So much happens in baseball in July -- some of it obvious, some more under the hood.
You know the obvious stuff. The All-Star Weekend, the break in the regular season that goes with it and the Midsummer Classic itself. There's the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. And then there is the trade deadline and the flurry of moves teams make leading up to it.
From a projection standpoint, though, simply passing the midpoint of the schedule is significant. What you know about a team now is based much less on preseason forecasts and more on what that team has shown us to date.