Sporting Kansas City has made several moves recently and despite returning the core of the roster, they could have a bit of new look in 2019. Rodney Wallace was signed as a free agent, Erik Hurtado was acquired for draft picks and Hungarian defender Botond Barath was signed. The move that was biggest surprise was sending Diego Rubio to Colorado in exchange for Kelyn Rowe and $300,000 in allocation money.
The other “surprise” you could say is that this was all done before Christmas after Sporting KC just dropped out of play at the end of November.