Editing 2004 MLS expansion draft (section)

===D.C. United===
{| class="wikitable"
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Exposed
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Protected
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Exempt
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|[[Kevin Ara]] (M)||[[Brian Carroll]] (M)||[[David Stokes (soccer)|David Stokes]] (D)
|-
|[[Ezra Hendrickson]] (D)||[[Joshua Gros]] (M)||[[Jason Thompson (soccer)|Jason Thompson]] (F)
|-
|Tim Lawson (M)||[[Brandon Prideaux]] (D)||[[Nana Kuffour]] (M)
|-
|[[Thiago Martins (footballer, born 1976)|Thiago Martins]] (F)||[[Nick Rimando]] (GK)||[[Freddy Adu]] (M)
|-
|[[Ryan Nelsen]] (D)||[[Alecko Eskandarian]] (F)||
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|[[Troy Perkins]] (GK)||[[Mike Petke]] (D)||
|-
|[[Eliseo Quintanilla]] (M)||[[Christian Gómez]] (M)||
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|[[Earnie Stewart]] (M)||[[Ben Olsen]] (M)||
|-
|||[[Dema Kovalenko]] (M)||
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|||[[Santino Quaranta]] (F)||
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|||[[Bryan Namoff]] (D)||
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|||[[Jaime Moreno (footballer, born 1974)|Jaime Moreno]] (F)||
|}

*Withdrew [[Ryan Nelsen]] upon selection of [[Ezra Hendrickson]] (5)
*Withdrew [[Troy Perkins]] upon selection of [[Thiago Martins (footballer, born 1976)|Thiago Martins]] (17)
*Reached maximum upon selection of [[Kevin Ara]] (18)