Articles for tag: Ryan Howard

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Adam Dunn: Underrated Superstar

Adam Dunn will become a free agent after the 2010 baseball season is over. Adam Dunn has always been one of my favorite players. Adam Dunn makes no qualms about the type of player he is. He’s a first base slugger. Nothing more, nothing less. He’ll strike out a lot. He’ll hit a lot of ...

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Baseball Statistics: OPS+

*OPS+ or League Adjusted On-Base plus Slugging Regular OPS calculates the abilities of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, the two most important hitting skills, and the easiest stat in measuring a player’s worth. Adjusted OPS+ is OPS (OBP + SLG) relative to league average and adjusted for park ...

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A Short Biography of Ryan James Howard

Ryan James Howard, born November 19, 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a left-handed hitting first baseman (1B) in Major League Baseball (MLB) who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL) East Division. He attended Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in Springfield, Missouri and was drafted by the Philadelphia ...

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Predictions for the 2007 Home Run Derby: The Ryan Howard Show

Well what we could be witnessing later today could have been one of the greatest baseball exhibitions of all time. Notice that I said could have. We could have seen Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. taking turns splashing baseballs into McCovey Cove and possibly putting on the best pre-All Star moment in sports since ...