Free-agent first baseman Ryan Howard announced his retirement from baseball on Tuesday. Howard wraps up his playing career having hit .258/.343/.515 with 382 home runs and 1,194 RBI in 1,572 career games with the Phillies in 13 years. He was the Rookie of the Year in 2005, the MVP in 2006 and played in three All-Star games. Howard also won a championship with the Phillies.

The long-time Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard was released from his minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves on Monday. Howard was hitting just .184/.238/.263 over 11 games with Triple-A Gwinnett. The very small chance of Howard returning to the majors and making any sort of impact is compl[...]

Tommy Joseph will not be in the starting lineup for the Phillies against the Mets. [...]

Tommy Joseph will not be in the Phillies starting lineup against the Marlins on Monday. The absence is Joseph's fourth in the last six games. It is surprising to see Joseph on the bench so often, as Pete Mackanin said last week that Joseph would see an increase in playing time over the remainder of [...]

On a night when his teammates scored ten runs and knocked fourteen hits, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard had none. More specifically, Howard, serving as the designated hitter in this interleague matchup, went 0-for-5 with a pair of strikeouts as Philadelphia dropped the opening game of the series[...]

Starting at first base to give the young Tommy Joseph a day off, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard demonstrated clearly why he has been demoted to a bench role by Philadelphia. Batting cleanup, Howard went 0-for-4 with a strikeout, lowering his season batting average to a paltry .145. He has hit te[...]

Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, who has recently been benched in favor of the younger, more productive Tommy Joseph, got the opportunity to play due to the fact that Philadelphia is in Toronto for an interleague series. This gave Howard the opportunity to serve as the designated hitter, and he m[...]

Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard returned to the lineup after a six-day benching and immediately made his presence felt, stroking a solo home run that helped Philadelphia to a 3-2 win over the Cubs on Tuesday. Howard's home run came in the fourth inning, a solo shot off Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks[...]

Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said today that first baseman Ryan Howard will get a break of three to four days to "clear his head." Howard is batting just .154 on the season, with eight home runs and 53 strikeouts in 46 games. He has not homered since the middle of May and is currently mired in a 2[...]

Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard is simply unplayable for fantasy purposes. He is 3 for his last 37 and has not hit a home run since May 11 in Atlanta. He went 0-for-3 in last night's loss to [...]