So tomorrow will be phase one of the re-entry draft for the MLS. Here is a link for all of the players that are available for the draft. I'm not going to go through every single name that's on the list but just touch on the Fire players and some interesting names that could possibly work for the Fire. So the Fire declined the options of Nolly, Bone, and Segares. The first two names were not surprising to me considering Bone was projected to graduate as a Generation Adidas player and Nolly found himself third choice behing Johnson and Tornaghi. Segares was a very big surprise to me considering he has been one of the best left backs in the league since he first started playing in the MLS. Frank must have a plan otherwise he would not have done this to a fan favorite and a player that brings some grit and physical play to the team. There have been ideas tossed around why this was done and the two that make sense to me are: 1. They will try to negotiate a lower price with him because he was due to make over $200K in 2013, or 2. They have someone else in mind to take over at that position for a far cheaper salary. I'm leaning towards the first one because he is a fan favorite, and like Nyarko and Rolfe he really enjoys playing here and loves this city. Moving on here are a few names that I think would help fill our need for depth at certain positions. Now let me point out that I think these would be good for us if we draft them in the second phase of the process because that way the team would be able to negotiate a deal at a lower salary. The only names that stuck out were Ike Opara, Danny Califf, and Maicon Dos Santos. The first two would provide depth and MLS experience at center back. Opara is still young but has had injury problems over the past year but he did show a ton of promise in his rookie season. Califf you know what you're going to get with him. A center back that is very physical and doesn't mind doing the dirty work. The major knock on Califf is that he is 32 but he could provide some experienced back up for Berry and Freidrich. Maicon Dos Santos could provide us with a forward off the banch that is not afraid to shoot. With Oduro coming out and saying he doesn't like playing off the bench there is the possibility that he may be shipped off somewhere else via trade or just cut loose. Santos could be a player that could hellp us out after scoring 7 goals for DC last seaon and only being 28 might be a good utility player as long as the price is not very high. Other than that i don't think there are many other names on that list that the Fire could use(insert Chad Barret joke here). Thats about it for today, look for another post this coming Saturday recapping the first phase of the re-entry draft and some other thoughts of the player movement for the Fire.