Top Center Backs in MLS

[Season start - July 26, 2019 - I round ages]

Here are the best Center Backs in MLS based on my own Helltown player ratings and WhoScored (average rank between the two systems).

	Name(2)	BIRTHPLACE	Team	Age	Salary
1	Walker Zimmerman	Lawrenceville, Georgia	LAF	26	$600,000
2	Miles Robinson	Arlington, Massachusetts	ATL	22	$201,250
3	Maxime Chanot	Nancy, France	NYCFC	30	$650,000
4	Ike Opara	Durham, North Carolina	MIN	30	$367,917
5	Daniel Steres	Burbank, California	LAG	29	$155,500
6	Leandro González Pírez	Buenos Aires, Argentina	ATL	27	$810,008
7	Jack Elliott	London, England	PHI	24	$265,000
8	Auston Trusty	Media, Pennsylvania	PHI	21	$124,100
9	Steve Birnbaum	Newport, California	DC	29	$550,000
10	Frederic Brillant	Sedan, France	DC	34	$300,000
11	Florian Jungwirth	Grafelfing, West Germany	SJE	31	$616,675
12	Diego Polenta	Montevideo, Uruguay	LAG	28	$777,276
13	Eddie Segura	Pereira, Colombia	LAF	23	$212,000
14	Matt Hedges	Rochester, New York	FCD	29	$575,008
15	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Kolbermoor, West Germany	CHI	35	$5,600,000
16	James Sands	Rye, New York	NYCFC	19	$105,000
17	Amro Tarek	Los Angeles, California	NYR	27	$156,250
18	Keegan Rosenberry	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	COL	26	$164,945
19	Alex Callens	Callao, Peru	NYCFC	27	$664,000
20	Michael Boxall	Auckland, New Zealand	MIN	31	$317,333

28: Median Age of top 20 CBs in MLS
$342k: Median Salary of top 20 CBs in MLS

CALL OUTS

Walker Zimmerman, 26, LAFC
In the right place at the right time in his career. I'm not sure if I see him making a big move overseas at this point, but he'll likely be winning a few trophies.

Maynor Figueroa, 36, HOU (ranked 25, not listed):
He has been in MLS since 2015 (FC Dallas, Houston) and is a steal, at least according to published wage data. WhoScored doesn't necessarily rate him (they love lots of activity, something CBs don't have as much as, say, mids).

Donovan Pines, 21, DC (ranked 24, not listed):
The highest-rated WhoScored CB is playing for DC and is only 21. If you are looking him up, join the club. I had to as well.

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Outside of those two you have a bunch of players performing like they should. Notable is Ike Opara (excellent pickup by MIN), Walker Zimmerman, Auston Trusty, Miles Robinson.

 Here's how WhoScored has them:

WS	Name(2)	Team
7.17	Donovan Pines	DC
7.11	Ike Opara	MIN
7.09	Francisco Calvo	CHI
7.05	Miles Robinson	ATL
7.04	Walker Zimmerman	LAF
7.03	Maxime Chanot	NYCFC
6.98	Leandro González Pírez	ATL
6.97	Francisco Calvo	CHI
6.95	Florian Jungwirth	SJE
6.90	Frederic Brillant	DC
6.90	Amro Tarek	NYR
6.89	Steve Birnbaum	DC
6.88	Diego Polenta	LAG
6.87	Bastian Schweinsteiger	CHI
6.87	Matheus Bressan	FCD
6.84	Aaron Long	NYR
6.83	Matt Hedges	FCD
6.79	Lamine Sané	ORL
6.78	Maynor Figueroa	HOU
6.70	Zakaria Diallo	MTL

Here are my other TOP IN MLS lists, so far:

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