One of the massive concerns in the first half of the season for the Rockies has been the tepid offense. A main component of that power outage is Ian Desmond, who started his 2018 season with an abysmal showing at the plate. Through the end of May, Ian Desmond had a slash line of .196/.248/.387, and he was striking out in 25.7% of his plate appearances, while walking only 5.2% of the time. It was bad.
While the horrendous April gave way to improvements in May, a lot of Rockies fans were still unconvinced that Desmond could be a net positive at the plate.