After 17 games, we’ve reached the exact midway-point to the MLS season for the Colorado Rapids in what has been an eventful and strange year. It’s a great time to hand out some metaphorical hardware to the deserving players — good and bad.
Midseason Awards
Best Addition
The Candidates: Keegan Rosenberry, Lalas Abubakar, Kei Kamara, Nicolas Mezquida
The Winner: Lalas Abubakar
The Rapids added 11 players to the first-team roster in 2019 by every means available: the SuperDraft (Andre Shinyashiki), free agency (Benny Feilhaber) trade (Nicolas Mezquida, Kei Kamara, Keegan Rosenberry, Diego Rubio, and Jonathan Lewis), loan (Lalas Abubakar) and homegrown signing (Sebastian Anderson).