Top Left Mids in MLS

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

Somewhat bizarrely, Left mids in MLS are a hot commodity. Their average salary is second only to Forwards and tops even those of top cental mids. The reason is likely simple. Left footed mids can whip the ball into right foot dominate forwards. I wish there were more to it than that, but there likely isn't. Anyhow:

29: Median Age of top LM's in MLS
$1.2m: Median salary

	Name(2)	BIRTHPLACE	Team	Age	Salary
1	Maximiliano Moralez	Granadero Baigorria, Argentina	NYC	32	$2,000,000
2	Sebastián Blanco	Buenos Aires, Argentina	PDX	31	$1,375,008
3	Lucas Rodríguez	Buenos Aires, Argentina	DC	22	$298,550
4	Nani	Praia, Cape Verde	ORL	33	$2,486,250
5	Aleksandar Katai	Srbobran, Yugoslavia	CHI	29	$1,380,333
6	Vako	Ozurgeti, Georgia	SJE	27	$1,604,042
7	Daniel Royer	Schladming, Austria	NYR	29	$768,750
8	Memo Rodriguez	Wharton, Texas	HOU	24	$82,750
9	Uriel Antuna	Gomez Palacio, Mexico	LAG	22	$420,000
10	Víctor Rodríguez	Barcelona, Spain	SEA	30	$1,087,500

There seems to be a wide range of ages and nationalities and wages on this list (outside of Argentina's top 3), which kinda confirms the ends that teams go to find a good crosser of the ball.

The disparity in salary tells us that this position needs a lot of work in MLS. In this top 10 you can go from a player making $83k to over $2 million.

Here's how WhoScored has the ratings:

WS	Name(2)	Team
7.38	Maximiliano Moralez	NYC
7.31	Nani	ORL
7.23	Sebastián Blanco	PDX
7.23	Vako	SJE
7.21	Aleksandar Katai	CHI
7.15	Memo Rodriguez	HOU
7.11	Ignacio Piatti	MTL
7.10	Lucas Rodríguez	DC
7.00	Kevin Molino	MIN
6.95	Daniel Royer	NYR
6.93	Víctor Rodríguez	SEA
6.91	David Accam	CLB
6.87	Justin Meram	ATL

Not that both Accam and Meram make an appearance on this list. Columbus had both at one point, but somehow saw that as a position that needed an upgrade. In fact, they still do because they are shipping Accam away after the season.

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

FORWARDs
CENTRAL MIDFIELD
RIGHT MIDFIELD
LEFT BACKS
CENTER BACKS
RIGHT BACKS