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Move over, Ryan Howard?
Kyle Schwarber is pacing to match or exceed Ryan Howard's prolific Phillies home run totals.
Joe Giglio
August 05, 2025
Maybe lightning can strike twice.
When Ryan Howard dominated the National League in the early 2000s, it was easy to think that we would never see anything like it again.
Yet now, almost 20 years later, we are seeing something very similar again in Kyle Schwarber.
How close is the power output from Schwarber now to Howard’s 2006 MVP season? And is Schwarber close to matching Howard’s four-year output from 2006-2009?
Here are the updated numbers after Schwarber’s two-homer night vs. Baltimore on Monday.