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Breaking the Show: Settling the Darin Ruf versus Ryan Howard Debate

A team of 25 Ryan Howards takes on a team of 25 Darin Rufs in an amazingly meaningful battle to win the job of Phillies Starting First Baseman for the 2015 season.

With Ryan Howard's continued struggles to open 2015 and Darin Ruf's continued existence, the talk radio airwaves have become saturated (I'm assuming here as I don't listen to sports talk radio) with calls for that latter player to be inserted as the starting first baseman over that former player. The likely arguments for that move (again, I assume) focus on Ruf's age and Howard's precipitous and continuing decline and conclude that Ruf constitutes an improvement in both present and future value for the Phillies.