The Colorado Rockies’ 2024 season has been a slog from the start. The team holds a 42-73 record and a .365 W-L% – highlighted by horrendous results in April and June where they combined to go 13-39 with a negative-123 run differential in those 52 games.
It was a bad first half. Losing 65% of the time bad. But the second half has been measurably better. Playing near-.500 ball in 18 games, Colorado is looking much more like a fairly respectable club as the season ticks into the dog days of August.
A large part of that resurgence can be attributed to the advancement of a few emerging core pieces.