After the league decided to lower the number of development roster spots it was only an amount of time before this draft was too scrapped.

And to be honest it was a smart move on the league’s part as they will soon fill those developmental spots with players out of youth academies in each club before long anyways.

The Supplemental Draft typically only produced one or two decent players over the years. Last year we saw Kheli Dube come out of the second draft to shine for the New England Revolution.

Players that go undrafted in the SuperDraft will be able to try out with whichever club that they choice instead of being possibly picked up in the second draft. I think the USL also got a little gitty today over this news because it means they have access to some quality players out of college now too that they may have not before.

No word yet on if the league will increase the amount of rounds in the SuperDraft or if it will remain a four-round draft. More than likely it will stay like it is.

• LA Galaxy ships striker Carlos Ruiz to Toronto FC for a first and second round pick in the 2009 MLS Supplemental Draft and salary budget considerations.

• The Galaxy also sign veteran midfielder/defender Eddie Lewis.

First off, Ruiz gets dealt for TWO supplemental picks and “budget considerations.” Good lord have the mighty fallen hard. That is just laughable at this point. Toronto gets an absolute steal of a deal really. If anyone comes out on top it has to be Toronto. Even if Ruiz doesn’t produce well while he is there its still a cheaper deal for them considering the lack of talent that comes out of the Supplemental Draft anymore.

LA doesn’t come up short handed though either, I love the addition of Lewis.

So for the last time, who comes out on top here now that we see it all laid out?

Now this is all an extremely early projection. Most of it is based on trades and movement going on right now in the league. We’ve seen a lot of trades go down for players that involved draft picks in the 2009 draft. So expect this order to change a lot in the coming weeks and months. It will help once we know who makes the playoffs and more importantly who plays in the MLS Cup.

As always, if something is wrong or out of place please let me know below in the comments section and I will get it updated right away.

Projected 2009 Superdraft Order

Round One

1 Seattle Sounders FC
2 Toronto FC
3 DC United
4 New York Red Bulls
5 FC Dallas
6 Los Angeles Galaxy
7 Kansas City Wizards
8 Toronto FC
9 FC Dallas
10 DC United
11 Toronto FC
12 CD Chivas USA
13 New England Revolution
14 Real Salt Lake
15 New England Revolution

Round Two

16 Seattle Sounders FC
17 San Jose Earthquakes
18 Kansas City Wizards
19 New York Red Bulls
20 Colorado Rapids
21 FC Dallas
22 Kansas City Wizards
23 Toronto FC
24 DC United
25 DC United
26 Chicago Fire
27 New England Revolution
28 Columbus Crew
29 FC Dallas
30 New England Revolution

Round Three

31 Seattle Sounders FC
32 San Jose Earthquakes
33 Colorado Rapids
34 New York Red Bulls
35 Colorado Rapids
36 Los Angeles Galaxy
37 Kansas City Wizards
38 Toronto FC
39 Houston Dynamo
40 DC United
41 Chicago Fire
42 Toronto FC
43 Columbus Crew
44 Kansas City Wizards
45 New England Revolution

Round Four

46 Seattle Sounders FC
47 San Jose Earthquakes
48 Chicago Fire
49 New York Red Bulls
50 Kansas City Wizards
51 Los Angeles Galaxy
52 Kansas City Wizards
53 Los Angeles Galaxy
54 Houston Dynamo
55 DC United
56 Chicago Fire
57 CD Chivas USA
58 Columbus Crew
59 Real Salt Lake
60 New England Revolution

Trade/Pick Movement List

Round 1
Dallas has Houston’s pick (via SJ, Alvarez trade)
DC has Colorado’s pick (Gomez trade)
San Jose has Houston’s pick (Kamara trade, later traded to DAL)
Toronto has San Jose’s pick (O’Brien trade)
Toronto has Chicago’s pick (McBride trade)
NE has Columbus’s pick (Noonan trade)

Round 2
Colorado has Dallas’s pick (Guarda trade)
Dallas has RSL’s pick (Cassar compensation)
Dallas has LA’s pick (Ruiz trade)
DC has Houston’s pick (Boswell trade, pick is conditional)
KC has Colorado’s pick (Burciaga trade)
LA has Chivas’s pick (Thomas trade, later traded to NE)
NE has Chivas’s pick (via LA, Franchino trade)

Round 3

Colorado has Dallas’s pick (Guarda trade)
Dallas has Chivas’s pick (Nunez trade)
KC has RSL’s pick (Movsisyan trade)
Toronto has Dallas’s pick (Cunningham trade)

Round 4

Chicago has Colorado’s pick (Sanneh trade)
Colorado has San Jose’s pick (Gray/Kirovski trade)
LA has Toronto’s pick (Harmse trade)
KC has Dallas’s pick (international slot trade)

Conditional Picks

Chivas has Toronto’s pick (Guevara trade)
Colorado has NY’s pick (Mathis trade)

Total picks

Chicago 4 picks
Chivas 2 picks
Columbus 4 picks
Colorado 4 picks
Dallas 5 picks
DC 6 picks
Houston 2 picks
KC 7 picks
LA 4 picks
NE 5 picks
NY 4 picks
RSL 2 picks
Seattle 4 picks
San Jose 2 picks
Toronto 5 picks

Supplemental Draft

Columbus has Dalals’s 1st round pick (international slot trade)
Toronto has DC’s 1st round pick (Zaher trade)
KC has RSL’s 1st round pick (Movsisyan trade)
Colorado has RSL’s 2nd round pick (Wingert trade)
Colorado has Columbus’s 3rd round pick (Hernandez trade)
Dallas has San Jose’s 3rd round pick (Roberts trade)
LA has San Jose’s 4th round pick (Hatzke trade)
NY has RSL’s 4th round pick (Rimando trade)