Major League Soccer is a bizarre but awesome league with its twisting, byzantine rules, silly money that gets traded around for this and that, and numerous drafts. We just had an Expansion draft for the fledgling Los Angeles FC. Today, the next piece in the offseason puzzle unfolds with the Waiver Draft. Here’s its purpose, courtesy of MLSSoccer:
The Waiver Draft consists of players who have been waived by their clubs but don’t meet the minimum years of service requirement for the Re-Entry Draft or Free Agency — so mostly young players who are relatively new to MLS.