MLS has announced its annual end-of-year draft bonanza, most of which can be expected to affect the New York Red Bulls not at all. RBNY is not historically much interested in participating in the Waiver Draft (December 12, this year), or the league’s Re-Entry Drafts (December 14 and 20 in 2018). But there will no avoiding the first and foremost of this year’s drafts: the 2018 Expansion Draft on December 11.
FC Cincinnati joins MLS in 2019. Unlike the league’s last expansion team - LAFC - Cincinnati already exists: the team just completed the best-ever regular season in USL history.