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Ryan Howard

Philadelphia Phillies National League East1B

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #6

Born: November 19, 1979 in St. Louis, MO, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2004

dbWAR: 30.4
PA: 362
AVG: .196
OBP: .257
SLG: .453
wRC+: 91

Ryan Howard was a first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2016 he hit 25 home runs and knocked in 59 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 362 plate appearances in 112 games. His batting average was .196, 23.1% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .257 clip and slugged .453, for an OPS of .710, 3.9% lower than the league mark of .739 — 8th of 14 on his team, and 270th of 438 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.6 mph off the bat, hit 51.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.2% of them and made contact on 65.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 91 wRC+ puts his offence 9% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, +1.0 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -5.5 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2016 regular season.

wRC+91

wOBA.303

ISO.257

BB%7.5%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2016; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	PHI	112	362	65	25	59	0	27	114	.196	.257	.453	.257	.205	7.5%	31.5%	.303	-5.4	91	-0.1
2015	PHI	129	503	107	23	77	0	27	138	.229	.277	.443	.214	.272	5.4%	27.4%	.311	-2.2	95	0.3
2014	PHI	153	648	127	23	95	0	67	190	.223	.310	.380	.156	.288	10.3%	29.3%	.310	-1.9	99	0.8
2013	PHI	79	317	76	11	43	0	23	95	.266	.319	.465	.199	.349	7.3%	30.0%	.338	+5.0	111	0.9
2012	PHI	71	292	57	14	56	0	25	99	.219	.295	.423	.204	.287	8.6%	33.9%	.307	-2.7	93	0.0
2011	PHI	152	644	141	33	116	1	75	172	.253	.346	.488	.235	.303	11.6%	26.7%	.361	+20.1	128	3.1
2010	PHI	143	620	152	31	108	1	59	157	.276	.353	.505	.229	.332	9.5%	25.3%	.374	+23.8	134	3.4
2009	PHI	160	703	172	45	141	8	75	186	.279	.360	.571	.292	.325	10.7%	26.5%	.398	+37.3	143	4.8
2008	PHI	162	700	153	48	146	1	81	199	.251	.339	.543	.292	.285	11.6%	28.4%	.374	+23.4	127	3.3
2007	PHI	143	648	142	47	136	1	107	199	.268	.392	.584	.316	.328	16.5%	30.7%	.403	+36.4	144	4.4
2006	PHI	159	704	182	58	149	0	108	181	.313	.425	.659	.346	.356	15.3%	25.7%	.443	+63.2	168	7.2
2005	PHI	87	348	90	22	63	0	33	100	.288	.356	.567	.279	.354	9.5%	28.7%	.391	+17.3	135	2.3

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Ryan Howard's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	5	21	19	1	2	0	0	1	6	1	6	0	.105	.143	.263	.406
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	9	38	33	1	10	4	0	0	0	5	17	0	.303	.395	.424	.819
		NLDS	3	13	11	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.273	.385	.273	.657
		NLCS	6	25	22	1	7	4	0	0	0	3	12	0	.318	.400	.500	.900
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	15	64	54	11	15	6	1	3	17	9	21	1	.278	.375	.593	.968
		NLDS	4	18	16	3	6	3	0	0	6	1	4	0	.375	.389	.563	.951
		NLCS	5	21	15	5	5	1	1	2	8	6	4	0	.333	.524	.933	1.457
		World Series	6	25	23	3	4	2	0	1	3	2	13	1	.174	.240	.391	.631
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	14	63	52	8	14	3	0	3	9	11	16	0	.269	.397	.500	.897
		NLDS	4	16	11	1	2	1	0	0	1	5	5	0	.182	.438	.273	.710
		NLCS	5	23	20	4	6	1	0	0	2	3	2	0	.300	.391	.350	.741
		World Series	5	24	21	3	6	1	0	3	6	3	9	0	.286	.375	.762	1.137
2007 Post	PHI	NLDS	3	13	12	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	7	0	.250	.308	.500	.808
2005–2016		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	46	199	170	22	44	13	1	8	33	26	67	1	.259	.357	.488	.845

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2016. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	35	33	4	1	0	13	.121	.143	.212	.155	37.1%
vs RHP	328	299	61	24	27	101	.204	.268	.478	.318	30.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 204 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 16.2%
Exit velocity: 92.6
Max exit velo: 109.2
Hard hit: 51.0%
Sweet spot: 41.2%
Launch angle: 17.0°

Barrel rate16.2%

Exit velocity92.6 mph

Hard hit rate51.0%

Contact rate65.7%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .255.

Situational hitting

How Ryan Howard hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	362	—	—	—	—	—	—	.196	.257	.453	.303
Bases empty	202	190	34	16	16	11	75	.179	.228	.447	.290
Runner on first	79	73	17	5	11	6	19	.233	.291	.466	.327
Runners on	161	142	31	9	43	16	39	.218	.292	.458	.317
RISP	82	69	14	4	32	10	20	.203	.293	.449	.307

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2016.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.