Ryan Howard

Ryan James Howard (twitter: @ryanhoward)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: November 19, 1979 in St. Louis, MO
High School: Lafayette HS (Wildwood, MO)
School: Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 5th round of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed July 2, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 2004
Team: Phillies 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2016, 5 yrs/$125M (12-16) & 17 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.145, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Greg Landry Jennifer Brasile, Casey Close), previously: Jim Turner,Larry Reynolds [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
2004	PHI	NL	24	1B	8	5	5	60.2	65	59	6	0	9	1.000	2	1	30	20	9.64	8.13	.993	9.51	9.44
2005	PHI	NL	25	1B	84	79	75	706.1	752	707	40	5	53	.993	4	11	6	19	9.52	8.89	.993	9.65	9.52	RoY-1
2006	PHI	NL	26	1B	159	157	154	1412.0	1478	1373	91	14	139	.991	2	-9	1	-8	9.33	9.21	.994	9.43	9.36	AS,MVP-1,SS
2007	PHI	NL	27	1B	140	138	132	1241.0	1306	1191	103	12	124	.991	-5	-4	-5	-4	9.38	9.24	.993	9.21	9.17	MVP-5
2007	PHI	NL	27	DH	1	1																		MVP-5
2008	PHI	NL	28	1B	159	156	156	1402.2	1528	1408	101	19	128	.988	9	-4	8	-3	9.68	9.49	.992	9.34	9.28	MVP-2
2008	PHI	NL	28	DH	2	2																		MVP-2
2009	PHI	NL	29	1B	156	155	152	1388.1	1409	1300	95	14	109	.990	9	-4	8	-3	9.04	8.94	.993	9.29	9.21	AS,MVP-3
2009	PHI	NL	29	DH	3	3																		AS,MVP-3
2010	PHI	NL	30	1B	139	140	131	1229.0	1339	1266	59	14	117	.990	-6	-13	-6	-13	9.70	9.53	.993	9.23	9.13	AS,MVP-10
2010	PHI	NL	30	DH	2	2																		AS,MVP-10
2011	PHI	NL	31	1B	149	145	139	1309.0	1361	1282	70	9	110	.993	1	-13	1	-12	9.30	9.07	.994	9.33	9.31	MVP-10
2011	PHI	NL	31	DH	1	1																		MVP-10
	8 Seasons			1B	994	975	944	8749.0	9238	8586	565	87	789	.991	15	-35	2	-4	9.41	9.21	.993	9.34	9.27
	8 Seasons			TOT	994	975	944	8749.0	9238	8586	565	87	789	.991	15	-35	2	-4	9.41	9.21	.993	9.34	9.27

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt
2004	PHI	NL	24	1B	2	30	2	0	1	0	1	20	1
2005	PHI	NL	25	1B	4	6	4	-4	8	0	11	19	12		0
2006	PHI	NL	26	1B	2	1	2	2	0	0	-9	-8	-7		0
2007	PHI	NL	27	1B	-5	-5	-4	-3	-1	-1	-4	-4	-4		1
2008	PHI	NL	28	1B	9	8	9	4	5	0	-4	-3	0		1
2009	PHI	NL	29	1B	9	8	10	8	2	-1	-4	-3	-1	0	-1
2010	PHI	NL	30	1B	-6	-6	-5	2	-7	-1	-13	-13	-11	0	-1
2011	PHI	NL	31	1B	1	1	1	1	0	0	-13	-12	-12	0	1
	8 Seasons			1B	15	2	18	10	8	-3	-35	-4	-22	0	1
	8 Seasons			TOT	15	2	18	10	8	-3	-35	-4	-22	0	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	DH	PH	PR
2004	PHI	NL	24	19	5	19	8	8	0	11	0
2005	PHI	NL	25	88	79	88	84	84	0	8	0
2006	PHI	NL	26	159	157	159	159	159	0	2	0
2007	PHI	NL	27	144	139	144	140	140	1	4	0
2008	PHI	NL	28	162	158	162	159	159	2	4	0
2009	PHI	NL	29	160	158	160	156	156	3	2	0
2010	PHI	NL	30	143	142	143	140	140	2	1	0
2011	PHI	NL	31	152	146	152	149	149	1	4	1
	8 Seasons			1027	984	1027	995	995	9	36	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
2004	PHI	NL	24	244	60%	72%	29%	15	100%	0	59	6	52	1	4	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2	0	0	8	2	1	1	0	0
2005	PHI	NL	25	2981	57%	73%	31%	160	96%	0	707	47	649	11	70	40	31	5	0	2	5	1	4	0	3	53	0	0	0	48	1	5	1	4	6	83%
2006	PHI	NL	26	6155	60%	77%	31%	296	93%	1	1373	89	1257	29	104	91	73	8	0	6	14	4	6	4	8	139	1	3	1	131	5	8	1	7	21	86%
2007	PHI	NL	27	5442	61%	77%	32%	285	93%	1	1191	90	1081	16	78	103	85	9	1	1	12	1	6	5	10	124	4	1	0	118	6	6	5	1	25	96%
2008	PHI	NL	28	6027	59%	76%	32%	345	94%	0	1408	110	1272	27	118	101	77	15	1	4	19	4	10	5	12	128	5	3	0	122	9	6	2	4	13	92%
2009	PHI	NL	29	5961	63%	76%	29%	337	94%	1	1300	104	1171	27	131	95	69	11	2	6	14	3	5	6	8	109	1	2	0	98	3	10	3	7	21	81%
2010	PHI	NL	30	5154	60%	76%	33%	262	91%	1	1266	65	1171	27	121	59	41	9	1	2	14	2	6	6	10	117	2	1	0	113	4	4	1	3	19	84%
2011	PHI	NL	31	5371	61%	74%	33%	292	94%	1	1282	88	1166	25	124	70	51	13	1	2	9	2	5	2	6	109	3	2	2	105	7	4	2	2	27	93%
	8 Seasons			37335	60%	76%	32%	1992	93%	5	8586	599	7819	163	750	565	430	73	6	23	87	17	42	28	57	788	18	12	3	743	37	44	16	28	132	89%
	MLB Averages				58%	76%	32%		94%																											84%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2006 * 2009 * 2010 (DH)	Awards (yr lg award) 2005 NL Rookie of the Year 2006 NL Hank Aaron Award 2006 ML Major League Player of the Year 2006 NL MVP 2009 NL NLCS MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2006 NL (1, 87%) 2007 NL (5, 25%) 2008 NL (2, 69%) 2009 NL (3, 48%) 2010 NL (10, 11%) 2011 NL (10, 9%) 1 MVP 2.49 Career Shares (53rd)	Silver Sluggers 2006 NL (1B)
Putouts† s c a p y 2006 NL 1,373 (1st) 2007 NL 1,191 (5th) 2008 NL 1,408 (1st) 2009 NL 1,300 (4th) 2010 NL 1,266 (4th) 2011 NL 1,282 (4th) Active 8,586 (11th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 2008 NL 19 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 159 (1st) 2008 NL 159 (2nd) 2009 NL 156 (3rd) Active 994 (11th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 1,373 (1st) 2007 NL 1,191 (5th) 2008 NL 1,408 (1st) 2009 NL 1,300 (4th) 2010 NL 1,266 (4th) 2011 NL 1,282 (4th) Active 8,586 (9th)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 91 (5th) 2007 NL 103 (3rd) Active 565 (13th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 14 (2nd) 2007 NL 12 (2nd) 2008 NL 19 (1st) 2009 NL 14 (1st) 2010 NL 14 (1st) 2011 NL 9 (3rd) Active 87 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 2008 NL 9 (4th) 2009 NL 9 (4th) Active 15 (9th) Career 15 (55th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 2008 NL 9.68 (5th) 2010 NL 9.70 (3rd) Active 9.41 (9th) Career 9.41 (77th)
Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 2007 NL 9.24 (4th) 2008 NL 9.49 (4th) 2010 NL 9.53 (2nd) 2011 NL 9.07 (5th) Active 9.21 (3rd)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y Active .991 (21st)	Salary s c a p y 2010 NL $19,000,000 (3rd) 2011 NL $20,000,000 (3rd)

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