- The Rapids extended the international spot they traded Vancouver last offseason from 2014 through 2016 in return for Atiba Harris.
Ugh. Harris is a 27 year old St. Kitts and Nevis striker who's bounced around the league for 7 seasons and 4 teams. He has a green card so he doesn't take up an international spot. In 138 appearances (107 starts) he has 17 goals, 19 assists, 40 yellow cards, and 2 red cards. You read that right, he has more cards than he has goals and assists. To compare, Casey had 121 appearances, 101 starts, 50 goals, 16 assists, 29 yellow cards, and 2 red.
He made $160K last year and you have to assume he'll get a similar number in 2013. To me, this was a bad move. Harris is nothing more than a backup you bring in when you need to get physical. He's overpaid at $160K, and burning an international slot, even one in 3 years, is a waste.
- Colorado declines options on defenders Hunter Freeman and Marvell Wynne and midfielder Jamie Smith, they are re-negotiating with all 3.
Big roll of the dice here. Players have until Thursday night to remove their names from Friday's Re-Entry Draft. If they don't any team can pick them up for the amount of their current option. I can't imagine somebody wouldn't jump all over Wynne is he's available so the Rapids must be pretty confident that they'll be close enough to a deal in the next 72 hours that Wynne won't be exposed. I don't see Smith or Freeman being picked at their current number, so they have an extra week to get deals done with them before the 2nd half of the Re-Entry Draft, where teams can claim players and offer them new lower deals.
At the moment the Rapids only have 3 defenders under contract for next season. Drew Moor, Anthony Wallace (who's played a total of 10 games in the last two seasons), and Chris Klute (who's on loan from Atlanta until late September). That's not good.
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