Dave Kasper has long been the master of finding MLS veterans who had fallen out of favor but who could still contribute. Or finding under-valued draft picks who could contribute to an MLS team. Or swinging trades and mastering every player acquisition mechanism to pull value out of nowhere.
However, for the past year and a half, Dave Kasper has been faced with a new task: building a top tier MLS team, now with some of the resources that the best teams in the league have. It is a starkly different task than the one with which he has dealt for the past decade, and he started with a very good table setter in 2017, signing Paul Arriola, Russell Canouse, and Zoltan Stieber.