Joe Saunders

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornJune 16, 1981 · Falls Church, VA, USA

MLB debutAugust 16, 2005

Final gameSeptember 26, 2014

Seasons10 (2005–2014)

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2005–2009; Arizona Diamondbacks 2010; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2010; Arizona Diamondbacks 2011–2012; Baltimore Orioles 2012; Seattle Mariners 2013; Baltimore Orioles 2014; Texas Rangers 2014

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified pitchers

48.8

31.3

1.3

68.8

SHO

232

1.3

107

2.5

36.3

107

1.3

16.3

183.0

28.8

ERA

5.26

1.3

WHIP

1.601

K/9

5.26

2.5

FIP

4.75

1.3

FIP-

127.2

ERA+

70.9

1.3

sWAR

-1.5

1.3

of 81 qualified 2013 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.3

19.4

sWAR

10.3

87.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2006	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2007	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2008	31	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	4.2
2009	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2010	33	28	24	0	2	0	1	1	8	1	.083	.120	.083	.203	-63.3	-45.0	.102	1.0
2011	33	67	61	2	12	1	4	2	15	0	.197	.222	.213	.435	6.8	18.3	.202	3.0
2012	28	46	35	1	3	0	1	3	7	0	.086	.154	.086	.240	-46.4	-33.4	.125	1.7
2013	33	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.2	-100.0	.000	-1.5
2014	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	2	2	0	0	0	0	10	8	4	4	3	9.3	7.71	1.500	3.86	7.66	180.0	55.1	-0.3
2006	13	13	7	3	0	0	71	37	29	51	6	70.7	4.71	1.415	6.50	4.12	91.3	95.8	0.6
2007	18	18	8	5	0	0	129	53	34	69	11	107.3	4.44	1.519	5.79	4.34	96.1	101.5	1.2
2008	31	31	17	7	1	0	187	75	53	103	21	198.0	3.41	1.212	4.68	4.39	99.7	129.2	4.2
2009	31	31	16	7	1	1	202	95	64	101	29	186.0	4.60	1.430	4.89	5.21	118.4	95.8	1.5
2010	33	33	9	17	3	1	232	101	64	114	25	203.3	4.47	1.456	5.05	4.57	111.9	91.4	1.0
2011	33	33	12	13	1	0	210	87	67	108	29	212.0	3.69	1.307	4.58	4.74	118.8	108.1	3.0
2012	28	28	9	13	1	1	195	79	39	112	21	174.7	4.07	1.340	5.77	4.10	99.6	101.2	1.7
2013	32	32	11	16	2	0	232	107	61	107	25	183.0	5.26	1.601	5.26	4.75	127.2	70.9	-1.5
2014	14	8	0	5	0	0	65	32	24	23	9	43.0	6.70	2.070	4.81	6.63	170.0	58.2	-1.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

236

150

128

RBI

.1328

OBP

.1704

SLG

.1406

OPS

.3110

Pitching

G (P)

235

229

SHO

1,387

SO (P)

792

BB allowed

439

ERA

4.372

WHIP

1.4214

K/9

5.14

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	H	2B	RBI	TB
2011-08-06	LAD @ AZ Gameday	2	2	0	2	2
2010-09-04	HOU @ AZ Gameday	3	2	0	1	2
2011-05-08	AZ @ SD Gameday	2	2	0	1	2
2011-06-10	AZ @ MIA Gameday	2	1	1	0	2
2011-09-07	AZ @ COL Gameday	3	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-07-24	COL @ AZ Gameday	7.0	3	2	2	1	9	2
2013-09-21	SEA @ LAA Gameday	7.0	6	6	6	2	9	1
2008-09-28	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	0	9	0
2006-09-19	LAA @ KC Gameday	7.0	7	1	1	3	8	0
2010-06-26	COL @ LAA Gameday	7.0	4	2	2	2	8	1

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

1× 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.