Ryan Howard

A friend writes:

Through it all, those incredible highs and incredible lows, what's the worst thing that ever happened in his personal life? It was his own family taking advantage of him financially. 
He never even got so much as a DUI, never got caught in a parking lot banging a Perkins waitress, never got busted for drugs (if he really did take the HGH from the al Jazeera report, he should demand his money back!). 
He's really just a pretty good guy. 
I think that fans collectively realized this when that fool threw the beer bottle at Howard earlier this season, from that point on they started cheering for him. I'd like to actually see Howard's season broken down by the pre-beer-bottle throwing and post-beer incident. 
I wonder if an AL team will sign him to be a left-handed DH as a platoon. The guy still has 30-homer power, even if he's just hitting against righties. 
There are 42 players in the NL with 20 or more homers. There are only 7 of those sluggers with less than 400 at bats, and there are only 2 of them with fewer than 370 at bats: Howard, 23 homers in 307 ABs, Tommy Joseph, 21 homers in 304 ABs.