It’s a wonder that “what makes half a season of baseball” hasn’t become an endless and unwinnable Twitter argument yet — something in the vein of “is batting around 9 or 10 batters to the plate?” and “is RBI already plural or is it RBIs?” (If it has, please kindly refrain from point it out.) Tradition has it that the two halves of the baseball season are determined by when the All-Star Game is played, not how many games are played before or after, so we’ll go with that.
As the Rockies begin the second half of the 2018 season after having played 96 games, it’s a ripe time to ask about surprises from the first half of the season, as well as expectations for the second half.