What is the story about?
Despite it feeling as though May just ended, the calendar has already flipped to July. The Rockies were able to rebound from an all around poor 8-20 May with an 11-15 record in June.
This improvement was fueled by an incredible spike in their team wide offensive output. They went from 21st in the league in runs scored for May up to 5th in June. The pitching side of the equation still leaves some room for improvement but the lineup has provided a ton of potential candidates for Rockie of the month!
- Cole Carrigg (No. 4 PuRP) made his Major League debut and immediately cemented himself as regular in the lineup with his incredible arm and 122 wRC+.
- Edouard Julien bounced back after a poor May to post an 18.8% walk rate while batting .288.
- Ryan Feltner, back from early-season injury, had a 4.00 ERA while pitching the second-most innings on the team in June.
- Hunter Goodman hit 13 home runs, good for the second-most any Rockie has ever had in a single month.
- Jake McCarthy led the team in stolen bases (3) while batting .326 over 97 plate appearances.
- Kyle Freeland set the franchise record for innings pitched and passed the one thousand career strikeouts mark while leading the team in pitching fWAR (0.7) for the month.
- Kyle Karros had the best stretch of his MLB career so far with a slash line of .357/.444/.586 while playing his usual stellar third base defense.
- TJ Rumfield continued his attempt to earn National League Rookie of the Year with five home runs and a .400 On-Base Percentage.
- Troy Johnston walked more than he stuck out and batted .319.
- Willi Castro did a little bit of everything with four home runs, two steals, a .292 average while playing six(!) different defensive positions.
From that crowded field of potential candidates, who gets your vote for the Rockies player of June?
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