The first additions to Sporting Kansas City’s roster this offseason will be familiar to MLS.
Sporting KC signed league veteran Rodney Wallace to a one-year contract on Friday. And according to sources, the club agreed to trade a pair of draft picks to Vancouver in exchange for forward Erik Hurtado, who has been with the Whitecaps since they selected him with the fifth overall pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft. To acquire Hurtado, Sporting KC relinquished a second-round selection in 2020 and its first-round pick in 2021.
In what’s likely to be a quiet winter for Sporting KC — relative to its past two — it’s the most significant moves the team has made since losing to Portland in the MLS Western Conference Finals last month.