Top Forwards in MLS

Today we are looking at the top Forwards in MLS in continuation with all the other positions that I have evaluated over the last week or so. I did it before last weekend's games, but that only matters in specific stats. The overall rank of players aren't going to change much because I take the rank of the player based on WhoScored.com's measurement against my own here at Helltown.

Here the are, the best Forwards in MLS 2019:

29: Median Age of these guys
$2.0 million: Median salary

	Name(2)	BIRTHPLACE	Team	Age	Salary
1	Carlos Vela	Cancun, Mexico	LAF	30	$6,300,000
2	Diego Rossi	Montevideo, Uruguay	LAF	21	$1,052,000
3	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	Malmo, Sweden	LAG	38	$7,200,000
4	Josef Martínez	Valencia, Venezuela	ATL	26	$3,058,333
5	Wayne Rooney	Liverpool, England	DC	34	$3,507,500
6	Carles Gil	Valencia, Spain	NER	27	$2,337,500
7	Latif Blessing	Accra, Ghana	LAF	23	$103,125
8	Kacper Przybylko	Bielefeld, Germany	PHI	26	$277,000
9	Darwin Quintero	Tumaco, Colombia	MIN	32	$1,750,000
10	Kei Kamara	Kenema, Sierra Leone	COL	35	$750,000

If you are in the MLS orbit, you probably recognize most of these names. Well, I take that back. You probably don't know Elis, Blessing, Castellanos, Heber or Savarino. I wrote about Carles Gil before the season started and it looks like he is paying off for New England this year.

Here are the WhoScored player ratings, sorted:

WS	Name(2)	Team
8.50	Carlos Vela	LAF
7.71	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	LAG
7.49	Kacper Przybylko	PHI
7.44	Diego Rossi	LAF
7.42	Wayne Rooney	DC
7.40	Josef Martínez	ATL
7.37	Alberth Elis	HOU
7.35	Carles Gil	NER
7.30	Kei Kamara	COL
7.30	Johnny Russell	SKC
7.24	Latif Blessing	LAF
7.21	Jefferson Savarino	RSL
7.19	Darwin Quintero	MIN
7.15	Araújo Héber	NYCFC
7.07	Alexandru Mitrita	NYCFC
7.02	Jordan Morris	SEA
7.01	C.J. Sapong	CHI
7.00	Valentin Castellanos	NYCFC
6.93	Mauro Manotas	HOU

As mentioned in one of my other posts on this top player stuff, Rooney is loved by modern measurements because he does loads of stuff in the midfield.

Lastly, Rossi should be mentioned somewhere in there - so Diego Rossi.