If you had told most RSL fans at the beginning of the 2018 season that Corey Baird would not only play 31 matches, with 21 of those being starts, but that he also would score 8 goals, have 5 assists and become RSL’s first ever rookie of the year, very few would have believed you.
At the beginning of the season, no one expected Baird to be our striker. Most people assumed it’d be Alfredo Ortuno and Albert Rusnak scoring the goals. Well, when that whole Alfredo thing kind of failed, it left the opportunity wide open to Baird.