{"id":124028,"date":"2025-08-06T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:24:12","slug":"san-diego-fc-acquire-corey-baird-from-fc-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124028\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC acquire Corey Baird from FC Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong> Trade<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SD receive:<\/strong> Corey Baird<\/li>\n<li><strong>CIN receive:<\/strong> Up to $100k GAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego FC<\/a> have acquired forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/corey-baird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corey Baird<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-cincinnati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FC Cincinnati<\/a> via an intra-league trade, the clubs announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the 29-year-old former US international, Cincy receive up to $100,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM). The funds break down as $50k guaranteed in 2025 GAM and $50k conditional in 2026 GAM.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Cincy retain a portion of Baird&#8217;s salary budget charge this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to add an experienced player like Corey to our team,&#8221; said San Diego sporting director Tyler Heaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re confident that Corey\u2019s versatility, work rate, and professionalism will be a valuable addition to our roster. He\u2019s proven he can have success in this league, and we\u2019re excited to welcome him back to San Diego.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baird has 31 goals in 201 regular-season appearances across stints with Cincy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/houston-dynamo-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Dynamo FC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAFC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/real-salt-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Salt Lake<\/a>. San Diego will be the 2018 MLS Rookie of the Year&#8217;s fifth MLS team.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Baird has four caps with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USMNT<\/a>. He last featured in a November 2019 friendly vs. Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leagues Cup<\/a> break, San Diego are on pace for the best expansion season in MLS history. They lead the Western Conference with 46 points.<\/p>\n<p>Cincy are chasing their second Supporters&#8217; Shield title in three seasons. They&#8217;re second in the Eastern Conference and league standings with 49 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MLS Transfer Tracker presented by Avant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Trade SD receive: Corey Baird CIN receive: Up to $100k GAM San Diego FC have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,76501,61112,3549,15520,7264,37638,41877,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-124028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-corey-baird","12":"tag-fc-cincinnati","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-fc","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sendtonews","17":"tag-transfer-tracker","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114982752322343121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}