How Baseball’s Most Powerful Hitter Fell off in One Year...
Вставка
- Опубліковано 3 січ 2025
- Use code GREENLIGHT for $20 off your first SeatGeek order.
seatgeek.oneli...
During the late 2000s Ryan Howard was the most dominant power hitter in all of baseball. Helping him become the fastest to reach 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 home runs. But after one cold October night his career took a sharp turn and overnight he became one of the worst players in the sport.
If you enjoy awesome MLB content then make sure to subscribe :)
/ @3-0greenlight
Title: The Tragic End to Ryan Howard's Career...
Current Fam: 11,586
Music by Yuzzy:
bit.ly/2nUbGqD
Because of how it ended, people forget how good Howard was.
True. Not in Philly though.
Exactly. History hasn’t been kind to Ryan Howard. I see people talk about him like trash
@@yahcrack I hate when people do that. His number, along with Rollins and Utley, should be on the wall. I hate the Phillies policy on retiring numbers.
Tore his Achilles. Was never the same. That should be the video 😂
I new that was the end of the phillies.Downward tractectory
@@valerieleanza8411they were already going downhill at that point. That just expedited the end
Achilles tears/ruptures are almost always a death sentence to an athlete's athleticism & production. Happened to Kobe... went from MVP candidate who DRAGGED an injured Lakers team to the playoffs to having his 3 worst seasons BY FAR to close out his career.
I tore BOTH my achilles, in successive years. Playing in a basketball league (I played in college, then a few pretty lowly leagues after I tore my ACL just before my senior year... lost my chance to AT LEAST get an NBA summer league/training camp invite, and even to play overseas). But those achilles tears? Robbed me of almost HALF my vertical leap, & of a lot of my quickness. Now I have achilles tendinitis for the rest of my life.
His numbers would've been even more through the roof had the Phillies brought him up earlier. He was an absolute monster, it is a shame his career wasn't longer, but Philly will forever adore him along with the rest of that 08 team.. with the exception of Adam Eaton.. still can't believe he got a ring.
Actually.. I take back that Adam Eaton opinion.. the best thing he did for the Phillies was be injured to open a spot in the rotation for Blanton.
What he do lol. And yes I know it’s NOT Adam Eaton the outfielder
@@michealconnell7499 he was brutal, getting him out of the rotation was one of the best things to happen to that 08 team.. it's ignorant of me to say, I don't root for guys to get hurt, but he would've cost them so many games, and in a regular season that came down to the wire, those losses might've cost them the division.
@@patmccrotch5373 to be fair that’s more on front office for having a guy to begin with if they wanted to compete. Going into that year he had an 4.70 era. 5 era in 06, the year before Philly signed him
@@michealconnell7499 oh for sure, I agree with you 100%.. it was not a good signing
If I could retire at 36 and make 180 mil in my career I'd take that tragedy any day
It’s not about the money it’s about competing against some best players in the world
facts
The horror😂
Still has multiple accolades 95% of players will barely smell…
@@GuywithnolimbsTrue, but I have to believe that $180 million would soften the blow.
2010 me when Howard ends the Phillies season taking strike 3: "Did you have to go down looking?!?"
2011 me seeing Howard's [I still remember where I was] injury: "If only he'd just gone down looking..."
I didn't know until the next day. I was in a bar at a wedding. I can't stand to see the other team celebrate, so the instant the out was made, I turned and bolted from the room.
Prolly on of the best "Primes" of all-time (2006-2011) where he averaged over these 6 seasons a whopping , 44 HR's & 133 RBI's per year !!! On that magical 2011 season where the Phils won the most wins in team history (102) I just recall NOT wanting to face the red-hot Runnin Red Birds in round 1 because they were so hot entering the playoffs much like how I feared the Rockies in 2007 and we all know how both turned out :-///
Watching him laying on the ground after that cardinal's series was heartbreaking. You could feel that era of the Phillies closing, plus just feeling for another human being in pain, a guy that seemed to be a really good dude, and was a big part of the reason I got to see my first championship in Philadelphia. Love me some Big Brown.
I grew up as a huge Red Sox fan. However, Ryan Howard was was of my favorite players growing up because he was a lefty just like me (It's probably obvious my favorite lefty was David Ortiz). Most of this was because I got to see him before the majors at AAA scranton/wilkes-barre red barons almost every game. He and most of the other big Phillies farm system players from that era were absolutely class act. I have countless autographs from Ryan howard, shane victorino, chase utley, Jimmy rollins, etc. Those guys are all great role models. They would stop anything they were doing to say hi to fans and give autographs. Also, shoutout Marlon Bryd who recognized me by name at a totally different spring training game and venue and came over to say hi by calling out my name. These guys were class act and had no ego.
I know this is long, but as a side note, the yankees AAA has taken over here and ever since they do almost nothing for the fans compared to what we experienced with the Phillies organization. I will always root for the Phillies as my NL team and I could never forget how awesome these Phillies guys were. When they won the World series, I was so happy for them. That group of guys weren't just superstar players but also superstar humans. Thank you for this video. Baseball is beautiful
Good read 👍
Put the adderall down
JRoll and Chase OMG im from TX and that 08 phillies brought me life never missed a game
and i love Ryan cause he was the only other black man i knew with the name Ryan🤣
Thanks, I love hearing that.
Man, I just remember that last out of the 2011 NLDS so vividly as a cardinal fan. I remember the joy of we were about to win the series, but then you look over and see Ryan Howard on the ground. As a little kid, it was just crazy.
I had conflicted feelings with Howard being a St. Louis local and Missouri State alum. Always rooted for his success.
@@civilwarwasaninsidejob7405you had conflicted feelings on a torn achilles? In what universe would you have any positive feelings about a superstar tearing their achilles in the middle of their prime?
@@xM40A3x I had conflicted feelings meaning I was excited for the birds, while simultaneously sad for Howard's injury. This isn't rocket science. We'll, then again, it seems you read at a 3rd grade level. So this probably is rocket science to you. Stay in school little buddy.
Because of Ryan Howard I am a massive baseball and will be for the rest of my life. He was polarizing, had the pressure of replacing a 1st ballot hall of famer and fan favorite in Thome, was great with the fans, teammates, media. He conducted himself well, but also wasn't afraid to show emotion.
It's a shame he never fully bounced back from that achilles.
23 minute baseball video in front of the heater with it raining outside? YES PLEASE
Man rain sounds nice. Still fucking 100 degrees in AZ
Do you live in the east coast?
You ripping a heater?
@@themapletree2310 no, eastern oregon
I look at his 4 year run from 2006 to 2009 as one of the most impressive 4 year runs in history. Dude averaged 50 homers and 140+ rbis for 4 years straight🤯
Ryan Howard is a legend, and deserves to be in the HOF! BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH PHILLY BEING 32 YEARS OLD THIS MAN WAS MY FAVORITE PLAYER. And frankly is one of my favorite phillies of all time right behind Chase Utley
Did you watch the whole video ??
This moron couldn’t adjust his swing.
Sadly he’ll never get in. Had it not been for that injury, he 100% would be in there
@@trevorphilips5677his biggest dip came the year before that injury. The unfortunate truth is he spent his best years in the minors
Hey bro great vid can't wait to see the mark trumbo vid
Glad you enjoyed!
Mark Trumbo and Chris Davis what a Monsters Hitters in Baltimore so sad that their career were so short
Ryan Howard had such a sweet swing, it almost looked effortless. As a Phillies fan I got to see his whole career, from the highest of highs to...well, you know...
@@dunkelmonkey his power came from his legs and upper body motion he had kinda like a little hop when he swung
@@Tommy.OrginalvideosPhilly and that's why he was never the same after the Achilles
He was that generations Mo Vaughn
The last play of 2011 season vs the cardinals was the end of his career right there
As someone whose hometown baseball team is the Phillies, I can remember Ryan Howard's Iconic stance every time he came up to the plate, though experience told me that he would either strike out or hit a monster bomb into the stands. I also had the opportunity to see the Phillies in Spring Training, and recall not only sitting in front of his family at the ballpark but seeing the multimillion dollar mansion he was having built in the area as well.
The Phillies had a guy in center field(Gus Hephling, I believe) signaling to hitters whether a fastball or offspeed pitch was coming.. I can`t remember exactly when it was discovered this was happening(def mid-season tho, maybe 2009) Look at the offensive stats before/after for all those guys, the benefit was obvious.. and the mid-season splits the year it was found out.
Who tf is Gus hephling 😂 wtf are you talking about 😂
Yeah there was just some random dude standing in center field making signals lol sure thing
Utley and Howard both had massive downturns due to injury. Howard tore his Achilles, Utley had degenerative knee joints.
my favorite player, the reason why i started playing baseball. as a D1 player now, i feel like a kid again watching these
Nice report on Big Ryan. Thanks.
I was at both Colorado playoff games in Denver in '08 when he came through in the clutch. I was sure he was headed to the HoF.
Thome is a class act
I’ve been to around 50 MLB games and Howard had the loudest home run I’ve ever heard live a ballpark. It was in 2008 at Nationals park.
He was a great great player.
He is hof imo. I never saw a player more impressive over a 4 year stretch. Dude was more feared from 06-09. Think of the players in their prime during that era and he was the most feared. His career started late and the Phillies should've made him sit out the whole 2012 season to make sure he could come back looking at least respectable. He came back too soon. Dude was a BEAST
Hot take if you become MVP of any league, you should be in the Hall of Fame being the best on the planet at something even if just for a year should guarantee a spot in the Hall of Fame or what’s the point
those 2010 phillies teams were scary
I’ll never forget the end of 2011 it was absolute utter disaster when he tore his Achilles and I called that was the injury.
All off season the convo was he may never be the same and unfortunately one of the most prolific power hitters to ever play the games career was destroyed by an injury.
Always loved watching him as a kid. Not saying Rhys or Bryce aren't as good, but he was something special.
Really sucks how it all came crashing down when we could've used it most. 2015 and 2016 are the dark ages for a reason.
Ok, I'm certainly not a Philly or Howard fan, that being said "One of the worst players overnight" is just idiotic! 4 straight years of more than 40 hr and 6 years of more than 30 is actually VERY good and would make him one of the best power bats in the league.
He was very exciting to watch. Not my favorite player on the world series team but beloved all the same!
Jim Thome was my childhood idol. My first memory of watching baseball was when I was 5 or 6 years old when Cleveland was playing at NYY. I grew up in upstate NY so I always got the Yankees games. Anyway, I followed Thome to Philadelphia in November 2002 when I was 13. The Phils’ AAA team was only an hour away from me in Scranton, PA. In 2003, I started going to Scranton Wilkes Barre Red Barons games and found Utley. When Thome was traded after the 2005 season, I stayed on board with the Phils and am still a fan to this day. Good shit!
I live in Scranton and remember the day the Yankees took over the triple A red barons go Yanks
It was that injury, He was great. Ill never forget when he fell against St. Louis in the playoffs. He hit a ton.
File this under “meetings that could have been an email.” He tore his achilles, video over lmao
Phillies had some electric teams for a few seasons. 2008 batting order was awesome
1-rollins
2-victorino
3-utley
4-howard
5-werth
6-burrell
7-feliz
8-carlos ruiz
off the bench to PH- dobbs (one of the best PH for a couple yrs. hit .301 off the bench in 08), geoff jenkins, stairs,taguchi, bruntlett.
The pitching staff on the other hand....can't believe it held together that well. Hamels was fantastic but after him...brett myers, 45yo jamie moyer, kyle kendrick and either adam eaton or joe blanton. Yikes.
Holy smokes great work man
Great video. I'm a Phillies fan. I don't know if not dealing with the shift would have made Howard a Hall of Famer. It would have meant he's have 100 more singles and he wasn't getting into the Hall for hitting singles. I thought after 2009 the team should have been broken up. They kept paying these guys as they got older and started to decline. I thought the Phillies should have not given him the 5 year deal and let him walk and they should have signed Prince Fielder. Fielder was younger, a better hitter, still in his prime and a right handed bat which the Phillies needed. No one could have predicted Fielder would have that neck injury and would have to retire.
Gotta do a carlos delgado video
12:42 Correction: Before 2008, Philadelphia sports teams didn't win a major sports championship since 1983.
His RBI numbers are insane. People don’t even come close to them nowadays.
Real ones thought Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder were gunna be the home run kings 😂
Real ones know no one is touching bonds. He's the king of hitting and always will be. Might get a pujols or a rod, trout, Cabrera, or judge to have a good start and potential... but no one is ever matching bonds. It's practically impossible to get close let alone match or surpass
@@kenw2225 bro I was 13 thinking this lol
you not LYING
@@kenw2225i bet you’re fun in real life..
@@kenw2225 do we just ignore the steroids in this argument or?
Arguably the greatest power hitter that wasn't on roids
That would be Ken Griffey Jr, but Ryan Howard is probably a close second. As a Phillies fan who is 38 years old I can tell you he was straight lethal
Griffey
@@RandallBallsfun fact: the link of Sammy Sosa to steroids was never actually made.
I know I'm a Phanatic....but the Phils from 2007-2011 were amazing, and if Howard was not behind Thome for 2 years, he would def be in the hall....fastest to 100 and 200 HR. GO PHILS!
Being from Philly,this man was my hero growing up…Shame how he fell off.
The tragedy is not being able to see him smash the ball like he used to
Imagine if he got to hit without the shift. He almost couldn’t single to right because of the shift they’ve put on for him. And Because of how bad it ended for him people forget just how deadly he was for us from 2007-2011 our best years in 140 years as a club.
This was such a fun time to be a Phillies fan and in my 20s during this run. Thanks for the memories big piece!
great video once again
as a die hard phillies fan and someone who grew up watching the big piece play. im 29 so i remember the early days of CBP and ryans rise up through a bad team all the way to the phillies finally winning… all that being said it breaks my heart how dirty hes been done and how forgotten hes become by baseball “fans”. the phills dont break the 30 year drought, sell out CBP every single game for years and see the phillies become relevant again. and the fact that i have to live with knowing he’ll never get in the HOF fcking KILLS ME. he was the most dangerous man on the planet for a good few years and change this city and is responsible for so many phillies fans like myself today. the HOF is a joke and ill never take it seriously after him not getting in.
Im 32, born and raised in South Philadelphia. Ryan Howard is a legend. Period! I agree with you man!
@@Tommy.OrginalvideosPhilly long live the big piece !
@@DR.slzzzp AMEN
Phillies fan. Ryan still my dawg. Chris Davis too 😂 it happens.....
It would be great to see him today where they can't lie in the entire defense up on his pull side anymore also. Would have been 100% a hof
Because he got that 1 Ring, He is a Hall of Famer!!
You have absolutely NO IDEA how good prime Ryan Howard was
Waiting for that Big Donkey video to hit. Should definitely be looked at for HOF with the new stats and definitely not the 1 and done voting debacle it was.
He would have hit .275 in the post shift era. He was king of hitting into it.
I'm sure the immense contract he signed right before the dropoff had nothing to do with his fade...
Ryan Howard 🔥
pretty incredible career. Baseball is a fleeting, fickle game
if they let him take care of the intial injury this never would have happened. He hurt his ankle sliding into 2nd base on a pick off play and they kept making him play through it during 2010 and his power numbers dropped off then and instead of getting it taken care of he kept playing and putting more weight on it and it led to the achillies eventually rupturing and ruining his career. pisses me off.
After his 4 year prime bro turn into a Joey Gallo,Rob Deer all or nothing
The shift was so ridiculous. It was raining baseball. This should have been corrected a long time ago
It was a career ending injury. He was a superstar before but afterwards he was a minor leaguer.
Brian Wilson made him never the same .
Howard had a great start to his career, but even if he was able to sustain that production, he probably would still be a borderline Hall of Famer, because that's how bad he was defensively. Even during his prime years, he was never the team's leader in WAR.
If the Phillies had just rested up and allowed the Braves to win and eliminate the Cardinals from the wildcard then they would have never played the Cardinals and Ryan Howard possibly never pops his Achilles.
That leg injury in the last at bat of a season. Makes you doubt why you follow a team
Howard was always a bit of a paper tiger and a sharp fall off was by no means unexpected. He always had issues with lefties and even in his prime was near unplayable vs. them, plus guys his size generally have collapses in their early 30s like he did
It was revealed his true age was 32 on his 19th Birthday hence his production dropoff.
I’m a lifelong Phillies fan but don’t really remember him in his prime but he was the strikeout king but he could smash
“Achilles tear” *video ends*
There were some popular players on those Phillies teams, but RH was the most popular of them all.
I was a kid during Howards career. Me and all my friends loved him.
People forget that Howard could pick it too.
Would love to see you do a video like this on Yoenis Cespedes
Cespedes was a flash in the pan though. Crazy potential but not an impressive career
@@kenw2225
What does that make Puig, then?
@@kenw2225 very true, but his run was crazy tho
he was a modern day dave kingman
The shift is the MLB equivalent to the neutral zone trap of the 90’s NHL. It ruined everything
Blew out his Achilles...dude is still one of the greatest players ever...
Howard was the 5th best Philly on their ws team. Rollins , hamels, chase all were better. But Iike Howard. Seems like a good dude too
i remember backing out in online games in mlb 2k if the other guy picked the phillies.. elite pitching and a murderers row batting lineup
Great St. Louisan
How he fell off in 1 year? Injury.. He has a great career 13 years of which 9 where he was between 25% and 67% better than the average hitter (ops+). Ok I lied a bit, there is a year in there were he 'only' was 15% better but he only played 80 games and dealt with playing through injuries.
Though that was Murda Mook in the thumbnail
If he was so easily defeated by the shift he was definitely not a Hall of Famer.
With all due respect to Ryan Howard and what he has accomplished in his career,
What he said on the podcast about " the shift" being why he wasn't getting hits and being productive is straightforward bullshit.
Ryan Howard is a POWER hitter i.e. One dimensional i.e. One Trick Pony i.e. all or nothing swing for the fences you get my point.
If you( your team,the opposing team and the fans) KNOW why the shift is being put on you for a high percentage, What do you do?!?!?
Simple.... LEARN the put the ball in play(singles doubles a triple every now and then)
Also,
LEARN HOW to hit against left handed pitching
That's why you have the off-season spring training and grapefruit league play to practice and put into play what you have been working on.
Which tells me Ryan(like most POWERE hitters) were complacent if not motivated to change their spots/stripes and yet they wonder WHT certain outcomes in the game happened in the game the way it did
He stopped the juice lol
I like Howard. He was a great hitter. Now, do we need to discuss why he was never the best player in the league, especially 2006?
I feel the shift was the worst thing for baseball... it made the game so boring to watch... most of the time, batters would hit into the shift, making games hard to watch.. The best thing they did was eliminate the shift ....Rayan Howard was an elite player in his prime, he's was putting up the same numbers Aaron Judge is putting up now... he's definitely a hof in my book
Its almost like he had one of the worst injuries an athlete can have then never was the same. that's it
250 LBS is being modest that guy was near 280.
Rfk stadium?
Wasn't he 26 or 27 years old his rookie year 🤷♂️. He played plenty of time. He's a winner plan and simple.
His average took a hit for sure, but the shift doesn't effect your home run ability.
You’re a casual if you think people were more scared of Ryan Howard than someone like Pujols or Miguel Cabrera.
He would be the best power hitter in baseball today🤷♂️.
Okay so, riddle me this, how many gold gloves did Muke Piazza win? Yeah.
The SHIFT killed the guy 2
Dont praise and diss my dawg. LACKLUSTER???
You can only hide your enhancing regimen for so long
I’d hardly call him the most feared hitter of the late 2000’s.
From ‘06-‘09
Pujols OPS was 1.078 vs Howard’s 0.968
Pujols had 328 XBH to Howard’s 321
Pujols had an OPS+ of 179 to Howard’s 146
Pujols had 1,396 TB to Howard’s 1375
Lets not forget Pujols had 226 Ks to Howard’s 765 Ks 😂
Feared hitter? Yes
Most feared? No
teams dont actually give a fuck about all the stats that fans do. games won are the only stat that matters. individual stats dont make team sports important or great. a crazy stat line in a loss is NOTHING
Wtf??If ur talking about the most feared HITTER yes stats do matter,wtf said anything about team in his comment,lmao,
@@nomercyinc6783 Baseball is one of the few team sports where an individual can make an enormous difference so yes stats do make a big difference.
He has a podcast now
Didn’t need a 26 minute video for this simple prior to his injury they implemented the shift and he couldn’t hit a curveball the injury just sped up the process after 2009 his production was already declining
Howard owned the Braves
This is one what happened to I really have to see. Dog was sending s***out of there
Because of the shift he should have batted 1000.