Is Ryan Howard a hall of famer?

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Today Ryan Howard decided to finally hang em up after not playing in the show since 2016.

Howard will finish out his big-league playing tenure having logged time in 13 seasons, all of them with the Phillies. Though he spent time with the Rockies and Braves organizations last year, Howard’s final MLB showing came in 2016 with Philadelphia.

It’s perhaps too easy to forget now that Howard was once one of the game’s most productive power hitters. He was voted the National League’s Rookie of the Year in 2005 and its Most Valuable Player in 2006, emerging alongside players such as Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino, and Cole Hamels to form a core that would soon take the game by storm.

As it turned out, the fate of the Phillies was tied closely to that of its first baseman. Howard finished in the top-ten of MVP voting in every one of the five ensuing seasons, 2007 through 2011, helping to drive the club’s five-year run of NL East titles.

Though the 2008 World Series win represents the crowning achievement of that era of Phillies baseball, the 2011 club actually turned in the most impressive regular-season performance with an excellent 102-60 record. That great team was bounced in stunning fashion from the postseason, though, with Howard making the final out of the NLDS on a play in which he tore his left Achilles tendon.

As went Howard, so went the Phillies; neither was the same from that point forward. The once-feared slugger posted a .226/.292/.427 batting line over the next five seasons. The club played a cumulative 88 games under .500 in the same span.[\quote]


It’s unfortunate but Howard was/is one of the biggest victims of “the shift”. Without it he would still very much be in the league at the minimum in a dh role.

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If his prime had been 3-4 years longer he would have started to build a case but as it is, he's not close.
 
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He def falls in that grey area in my opinion. My childhood hero Jeff Bagwell took a minute to get in and I think their numbers are very similar. Bagwell never had a “true” mvp or ring to his name either and Howard has both.
 
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He probably won’t get in but his 58 homerun season was the greatest thing I’ve seen in my life.

I didn’t follow Bonds like that and the steroid thing made his numbers funny in the light. But Ryan Howard season was just insane.
 
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Nerdy black guy said:
He probably won’t get in but his 58 homerun season was the greatest thing I’ve seen in my life.

I didn’t follow Bonds like that and the steroid thing made his numbers funny in the light. But Ryan Howard season was just insane.
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I don’t think Howard was on the juice. You can see from his high school pics he’s always been a big Nga :wow:

Hated when he took Roy O yard when the playoffs were on the line in Houston, he haunted us almost as much as fkn Albert Pujols :mjcry:
 
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