Johnny Rizzo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 30, 1912 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameSeptember 25, 1942

Seasons5 (1938–1942)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1938–1939; Cincinnati Reds 1940; Philadelphia Phillies 1940; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940; Philadelphia Phillies 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

143

69.1

565

52.5

505

51.8

54.7

143

55.4

40.3

14.4

91.4

RBI

66.9

71.2

25.9

30.2

42.4

.283

44.6

OBP

.357

48.2

SLG

.471

71.9

OPS

.828

wRC+

127.7

79.1

OPS+

127.4

78.4

wOBA

.376

61.2

sWAR

3.3

73.4

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.2

84.6

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	143	617	555	97	167	31	9	23	111	54	61	1	.301	.368	.514	.882	139.9	140.1	.398	4.3
1939	94	384	330	49	86	23	3	6	55	42	27	0	.261	.349	.403	.752	103.9	102.6	.350	1.0
1940	143	565	505	71	143	19	2	24	72	56	50	3	.283	.357	.471	.828	127.7	127.4	.376	3.3
1941	99	265	235	20	51	9	2	4	24	24	34	1	.217	.295	.323	.618	73.6	74.8	.296	-0.3
1942	78	244	217	31	50	8	0	4	27	24	25	2	.230	.307	.323	.630	83.2	84.0	.305	-0.1

Career totals

557

2,075

1,842

268

497

RBI

289

200

197

.2698

OBP

.3452

SLG

.4354

OPS

.7806

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1939-05-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	6	4	5	2	2	9	0	13
1940-08-25	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1938-06-19	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	6	0	9
1940-08-14	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	1	9
1941-06-29	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.