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Ryan Howard

Ryan James Howard (Big Piece) (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 (Age 24)
Team: Phillies 2004-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2016, 5 yrs/$125M (12-16) & 17 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 7.145, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Greg Landry Jennifer Brasile, Casey Close), previously: Jim Turner,Larry Reynolds [*]
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All-Time Rank (among batters): #717. Deacon McGuire… #718. Ron LeFlore… #719. Billy Rogell… #720. RYAN HOWARD… #721. Dan Uggla… #722. Charles Johnson… #723. Pat Burrell… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2004 24 PHI NL 19 42 39 5 11 5 0 2 5 0 0 2 13 .282 .333 .564 .897 122 22 2 1 0 0 0 /3
2005 25 PHI NL 88 348 312 52 90 17 2 22 63 0 1 33 100 .288 .356 .567 .924 133 177 6 1 0 2 8 3 RoY-1
2006 26 PHI NL 159 704 581 104 182 25 1 58 149 0 0 108 181 .313 .425 .659 1.084 167 383 7 9 0 6 37 *3 AS,MVP-1,SS
2007 27 PHI NL 144 648 529 94 142 26 0 47 136 1 0 107 199 .268 .392 .584 .976 144 309 13 5 0 7 35 *3/D MVP-5
2008 28 PHI NL 162 700 610 105 153 26 4 48 146 1 1 81 199 .251 .339 .543 .881 125 331 11 3 0 6 17 *3/D MVP-2
2009 29 PHI NL 160 703 616 105 172 37 4 45 141 8 1 75 186 .279 .360 .571 .931 141 352 11 6 0 6 8 *3/D AS,MVP-3
2010 30 PHI NL 143 620 550 87 152 23 5 31 108 1 1 59 157 .276 .353 .505 .859 127 278 14 8 0 3 11 *3/D AS,MVP-10
2011 31 PHI NL 152 644 557 81 141 30 1 33 116 1 0 75 172 .253 .346 .488 .835 126 272 10 7 0 5 16 *3/D MVP-10
2012 32 PHI NL 71 292 260 28 57 11 0 14 56 0 0 25 99 .219 .295 .423 .718 91 110 8 4 0 3 7 3
9 Yrs 1098 4701 4054 661 1100 200 17 300 920 12 4 565 1306 .271 .364 .551 .915 135 2234 82 44 0 38 139
162 Game Avg. 162 694 598 98 162 30 3 44 136 2 1 83 193 .271 .364 .551 .915 135 330 12 6 0 6 21

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2004 24 PHI NL 19 42 1 0 -0 1 -0 1 0.1 1 2 0.3 .507 .501 0.2 0.1 2 /3
2005 25 PHI NL 88 348 14 -1 1 11 -5 20 2.0 10 29 2.9 .523 .512 1.8 0.6 18 3 RoY-1
2006 26 PHI NL 159 704 55 -4 0 -9 -10 33 3.1 19 52 5.0 .520 .519 5.8 -1.8 60 $355,000 *3 AS,MVP-1,SS
2007 27 PHI NL 144 648 28 -3 -1 -4 -9 11 1.1 17 28 2.8 .507 .507 3.2 -1.3 32 $900,000 *3/D MVP-5
2008 28 PHI NL 162 700 15 -3 0 -4 -10 -2 -0.3 19 17 1.5 .499 .499 2.0 -1.5 21 $10,000,000 *3/D MVP-2
2009 29 PHI NL 160 703 33 -2 -0 -4 -10 16 1.7 19 35 3.5 .510 .510 3.9 -1.4 39 $15,000,000 *3/D AS,MVP-3
2010 30 PHI NL 143 620 18 -2 0 -13 -9 -5 -0.6 17 12 1.1 .496 .496 2.4 -2.3 25 $19,000,000 *3/D AS,MVP-10
2011 31 PHI NL 152 644 18 -4 1 -13 -9 -8 -0.8 18 10 0.9 .494 .495 2.3 -2.4 23 $20,000,000 *3/D MVP-10
2012 32 PHI NL 71 292 -6 -2 -0 -6 -4 -19 -2.0 8 -11 -1.2 .471 .487 -0.6 -1.0 -5 $20,000,000 3
9 Seasons 1098 4701 175 -21 1 -41 -67 47 4.3 127 174 16.8 .504 .503 21.0 -11.1 215 $85,255,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2007 27 PHI NL NLDS COL L 3 13 12 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 .250 .308 .500 .808 6 0 1 0 0 0
2008 28 PHI NL NLDS MIL W 4 16 11 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 5 .182 .438 .273 .710 3 1 0 0 0 3
2008 28 PHI NL NLCS LAD W 5 23 20 4 6 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 2 .300 .391 .350 .741 7 0 0 0 0 0
2008 28 PHI NL WS TBR W 5 24 21 3 6 1 0 3 6 0 0 3 9 .286 .375 .762 1.137 16 0 0 0 0 1
2009 29 PHI NL NLDS COL W 4 18 16 3 6 3 0 0 6 0 1 1 4 .375 .389 .563 .951 9 0 0 0 1 1
2009 29 PHI NL NLCS LAD W 5 21 15 5 5 1 1 2 8 0 0 6 4 .333 .524 .933 1.457 14 0 0 0 0 0
2009 29 PHI NL WS NYY L 6 25 23 3 4 2 0 1 3 1 0 2 13 .174 .240 .391 .631 9 0 0 0 0 0
2010 30 PHI NL NLDS CIN W 3 13 11 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 .273 .385 .273 .657 3 0 0 0 0 1
2010 30 PHI NL NLCS SFG L 6 25 22 1 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 .318 .400 .500 .900 11 0 0 0 0 1
2011 31 PHI NL NLDS STL L 5 21 19 1 2 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 6 .105 .143 .263 .406 5 0 0 0 1 0
5 Yrs (10 Series) 46 199 170 22 44 13 1 8 33 1 1 26 67 .259 .357 .488 .845 83 1 1 0 2 7
5 NLDS 19 81 69 6 16 4 0 2 14 0 1 9 27 .232 .321 .377 .698 26 1 1 0 2 5
3 NLCS 16 69 57 10 18 6 1 2 10 0 0 12 18 .316 .435 .561 .996 32 0 0 0 0 1
2 WS 11 49 44 6 10 3 0 4 9 1 0 5 22 .227 .306 .568 .874 25 0 0 0 0 1

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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 139 139 131 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
2012 PHI NL 32 1B 67 66 62 589.2 530 495 30 5 37 .991 -3 -6 -5 -12 8.01 7.84 .992 9.29 9.18
9 Seasons 1B 1061 1040 1006 9338.2 9768 9081 595 92 826 .991 13 -41 2 -5 9.33 9.12 .993 9.33 9.27
9 Seasons TOT 1061 1040 1006 9338.2 9768 9081 595 92 826 .991 13 -41 2 -5 9.33 9.12 .993 9.33 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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 (54th)

Silver Sluggers
2006 NL (1B)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2006 NL  5.8 (4th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2006 NL  .313 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2006 NL  .425 (5th)
Active  .364 (36th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2006 NL  .659 (2nd)
2007 NL  .584 (5th)
2008 NL  .543 (7th)
2009 NL  .571 (4th)
Active  .551 (9th)
Career  .551 (27th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2006 NL  1.084 (2nd)
2007 NL  .976 (8th)
2009 NL  .931 (9th)
Active  .915 (16th)
Career  .915 (55th)

Games Played s c a p y
2006 NL  159 (6th)
2008 NL  162 (1st)
2009 NL  160 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
2009 NL  616 (5th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2006 NL  704 (8th)
2008 NL  700 (5th)
2009 NL  703 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2008 NL  105 (9th)
2009 NL  105 (5th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2006 NL  383 (1st)
2008 NL  331 (4th)
2009 NL  352 (3rd)
Active  2,234 (48th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2006 NL  58 (1st)
2007 NL  47 (2nd)
2008 NL  48 (1st)
2009 NL  45 (3rd)
2010 NL  31 (8th)
2011 NL  33 (6th)
Active  300 (23rd)
Career  300 (134th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2006 NL  149 (1st)
2007 NL  136 (2nd)
2008 NL  146 (1st)
2009 NL  141 (1st)
2010 NL  108 (4th)
2011 NL  116 (3rd)
Active  920 (30th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2006 NL  108 (4th)
2007 NL  107 (4th)
2011 NL  75 (7th)
Active  565 (38th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2006 NL  181 (2nd)
2007 NL  199 (1st)
2008 NL  199 (2nd)
2009 NL  186 (2nd)
2010 NL  157 (8th)
2011 NL  172 (2nd)
Active  1,306 (16th)
Career  1,306 (112th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2006 NL  167 (2nd)
2007 NL  144 (9th)
2009 NL  141 (10th)
Active  135 (18th)
Career  135 (113th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2006 NL  169 (1st)
2009 NL  130 (5th)
Active  830 (45th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2006 NL  62 (2nd)
2007 NL  38 (10th)
2009 NL  35 (10th)
Active  207 (27th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2006 NL  5.7 (2nd)
2007 NL  3.5 (10th)
2009 NL  3.3 (10th)
Active  19.5 (27th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2006 NL  84 (2nd)
2008 NL  78 (5th)
2009 NL  86 (2nd)
Active  517 (38th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2006 NL  299 (1st)
2009 NL  253 (10th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2006 NL  .803 (1st)
2007 NL  .706 (10th)
Active  .678 (17th)
Career  .678 (118th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2006 NL  37 (2nd)
2007 NL  35 (2nd)
2008 NL  17 (6th)
2010 NL  11 (7th)
2011 NL  16 (4th)
Active  139 (10th)
Career  139 (57th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2006 NL  10.0 (1st)
2007 NL  11.3 (1st)
2008 NL  12.7 (1st)
2009 NL  13.7 (4th)
2010 NL  17.7 (7th)
2011 NL  16.9 (8th)
Active  13.5 (1st)
Career  13.5 (4th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2008 NL  475 (8th)
2009 NL  462 (7th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2006 NL  74.92 (1st)
2008 NL  38.96 (10th)
2009 NL  46.85 (8th)
2011 NL  36.38 (9th)
Active  275.44 (21st)
Career  275.44 (141st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2006 NL  8.2 (2nd)
2009 NL  6.4 (3rd)
2011 NL  4.7 (6th)
Active  28.6 (17th)
Career  28.6 (109th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2006 NL  7.4 (1st)
2009 NL  3.9 (9th)
Active  24.1 (24th)
Career  24.1 (151st)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2006 NL  6.7 (1st)
2008 NL  3.6 (10th)
2009 NL  4.4 (8th)
2011 NL  3.6 (9th)
Active  25.7 (21st)
Career  25.7 (150th)

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  9,081 (14th)

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  1,061 (12th)

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  9,081 (11th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2006 NL  91 (5th)
2007 NL  103 (3rd)
Active  595 (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  92 (1st)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
2006 NL  139 (3rd)
2007 NL  124 (5th)
2008 NL  128 (3rd)
2010 NL  117 (5th)
2011 NL  110 (4th)
Active  826 (13th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  9 (4th)
2009 NL  9 (4th)
Active  13 (10th)
Career  13 (61st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2008 NL  9.68 (5th)
2010 NL  9.70 (3rd)
Active  9.33 (12th)
Career  9.33 (91st)

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  9.12 (5th)

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)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 21 (99), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 80 (302), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 98 (164), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 26 (439), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS First Base (120th), 16.8 career WAR/17.7 7yr-peak WAR/17.3 JAWS
Average HOF 1B (out of 18) = 62.3 career WAR/40.7 7yr-peak WAR/51.5 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Prince Fielder (917)
  2. Richie Sexson (899)
  3. Hank Sauer (881)
  4. Tony Clark (873)
  5. Justin Morneau (863)
  6. Dick Stuart (862)
  7. Cecil Fielder (862)
  8. Travis Hafner (862)
  9. Kevin Mitchell (858)
  10. Carlos Pena (856)
Similar Batters through 32 
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  1. Mark McGwire (924)
  2. Richie Sexson (922)
  3. Cecil Fielder (917)
  4. Willie Stargell (884) *
  5. Norm Cash (882)
  6. Frank Howard (880)
  7. Mo Vaughn (878)
  8. David Ortiz (876)
  9. Jay Buhner (874)
  10. Tino Martinez (867)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Norm Cash (925)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Norm Cash (925)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Cecil Fielder (908)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Richie Sexson (918)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Richie Sexson (928)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Richie Sexson (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Mark McGwire (924)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200626Philadelphia Phillies$355,000
200727Philadelphia Phillies$900,000
200828Philadelphia Phillies$10,000,000
200929Philadelphia Phillies$15,000,000
201030Philadelphia Phillies$19,000,000
201131Philadelphia Phillies$20,000,000
201232Philadelphia Phillies$20,000,000contracts
201333Philadelphia Phillies$20,000,000
201434Philadelphia Phillies$25,000,000
201535Philadelphia Phillies$25,000,000
201636Philadelphia Phillies$25,000,000
201737Philadelphia Phillies*$23,000,000$23M Team Option, $10M Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)$85,255,000Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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