Tag Archives: Ryan Howard

Baseball Statistics: OPS+

*OPS+ or League Adequate On-Base plus Slugging Regular OPS calculates a player’s abilities in both offensive and hitting power, the two most important hitting skills, and the easiest state to measure in a player’s rating. Adjusted OPS+ is OPS (OBP + SLG) relative to league average and adjusted for park factors. An adjusted OPS+ of […]

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 […]

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

Well, what we could witness later today could be one of the greatest baseball performances of all time. Notice that I said could. We could see Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. taking turns smacking baseballs in McCovey Cove and perhaps putting on the best pre-star moment in sports since Jordan and Dominique lifted the […]