MLB / Players

Phil Rizzuto

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 150 lb

BornSeptember 25, 1917 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1941

Final gameAugust 16, 1956

Seasons13 (1941–1956)

New York Yankees 1941–1942; New York Yankees 1946–1956

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

134

15.5

506

413

1.2

112

1.2

20.2

13.1

2.4

RBI

20.2

72.6

64.3

58.3

47.6

.271

26.2

OBP

.383

70.2

SLG

.351

9.5

OPS

.734

21.4

wRC+

110.9

52.4

OPS+

104.7

39.3

wOBA

.354

40.5

sWAR

3.0

60.7

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.3

34.2

OPS+

94.9

31.3

sWAR

26.7

95.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	133	548	515	65	158	20	9	3	46	27	36	14	5	.307	.343	.398	.741	96.6	99.0	.341	2.2
1942	144	613	553	79	157	24	7	4	68	44	40	22	6	.284	.343	.374	.718	105.1	106.0	.342	3.1
1946	126	518	471	53	121	17	1	2	38	34	39	14	7	.257	.315	.310	.625	72.6	75.2	.299	0.7
1947	153	623	549	78	150	26	9	2	60	57	31	11	6	.273	.350	.364	.714	102.1	101.3	.342	3.0
1948	128	539	464	65	117	13	2	6	50	60	24	6	5	.252	.340	.328	.668	81.8	80.5	.326	1.2
1949	153	712	614	110	169	22	7	5	65	72	34	18	6	.275	.352	.358	.711	89.5	89.9	.344	2.1
1950	155	735	617	125	200	36	7	7	66	92	39	12	8	.324	.418	.439	.857	127.2	124.3	.403	5.5
1951	144	629	540	87	148	21	6	2	43	58	27	18	3	.274	.350	.346	.696	94.9	93.6	.333	2.3
1952	152	673	578	89	147	24	10	2	43	67	42	17	6	.254	.337	.341	.678	96.9	96.1	.325	2.7
1953	134	506	413	54	112	21	3	2	54	71	39	4	3	.271	.383	.351	.734	110.9	104.7	.354	3.0
1954	127	369	307	47	60	11	0	2	15	41	23	3	2	.195	.291	.251	.541	54.4	54.1	.268	-0.1
1955	81	181	143	19	37	4	1	1	9	22	18	7	1	.259	.369	.322	.691	97.9	91.0	.338	0.9
1956	31	65	52	6	12	0	0	0	6	6	6	3	0	.231	.310	.231	.541	53.6	49.2	.271	0.0

Career totals

1,661

6,711

5,816

877

1,588

239

RBI

563

651

447th-most career BB

398

149

.2730

OBP

.3510

SLG

.3551

OPS

.7061

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1950-08-06	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	0	4	0	8
1949-08-06	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1942-08-02	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1942-09-06	NYY @ MIN Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1950-09-24	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	1	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-14	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-15	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	NYY @ MIN 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1994 (Veterans)

1× Most Valuable Player5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.