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Per the team, the list of protected players for Wednesday's Expansion Draft are:
Steve Birnbaum
Bobby Boswell
Nick DeLeon
Fabian Espindola
Sean Franklin
Bill Hamid
Taylor Kemp
Perry Kitchen
Chris Pontius
Chris Rolfe
Luis Silva
So by (admittedly hasty) process of elimination, Orlando City SC and NYCFC can choose from the following under contract players:
Davy Arnaud
Conor Doyle
Andrew Driver
Andrew Dykstra
David Estrada
Jared Jeffrey
Eddie Johnson
Chris Korb
Thomas McNamara
Lewis Neal
Kofi Opare
This obviously does not include homegrown players Collin Martin, Jalen Robinson or Michael Seaton, nor does this include Nana Attakora, Alex Caskey, Jeff Parke, Kyle Porter and Conor Shanosky, whom the team declined options on earlier today and will be unprotected.
So...that about right? Thoughts?