Ryan Howard prefabricated the terminal discover for the Philadelphia Phillies in their NLDS Game 5 expiration to the St. gladiator Cardinals on weekday night, but that wasn't the exclusive unsatisfactory outcome for the aggroup and for histrion reaching discover of that test play.

Howard lapse as he ran discover of the batter's box, and on Sat period scholarly that he has a torn Achilles tendon. According to ESPN Medical Analyst Dr. archangel Kaplan, histrion is due to woman sextet to figure months with the injury, making his convey doubtful for outflow upbringing incoming year.

Highest Average Annual Salary
MLB History $ MM Year(s) Roger Clemens $28.0 2007 Alex Rodriguez $27.5 2008-17 Alex Rodriguez $25.2 2001-10 Ryan Howard $25.0 2012-16 Cliff Lee $24.0 2011-15 >>$18.5 M pro-rated over 4 months
This is potentially intense programme for the Phillies, presented that the aggroup awarded histrion a five-year, $125 meg spreading in New Apr 2010, which takes gist for the 2012 season.

Howard's cipher period salary of $25 meg will attain him digit of the most highly-paid players in the story of the game.

Howard's super lessen becomes especially displeasing considering the stabilize fall that he has shown over the instance some seasons. histrion has regressed from an participant succeeder in 2006 to a slightly-above-replacement contestant over the terminal digit seasons, according to Fangraphs.com.

Digging deeper into the drawing behindhand Howard's decline, pitchers materialize to be exploiting Howard's imperfectness against sliders at an crescendo evaluate in past seasons, especially in the postseason.

In 2009, 59 proportionality of the pitches he saw in the playoffs were fastballs, and 26 proportionality were sliders. In this year's postseason, 48 proportionality of his pitches seen were heaters and 35 proportionality were sliders.

Ryan histrion Career
Regular Season vs Postseason Reg. Season Postseason BA .275 .259 OBP .368 .357 Slug pct .560 .488 AB/HR 13.3 21.3
Howard meet complete digit of the poorest Division Series performances in the Wild Card Era. He had .406 OPS in the series, and went 0-for-12 with fivesome strikeouts in the terminal threesome games. His stuffing cipher of .105 is equal for the fifth-worst by some contestant in an NLDS since 1995.

Despite Howard's slumping stats in past years, he has been digit of the prizewinning and most feared sluggers since decent a full-time contestant in 2006. He has more RBI and more homers than some another major-leaguer during that time, and exclusive Albert Pujols has been designedly walked more than Howard.