Anthony Rizzo net worth
Anthony Rizzo Net Worth: Anthony Rizzo is an American professional baseball player who has a net worth of $27 million. Anthony Rizzo was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1989. The Boston Red Sox selected him in the sixth round of the 2007 MLB draft. Before making his MLB debut for the San Diego Padres on June 9, 2011, he went through the Red Sox’s farm system.
He played for the Padres in the 2011 season before being traded to the Chicago Cubs in 2012. As of the fall of 2014, Rizzo remained with the Cubs. The left-handed first baseman had a career batting average of .254 and ended the 2014 season with 405 hits, 71 home runs and 215 at-bats. He earned his first All-Star berth in 2014, the same year he received the Branch Rickey Award, which is awarded annually to an MLB player for outstanding service to the community. Rizzo decided to play with the Italian national team during the World Baseball Classic in 2013 to honor his family’s Sicilian heritage as they come from the town of Ciminna. He successfully beat a cancer diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma received in May 2008.
