MLB / Players

Ryan Howard

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 250 lb

BornNovember 19, 1979 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 2004

Final gameOctober 2, 2016

Seasons13 (2004–2016)

Philadelphia Phillies 2004–2016

Percentile snapshot

2015 season — qualified batters

129

5.7

502

467

7.1

9.2

107

2.8

48.2

12.8

70.9

RBI

60.3

10.6

138

21.3

83.7

.229

4.3

OBP

.277

1.4

SLG

.443

53.2

OPS

.720

29.8

wRC+

92.9

21.3

OPS+

96.0

28.4

wOBA

.311

22.7

sWAR

0.1

2.8

of 142 qualified 2015 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.9

81.6

OPS+

124.8

85.4

sWAR

24.7

95.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2004	19	42	39	5	11	5	0	2	5	2	13	0	0	.282	.333	.564	.897	128.0	126.2	.384	0.2
2005	88	348	312	52	90	17	2	22	63	33	100	0	1	.288	.356	.567	.924	132.3	134.6	.390	1.8
2006	159	704	581	104	182	25	1	58	149	108	181	0	0	.313	.425	.659	1.084	162.7	169.1	.443	6.1
2007	144	648	529	94	142	26	0	47	136	107	199	1	0	.268	.392	.584	.976	137.6	146.6	.401	3.7
2008	162	700	610	105	153	26	4	48	146	81	199	1	1	.251	.339	.543	.881	120.6	125.6	.372	2.6
2009	160	703	616	105	172	37	4	45	141	75	186	8	1	.279	.360	.571	.931	140.5	140.9	.399	4.4
2010	143	620	550	87	152	23	5	31	108	59	157	1	1	.276	.353	.505	.859	127.3	128.5	.372	2.9
2011	152	644	557	81	141	30	1	33	116	75	172	1	0	.253	.346	.488	.835	125.1	127.8	.361	2.7
2012	71	292	260	28	57	11	0	14	56	25	99	0	0	.219	.295	.423	.718	84.0	91.5	.305	-0.2
2013	80	317	286	34	76	20	2	11	43	23	95	0	0	.266	.319	.465	.784	111.2	114.8	.338	0.8
2014	153	648	569	65	127	18	1	23	95	67	190	0	0	.223	.310	.380	.690	90.8	92.0	.309	0.1
2015	129	502	467	53	107	29	1	23	77	27	138	0	0	.229	.277	.443	.720	92.9	96.0	.311	0.1
2016	112	362	331	35	65	10	0	25	59	27	114	0	1	.196	.257	.453	.710	80.1	85.0	.301	-0.5

Career totals

1,572

6,530

5,707

848

1,475

277

382

71st-most career HR

RBI

1,194

162nd-most career RBI

709

372nd-most career BB

1,843

22nd-most career SO

.2585

OBP

.3435

SLG

.5152

81st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8587

157th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2006-09-03	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	3	4	0	13
2010-06-18	MIN @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	2	3	0	13
2006-06-20	NYY @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	7	1	11
2008-06-16	BOS @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
2008-05-21	PHI @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	4	1	10

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player1× Silver Slugger1× NLCS MVP3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.