Phillies GOAT - First Base

Ryan Howard.

From 2006 to 2009, The Big Piece averaged 52 home runs and 149 RBIs per season, with an OPS of .967. Jim Thome had an identical OPS in his only 2 full seasons with the Phillies.

There were others I considered. Dick Allen only played 315 games at first for the Phillies. John Kruk hit .309 with an .861 OPS in his Philadelphia career.

It's Howard in a landslide. The home runs he hit were absolutely majestic. I remember one Sunday game (it was the Phanatic's birthday, I can't remember which year) when he hit a ball over the brick wall batter's eye in center field at Citizens Bank Park. He hit 2 home runs in a game 28 times. He had 1 3-HR game. He hit 15 grand slams. He knocked in more than 100 runs for 6 consecutive years.