YNT-Eligible MLS Players, 2025 In-Season Thread

Really good performance from Raines tonight. Dynamo got a 2-0 win and Raines will stay in the XI with how he’s been playing

 

great day for the youth players in both MLS and USL, would of been great to be topped off by a pierre/vazquez sighting when philly were up 3 nil but its whatever

 

Was glad to see Raines do so well. Houston has been a team I’ve had no interest in for a long time.

Last 2 games Miller on NE has shown how good he can be. He’s got some things to work on but he’s definitely earned a consistent starting spot at LB which will need cover in the future for Robinson and after when he ages out.

 

Alex Freeman has 3 goals 1 assist already

 

I really like him as a player, it’s too bad that he is four months too old for any YNT duty

He has a big upside

 

Miami hosting FC Dallas

Benja Cremaschi starting for Miami

Nolan Norris starting for Dallas

I think both will be on the US team in Chile this fall

 

Many young players at FB will make the overlapping runs and put crosses into the box but they are content w/ being additional pieces around star players. I like how aggressive offensively both Miller and Freeman are from the FB positions. Both seem to want to BE star players.

 

Freeman’s game is so interesting because there are times he’ll play like an extra striker, and he has the frame and skill for it.

I think he should get an exploratory look at the Gold Cup just because there isn’t another player in the pool who can play the position like he does.

 

MLS Youth Player Minutes Update:

Sergio Oregel, Chicago Fire FC ('05 - USA): 816 mins
Obed Vargas, Seattle Sounders FC ('05 - USA): 787 mins
Francis Westfield, Philadelphia Union ('05 - USA): 770 mins
Jonathan Shore, New York City FC ('07 - USA): 657 mins
Benjamin Cremaschi, Inter Miami CF ('05 - USA): 602 mins
Jacob Bartlett, Sporting Kansas City ('05 - USA): 582 mins
Tate Johnson, Vancouver Whitecaps FC ('05 - USA): 578 mins
Aleksandr Guboglo, CF Montréal ('07 - Haiti): 515 mins
David Martínez, Los Angeles FC ('06 - Venezuela): 511 mins
Nolan Norris, FC Dallas ('05 - USA): 415 mins
Peyton Miller, New England Revolution ('07 - USA): 389 mins
Kaick, FC Dallas ('05 - Brazil): 321 mins
Leonardo Barroso, Chicago Fire FC ('05 - Portugal): 309 mins
Serge Ngoma, New York Red Bulls ('05 - USA): 305 mins
Brooklyn Raines, Houston Dynamo FC ('05 - USA): 295 mins
Noah Cobb, Atlanta United FC ('05 - USA): 293 mins
Niko Tsakiris, San Jose Earthquakes ('05 - USA): 272 mins
Harbor Miller, LA Galaxy ('07 - USA): 271 mins
Luca Bombino, San Diego FC ('06 - USA): 264 mins
Sam Williams, Chicago Fire FC ('05 - USA): 263 mins
Zavier Gozo, Real Salt Lake ('07 - USA): 209 mins
Andrew Rick, Philadelphia Union ('06 - USA): 199 mins
Julian Hall, New York Red Bulls ('08 - USA): 170 mins
Jeevan Badwal, Vancouver Whitecaps FC ('06 - Canada): 159 mins
Matthew Corcoran, Nashville SC ('06 - USA): 158 mins
Hennadiy Synchuk, CF Montréal ('06 - Ukraine): 124 mins
Allen Obando, Inter Miami CF ('06 - Ecuador): 104 mins
Adam Beaudry, Colorado Rapids ('06 - USA): 96 mins
Lazar Stefanovic, Toronto FC ('06 - USA): 77 mins
Rubén Ramos Jr., LA Galaxy ('07 - USA): 73 mins
Dominik Chong Qui, Atlanta United FC ('07 - USA): 70 mins
Liam Mackenzie, Vancouver Whitecaps FC ('07 - Canada): 69 mins
Cavan Sullivan, Philadelphia Union ('09 - USA): 62 mins
Mykhi Joyner, St. Louis City SC ('06 - USA): 60 mins
Taha Habroune, Columbus Crew ('06 - USA): 51 mins
Owen Graham-Roache, CF Montréal ('08 - Canada): 49 mins
Noel Buck, New England Revolution ('05 - USA): 41 mins
Reed Baker-Whiting, Seattle Sounders FC ('05 - USA): 38 mins
Adrian Wibowo, Los Angeles FC ('06 - USA): 36 mins
Santiago Morales, Inter Miami CF ('07 - USA): 31 mins
Gustavo Caraballo, Orlando City SC ('08 - USA): 30 mins
Cole Mrowka, Columbus Crew ('06 - USA): 29 mins
Fidel Barajas, D.C. United ('06 - USA): 28 mins
Bibi Karamoko, D.C. United ('05 - USA): 25 mins
Chris Applewhite, Nashville SC ('07 - USA): 23 mins
Seymour Reid, New York City FC ('08 - Jamaica): 22 mins
Tristan Brown, Columbus Crew ('07 - USA): 22 mins
Maximo Carrizo, New York City FC ('08 - USA): 22 mins
Christopher Cupps, Chicago Fire FC ('08 - USA): 18 mins
Colin Guske, Orlando City SC ('07 - USA): 16 mins
Anisse Saidi, San Diego FC ('08 - USA): 16 mins
Andy Batioja, Houston Dynamo FC ('06 - Colombia): 14 mins
Zakaria Taifi, Orlando City SC ('05 - USA): 12 mins
Oscar Verhoeven, San Jose Earthquakes ('06 - USA): 11 mins
Stefan Chirila, FC Cincinnati ('07 - USA): 11 mins
Tarik Scott, FC Dallas ('05 - USA): 9 mins
Luke Brennan, Atlanta United FC ('05 - USA): 9 mins
Kimani Stewart-Baynes, Colorado Rapids ('05 - Canada): 7 mins
Alex Harris, Colorado Rapids ('05 - USA): 5 mins

 

Shouldn't Vargas be listed as (Mexico)? Makes me wonder how many others on the list have dual citizenship and have chosen their alternative but are still listed as (USA).?.?

 

Probably - this is just the Opta list

 

There are a lot of 2005s suddenly starting regular in MLS with little to none YNT caps or previous MLS minutes. That speaks well of MLS academy scouting and development.

 

Other than Gozo going the full 90min who should have had an assist there wasn’t a whole lot going on. Of course the usuals like Shore and Miller got starts.

 

Also, though he didn't draw (and shouldn't have drawn) a PK a bit later in the game, I like the aggression in the box on that sequence to try to make a play in a spot where some guys might have laid it off.

 

I thought he looked pretty good. I hope he gets more time in the near future. Between him, Luna and Eneli RSL have become one of the more intriguing MLS teams to watch from a USMNT perspective.

 

16-year-old Cupps went 90' at CB for the Fire and they held a clean sheet despite going down a man in the 37th minute. He became the youngest Fire player to make a start and he did it at a position that usually takes a lot of extra seasoning before a coach will trust them.

 

Brady did end up getting the red card because Cupps let McGuire get behind him. Still, Brady should have stayed home.

 

I felt like Cupps made a mistake with judging that ball, but I felt the whole sequence reflected too harsh because a red card was shown. The ball was bouncing high, McGuire had no control of it, he was looking into the sky trying to find it when he was fouled, and Cupps was a foot away with the leverage (running forward while McGuire was off balance trying to find the ball out of the sky). There's no way that's DGSO. It should've just been a tactical foul (probably yellow), and move on.

Except, the collision looks bad and McGuire rolls around on the ground, so the ref gives a red. Then that'll appear like Cupps caused his teammate to take a red, but it was really just a bad call. No one would make a big deal over that one play (which was a negative for sure) if the referee simply made the right call and his teammate merely had to take a tactical yellow for his minor mistake.

2023 "MLS Referee of the Year" somehow.

 

I thought it was a deserved red, but not Cupps fault. Just a dumb, unnecessary play by Brady.

 

How specifically is that a red?

Framed another way, what do you disagree with about my explanation of why it isn't a red?

 

If Brady hadn't put his knee into McGuire's chest, he was past him with open net. Brady also took Cupps out of the play so I don't think you can count him as being a goalside defender (besides, he wasn't goalside). You can argue that Cupps had it covered, but Brady's postioning and recklessness makes it a weak argument, in my opinion.

If it was in the box, I'd have agreed with yellow.

 

Bingo.

 

Yes, if Brady was in position it wouldn’t be DOGSO but since he was out of position and the net was wide open if he didn’t take McGuire out, I think it’s DOGSO.