The Union have traded goalkeeper Zac MacMath to the Colorado Rapids in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft.
MacMath, 24, was loaned to the Rapids at the start of the 2014 season. If the Rapids wanted to retain the young goalkeeper, however, it would have cost them the second overall pick in the upcoming 2016 MLS SuperDraft. Instead, the club released MacMath back to the Union, who repackaged the player in a separate trade.
MacMath was expected to be released from the Union.
With the inclusion of Rais Mbolhi last season, and with another first-round selection, Andre Blake, remaining on the roster, the Union had little use for MacMath in 2015.
The club will move forward with Blake and John McCarthy in net for 2016.
MacMath was drafted fifth overall in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. And though he was leaned on heavily by the club in three of his four seasons with the Union, he was viewed as mistake-prone and inconsistent. MacMath played in 103 games for the Union, going 34-39-29 over that span. He managed only three starts last season for the Rapids, going 1-2-0.
It's been a busy few days for the Union. Days after the Union traded midfielder Cristian Maidana and Andrew Wenger to the Houston Dynamo for the sixth overall pick in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft, they moved defender Ethan White to New York City FC for a fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft.
