Rapids History By The Numbers: #29 & #30

Before we get started, a slight update from the tournament.  Based on pictures the Rapids have posted and other sources it appears that every player, other than Kortne Ford (ongoing knee injury) and those already loaned out to USL sides, is in Florida.

Now, on to today's lists.  We're starting to crape the bottom of the barrel as we exit the 20's and get into numbers that aren't used very much.  First the group at 29:

Scott Garlick (2002)
Scott Palguta (2009-2012)
Kory Kindle (2013)
Caleb Calvert (2015-2018)
Matt Hundley (2019-2020)

Kindle never played in a league match and Hundley hasn't yet, so we can eliminate them.  Calvert only make 4 starts in his time, and averaged 20-30 minutes in most of his sub appearances.  Garlick started 15 games that year with a goals against average of 1.6, 8th of the 10 keepers who played 15 or more games that season (9th was Tim Howard of all people).  Which brings us to Scott Palguta.  While Palguta was never more than a replacement level player he did get 30 starts and 50 appearances in his four season here (and won MLS Cup), more than everyone else on the list combined.  He appeared in half of the games in our Cup winning season (though he only started 5, and had no playoff appearances).  While that's not great, its the best to wear 29.

Now we're into the 30s with a rather infamous list:

Zizi Roberts (2003-2004)
Amir Lowery (2005)
Thiago Martins (2006)
Gabriel Torres (2013)
Abe Rodriguez (2020)

Now I think in a few years Rodriguez will be the obvious choice, but he hasn't played yet.  Lowry had a grand total of one appearance.  So that leaves us with three somewhat infamous forwards.  To break them down:

Roberts: 17 appearances, 12 starts, 1091 minutes, 6 goals
Martins: 25 appearances, 14 starts, 1390 minutes, 3 goals, 4 assists
Torres (2013 only): 7 appearances, 5 starts, 507 minutes, 3 goals, 1 assist

To be fair to Torres, he was signed with only 9 games left in 2013 and the only two games he missed were due to National Team duty.

These three are actually remarkably close.  Roberts had roughly double the minutes and double the goals of Torres.  Martins didn't have as many goals but did rack up a few assists.  In the end I'm going to go with Torres for doing as much as he did in as little time as he had in 2013.  Too bad after that he decided he liked the training table buffet more than playing.