How Would Phil Rizzuto Have Been as a Fantasy Baseball Player?
On the MLB.com Fantasy 411 podcast, Cory Schwartz and Joe Sheehan were discussing Rizzuto and how good he would have been. They thought that he would have been similar to David Eckstein. There is an easy way to at least get an estimate of his fantasy value; all that needs to be done is to apply a head to head league point scoring structure and see how he would compare. My 12 team mixed head-to-head scoring structure is: 1B-1pt 2B-2pt 3B-3pt HR-4pt RBI-1pt R-1pt BB-1pt SB-2pt HBP-1pt Lets take Rizzuto’s MVP season of 1950, and say that it represents his peak. Rizzuto had 7HR, 66RBI, 12SB, 92BB, 7 3B, 36 2B, 7 HBP and 157 1B. This results in 474 points. We can’t use this year’s points totals since the season is still ongoing, but going by the 2006 point totals his 474 points is middling. With 474 points, he would have equalled Chipper Jones and Tadahito Iguchi’s 2006 output. Right above him is Omar Vizquel at 477 and below are Dave Roberts at 472 and Emil Brown at 471. That is Rizzuto’s
