Last year in Major League Soccer, four teams who did not make the playoffs in 2018 competed in the postseason: Toronto FC and the New England Revolution in the East, and the LA Galaxy and Minnesota United in the West.
Given that teams can improve and regress from year to year, — and even within years — there will be teams who did not make the playoffs in 2019 that will make the jump in 2020.
So, in the name of hopeless predictions before the season gets underway, here are three non-playoff teams in 2019 that I think will make the jump in 2020.