With a team that was overwhelmingly the same as last year, with only one significant foreign signing and a raft of Homegrown and Super Draft signings, there was precious little to surprise Rapids fans about the release of 2017 MLS salaries that came out Tuesday from the MLS Players Union. Still, it gives us at Burgundy Wave a moment to reflect on the composition of the 2017 roster, and whether individual players are providing relative bang for their buck.
We’ll do this by breaking it down into three sections: ‘bargains’, ‘sunk costs’, and ‘things of note’.