Ryan Howard played 13 seasons (2004–2016) for PHI. Career regular-season line: 1,475 hits, 382 home runs and a .258 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 2006. Led the league in a statistical category 4 times. Honors: 3× All-Star Selections and 1× MVP Awards.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 96.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Ryan Howard — All-Time
12 seasons · peak 16.9 in 2006 · league-best season: 2006
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
31.2 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 2006 · +6.5 wins
Latest season · 2016 · +0.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Ryan Howard led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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4
league-leading seasons · 10 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 2006, 12 rated seasons.
Season boards
10
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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Gave the Philadelphia Phillies an entire corpus-attributed career — 13 seasons (2004–2016), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.