SEATTLE — When a team wins its season opener 4-0, there are going to be a ton of positive angles. There were no shortage of them from the Seattle Sounders on Sunday, from João Paulo’s return to Nicolás Lodeiro’s fitness to Héber’s quality to etc., etc., etc.
But for my money, the performance I was most encouraged by was Jordan Morris’s.
All of those other players are important, but I also tend to think that their possible ranges of outcome in 2023 are a bit contained. We know what kind of impact João Paulo, Lodeiro and Héber are likely to have on this team, and to some degree those are baked into our expectations.