God he sucks.

Cant they just send him to minors?

Agreed, but is still the best hr hitter on team.

trololol

franco
but yes howard absolutely sucks, its insane how bad he is

another 0fer for his today 2 more ks brgs him up to 44ks, 19 hits
dude needs to retire after the year, he cant even hit a righty anymore. he just doesnt belong in the majors

thank god for joseph

the entire life of that contract was negative WAR (outside of a 0.6 in 2013)
hes at like -4 war for the entirety of it, and this season isnt even over.
-4 war for 125m dollars, and DM is gonna say the pujols contract is worse, because its longer... lmao.
well i guess pujols has like 5 more years to produce a negative 18 war to outdo howard..

I read an article today saying the Ryan Howard contract was the worst in MLB history.

They got zero return.

i seriously dont see how the pujols contract can be worse. i mean yea, its bad. but the hamilton one has to be worse, considering he did less than howard and now the angels are paying you guys for him to be on the DL
but pujols has produced like a 13.5 WAR up to date, including a 4.8 WAR in his first season with the angels, which is only 0.4 behind howards BEST season when he won MVP.
even as bad as howard is, pujols would have to produce like a -3.5 war (per year) for its entirety to be worse than howards. which clearly wont happen. even in pujols' injury season he still was 1.5 war, which howard hasnt come close to during his contract, and hasnt eclipsed since 2009.

This post was edited by FLCKennedy on May 23 2016 09:49pm

how stupid to even extend him with 2 years left on his contract, cant believe how rapid his decline was
achilles injury never regained even close to to what he was

had a spark last year he hit what 27 or something last year, but now he looks completely lost up there he is hardly even a platoon anymore



pujols hit 40 hrs last year lol, he still it atleast making contact he has 2 more strikeouts then howard has hits lol
howards decline is like none other, has a former mvp sucked worse at the end of his career then howard

he'll be lucky to get a minor league deal, unless the phils give him one see how he does next spring

howard has 45 ks thisyear lol batting under .160

This post was edited by jackzors on May 23 2016 09:49pm

Yeah the injury killed him, pretty unfortunate.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/70964/its-time-for-the-phillies-to-release-ryan-howard

lol, did he really compare the situation to ken griffey jr?

Most people see it as paying him for his previous accomplishments with the team (MVP, etc) when he was being paid like shit while absolutely beasting for the Phillies.

I'm not mad, he's gone after this year we have no worries