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Johnny Rizzo

John Costa Rizzo

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 30, 1912 in Houston, TX(All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1938
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Phillies/Dodgers/Reds 1938-1942

Final Game: September 25, 1942
Died: December 4, 1977 in Houston, TX
Buried: Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery, Houston, TX
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1938 PIT NL 25 LF 140 140 134 304 284 5 15 1 .951 2.06 .971 2.23 MVP-6
1938 PIT NL 25 OF 140 140 134 304 284 5 15 1 .951 2.06 .976 2.34 MVP-6
1939 PIT NL 26 LF 86 85 84 193 186 2 5 0 .974 2.19 .974 2.16
1939 PIT NL 26 OF 86 85 84 193 186 2 5 0 .974 2.19 .975 2.32
1940 TOT NL 27 OF 128 128 118 307 284 12 11 6 .964 2.31 .977 2.32 MVP-29
1940 TOT NL 27 LF 92 91 84 216 195 12 9 4 .958 2.25 .974 2.25 MVP-29
1940 PIT NL 27 LF 7 7 7 11 9 0 2 0 .818 1.29 .974 2.26
1940 PIT NL 27 OF 7 7 7 11 9 0 2 0 .818 1.29 .977 2.31
1940 CIN NL 27 LF 30 30 28 76 68 6 2 2 .974 2.47 .974 2.25
1940 CIN NL 27 OF 30 30 28 76 68 6 2 2 .974 2.47 .977 2.32
1940 PHI NL 27 OF 91 91 83 220 207 6 7 4 .968 2.34 .977 2.32
1940 PHI NL 27 LF 55 54 49 129 118 6 5 2 .961 2.25 .974 2.25
1940 PHI NL 27 CF 24 22 21 60 59 0 1 0 .983 2.46 .981 2.66 MVP-29
1940 PHI NL 27 RF 15 15 13 31 30 0 1 0 .968 2.00 .974 2.04 MVP-29
1940 PHI NL 27 3B 7 7 6 35 6 26 3 2 .914 4.57 .948 3.01 MVP-29
1941 PHI NL 28 OF 62 49 43 126 114 8 4 2 .968 1.97 .975 2.31
1941 PHI NL 28 RF 51 42 36 98 88 8 2 2 .980 1.88 .968 1.95
1941 PHI NL 28 CF 9 4 4 18 17 0 1 0 .944 1.89 .980 2.63
1941 PHI NL 28 LF 4 3 3 10 9 0 1 0 .900 2.25 .976 2.35
1941 PHI NL 28 3B 2 1 0 5 1 2 2 0 .600 1.50 .948 3.35
1942 BRO NL 29 OF 70 57 44 133 124 6 3 1 .977 1.86 .981 2.34
1942 BRO NL 29 RF 63 54 42 117 109 6 2 1 .983 1.83 .981 2.08
1942 BRO NL 29 LF 8 3 2 16 15 0 1 0 .938 1.88 .983 2.33
5 Seasons OF 486 459 423 1063 992 33 38 10 .964 2.11 .977 2.33
5 Seasons LF 330 322 307 739 689 19 31 5 .958 2.15 .973 2.22
3 Seasons RF 129 111 91 246 227 14 5 3 .980 1.87 .975 2.02
2 Seasons CF 33 26 25 78 76 0 2 0 .974 2.30 .981 2.65
2 Seasons 3B 9 8 6 40 7 28 5 2 .875 3.89 .948 3.09
5 Seasons TOT 495 467 429 1103 999 61 43 12 .961 2.14 .976 2.34
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1938 PIT NL 25 143 140 143 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 140 0 3 0
1939 PIT NL 26 94 85 94 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 86 0 0 86 0 8 0
1940 PHI NL 27 103 98 103 98 0 0 0 0 7 0 55 24 15 91 0 5 0
1940 CIN NL 27 31 30 31 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 1 0
1940 PIT NL 27 9 7 9 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 2 0
1941 PHI NL 28 99 50 99 65 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 9 51 62 0 34 0
1942 BRO NL 29 78 57 78 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 63 70 0 8 0
5 Seasons 557 467 557 496 0 0 0 0 10 0 330 33 129 486 0 61 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1938 NL (6, 28%)
1940 NL (29, 1%)
0.30 Career Shares (608th)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 NL  140 (2nd)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 NL  284 (3rd)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  12 (1st)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 NL  15 (1st)
1939 NL  5 (5th)
1940 NL  9 (2nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1940 NL  12 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1938 NL  15 (1st)
1940 NL  11 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1938 NL  2.06 (4th)
1939 NL  2.19 (3rd)
1940 NL  2.25 (4th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 NL  .974 (5th)

                                         

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