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Joe Saunders

Joseph Francis Saunders (Bazooka Joe)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: June 16, 1981 in Falls Church, VA
High School: West Springfield (Springfield, VA)
School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 10, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 16, 2005
Teams (by GP): Angels/Diamondbacks 2005-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$5.5M (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.013, Arb Eligible: 2012, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Greg Genske [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #877. Warren Hacker… #878. Eric Plunk… #879. Dupee Shaw… #880. JOE SAUNDERS… #881. Billy Taylor… #882. Russ Meyer… #883. Scott Garrelts…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #877. Warren Hacker… #878. Eric Plunk… #879. Dupee Shaw… #880. JOE SAUNDERS… #881. Billy Taylor… #882. Russ Meyer… #883. Scott Garrelts…

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2002	21	ANA-min	Rk,A	5	2	.714	2.80	13	13	0	0	0	0	61.0	56	26	19	3	20	0	48	3	0	5	253		1.246	8.3	0.4	3.0	7.1	2.40	PVO,CDR · PION,MIDW
2004	23	ANA-min	A+,AA	13	10	.565	4.04	27	27	0	0	0	0	144.2	157	75	65	18	37	0	101	10	1	7	615		1.341	9.8	1.1	2.3	6.3	2.73	RCU,ARK · CALL,TL
2005	24	ANA-min	AA,AAA	10	7	.588	3.87	27	27	0	3	2	0	160.2	172	90	69	12	53	0	109	4	0	3	689		1.400	9.6	0.7	3.0	6.1	2.06	ARK,SLK · TL,PCL
2005	24	LAA	AL	0	0		7.71	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.1	10	8	8	3	4	0	4	0	0	1	41	57	1.500	9.6	2.9	3.9	3.9	1.00
2006	25	ANA-min	AAA	10	4	.714	2.67	21	20	1	1	1	0	135.0	117	44	40	12	38	0	97	3	0	2	545		1.148	7.8	0.8	2.5	6.5	2.55	SLK · PCL
2006	25	LAA	AL	7	3	.700	4.71	13	13	0	0	0	0	70.2	71	42	37	6	29	1	51	1	1	2	302	97	1.415	9.0	0.8	3.7	6.5	1.76
2007	26	ANA-min	AAA	4	7	.364	5.11	14	14	0	0	0	0	86.1	89	53	49	10	20	0	84	1	0	6	367		1.263	9.3	1.0	2.1	8.8	4.20	SLK · PCL
2007	26	LAA	AL	8	5	.615	4.44	18	18	0	0	0	0	107.1	129	56	53	11	34	1	69	1	0	3	473	102	1.519	10.8	0.9	2.9	5.8	2.03
2008	27	LAA	AL	17	7	.708	3.41	31	31	0	1	0	0	198.0	187	82	75	21	53	2	103	6	0	3	807	131	1.212	8.5	1.0	2.4	4.7	1.94	AS
2009	28	LAA	AL	16	7	.696	4.60	31	31	0	1	1	0	186.0	202	102	95	29	64	2	101	6	1	5	805	95	1.430	9.8	1.4	3.1	4.9	1.58
2010	29	TOT	MLB	9	17	.346	4.47	33	33	0	3	1	0	203.1	232	120	101	25	64	1	114	5	0	6	880	92	1.456	10.3	1.1	2.8	5.0	1.78
2010	29	LAA	AL	6	10	.375	4.62	20	20	0	2	1	0	120.2	135	70	62	14	45	1	64	1	0	3	522	86	1.492	10.1	1.0	3.4	4.8	1.42
2010	29	ARI	NL	3	7	.300	4.25	13	13	0	1	0	0	82.2	97	50	39	11	19	0	50	4	0	3	358	100	1.403	10.6	1.2	2.1	5.4	2.63
2011	30	ARI	NL	12	13	.480	3.69	33	33	0	1	0	0	212.0	210	94	87	29	67	4	108	3	0	3	874	107	1.307	8.9	1.2	2.8	4.6	1.61
7 Seasons				69	52	.570	4.16	161	161	0	6	2	0	986.2	1041	504	456	124	315	11	550	22	2	23	4182	103	1.374	9.5	1.1	2.9	5.0	1.75
162 Game Avg.				15	11	.570	4.16	34	34	0	1	0	0	208	220	106	96	26	67	2	116	5	0	5	883	103	1.374	9.5	1.1	2.9	5.0	1.75

LAA (6 yrs)				54	32	.628	4.29	115	115	0	4	2	0	692.0	734	360	330	84	229	7	392	15	2	17	2950	102	1.392	9.5	1.1	3.0	5.1	1.71
ARI (2 yrs)				15	20	.429	3.85	46	46	0	2	0	0	294.2	307	144	126	40	86	4	158	7	0	6	1232	105	1.334	9.4	1.2	2.6	4.8	1.84

AL (6 yrs)			AL	54	32	.628	4.29	115	115	0	4	2	0	692.0	734	360	330	84	229	7	392	15	2	17	2950	102	1.392	9.5	1.1	3.0	5.1	1.71
NL (2 yrs)			NL	15	20	.429	3.85	46	46	0	2	0	0	294.2	307	144	126	40	86	4	158	7	0	6	1232	105	1.334	9.4	1.2	2.6	4.8	1.84

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Awards
2005	24	LAA	AL	9.1	2	8	6	0	1.0	-2	-0.2	$
2006	25	LAA	AL	70.2	13	42	50	-1	1.0	8	0.7	$
2007	26	LAA	AL	107.1	18	56	71	-1	1.0	15	1.5	$380,000
2008	27	LAA	AL	198.0	31	82	128	1	1.0	46	4.7	$425,000	AS
2009	28	LAA	AL	186.0	31	102	118	0	1.0	16	1.6	$475,000
2010	29	LAA	AL	120.2	20	70	72	-3	1.0	2	0.2	$3,700,000
2010	29	ARI	NL	82.2	13	50	48	1	.8	-2	-0.2	$
2011	30	ARI	NL	212.0	33	94	118	4	.9	24	2.4	$5,500,000
7 Seasons				986.2	161	504	611	2	1.0	107	10.7	$10,480,000

LAA (6 yrs)				692.0	115	360	445	-4	1.0	85	8.5	$4,980,000
ARI (2 yrs)				294.2	46	144	166	6	.9	22	2.2	$5,500,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2008	27	LAA	AL	ALDS	L	BOS	0	0		7.71	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.2	5	4	4	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	23	1.929	9.6	0.0	7.7	3.9	0.50
2009	28	LAA	AL	ALCS	L	NYY	0	1	.000	4.35	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.1	13	5	5	1	6	0	5	0	0	0	48	1.839	11.3	0.9	5.2	4.4	0.83

2011	30	ARI	NL	NLDS	L	MIL	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	3	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	15	2.333	15.0	0.0	6.0	3.0	0.50
3 Seasons (3 Series)							0	1	.000	6.00	4	4	0	0	0	0	18.0	23	12	12	1	12	0	8	1	0	0	86	1.944	11.5	0.5	6.0	4.0	0.67
1 ALDS							0	0		7.71	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.2	5	4	4	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	23	1.929	9.6	0.0	7.7	3.9	0.50
1 NLDS							0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	3	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	15	2.333	15.0	0.0	6.0	3.0	0.50
1 ALCS							0	1	.000	4.35	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.1	13	5	5	1	6	0	5	0	0	0	48	1.839	11.3	0.9	5.2	4.4	0.83

Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2002	21	ANA-min	Rk,A	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	PVO,CDR · PION,MIDW
2004	23	ANA-min	AA,A+	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	ARK,RCU · TL,CALL
2005	24	ANA-min	AA,AAA	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	ARK,SLK · TL,PCL
2005	24	LAA	AL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
2006	25	ANA-min	AAA	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	SLK · PCL
2006	25	LAA	AL	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2007	26	ANA-min	AAA	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	SLK · PCL
2007	26	LAA	AL	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2008	27	LAA	AL	31	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	AS
2009	28	LAA	AL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2010	29	TOT	MLB	33	28	24	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	8	.083	.120	.083	.203	-45	2	0	0	3	0	0	1
2010	29	LAA	AL	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
2010	29	ARI	NL	13	27	23	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	8	.087	.125	.087	.212	-42	2	0	0	3	0	0	11
2011	30	ARI	NL	30	67	61	2	12	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	15	.197	.222	.213	.435	19	13	1	0	4	0	0	1
7 Seasons				158	98	88	2	14	1	0	0	5	1	0	3	25	.159	.187	.170	.357	-3	15	1	0	7	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	100	90	2	14	1	0	0	5	1	0	3	26	.159	.187	.170	.357	-3	15	1	0	7	0	0

LAA (6 yrs)				115	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
ARI (2 yrs)				43	94	84	2	14	1	0	0	5	1	0	3	23	.167	.195	.179	.374	2	15	1	0	7	0	0

AL (6 yrs)				115	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
NL (2 yrs)				43	94	84	2	14	1	0	0	5	1	0	3	23	.167	.195	.179	.374	2	15	1	0	7	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2008	27	LAA	AL	3	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$425,000	1	AS

2010	29	LAA	AL	1	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0	0.0	-0	0.0	0.0	$3,700,000	11
2010	29	ARI	NL	27	-5	0	0	0	0	3	1	-0	-0.1	-0	-0.1	0.0	$	11
2011	30	ARI	NL	67	-7	0	-0	0	0	7	2	2	0.2	2	0.2	0.0	$5,500,000	1
3 Seasons				98	-13	0	0	0	0	10	3	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$9,625,000

ARI (2 yrs)				94	-12	0	0	0	0	9	3	1	0.1	1	0.1	0.0	$5,500,000
LAA (2 yrs)				4	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$4,125,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2011	30	ARI	NL	NLDS	MIL	L	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLDS							1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Awards
2005	LAA	AL	24	P	2			9.1	0	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		1.74	1.70
2006	LAA	AL	25	P	13			70.2	11	1	10	0	3	1.000	-1	-3	1.40	0.85	.958	1.57	1.54
2007	LAA	AL	26	P	18			107.1	17	3	14	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.43	0.94	.955	1.60	1.59
2008	LAA	AL	27	P	31			198.0	41	8	33	0	3	1.000	2	2	1.86	1.32	.952	1.60	1.59					AS
2009	LAA	AL	28	P	31			186.0	32	7	24	1	3	.969	1	1	1.50	1.00	.953	1.53	1.51
2010	TOT	MLB	29	P	33			203.4	53	6	46	1	1	.981	4	3	2.30	1.58	.953	1.67	1.65
2010	LAA	AL	29	P	20			120.2	38	2	35	1	1	.974	5	8	2.76	1.85	.953	1.63	1.61
2010	ARI	NL	29	P	13			82.2	15	4	11	0	0	1.000	-1	-2	1.63	1.15	.954	1.73	1.72
2011	ARI	NL	30	P	33	33	1	212.0	49	13	36	0	2	1.000	5	5	2.08	1.48	.955	1.80	1.79	9	12	57%	4
	7 Seasons			P	161	33	1	986.2	203	38	163	2	12	.990	11	2	1.83	1.25	.954	1.64	1.63	9	12	57%	4
	7 Seasons			TOT	161	33	1	986.2	203	38	163	2	12	.990	11	13	1.83	1.25	.954	1.64	1.63	9	12	57%	4

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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2008 *	WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 2008 AL 4.7 (7th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 2008 AL 3.41 (7th)	Wins s c a p y 2008 AL 17 (6th) 2009 AL 16 (7th)
Win-Loss % s c a p y 2008 AL .708 (5th) 2009 AL .696 (4th) Active .570 (22nd) Career .570 (222nd)	Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 2008 AL 1.212 (9th)	Games Started s c a p y 2011 NL 33 (4th)	Shutouts s c a p y 2009 AL 1 (7th) 2010 AL 1 (3rd)
Home Runs s c a p y 2009 AL 29 (2nd) 2011 NL 29 (3rd)	Hits s c a p y 2009 AL 202 (8th) 2011 NL 210 (10th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 2009 AL 95 (6th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 2008 AL 131 (7th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 2008 AL 22 (9th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 2008 AL 2.3 (9th)	Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2008 AL 27.83 (8th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2008 AL 3.5 (8th)
Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 2008 AL 2.8 (9th)	Assists as P s c a p y 2008 AL 33 (4th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 21 (1043), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 9 (1013), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 9 (927), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 4, 2002: Drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft. Player signed June 10, 2002.
July 25, 2010: Traded by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim with a player to be named later, Patrick Corbin (minors) and Rafael Rodriguez to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Dan Haren. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim sent Tyler Skaggs (minors) (August 7, 2010) to the Arizona Diamondbacks to complete the trade.
December 12, 2011: Granted Free Agency.
January 17, 2012: Signed as a Free Agent with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary
2007	26	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	$380,000
2008	27	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	$425,000
2009	28	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	$475,000
2010	29	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	$3,700,000
2011	30	Arizona Diamondbacks	$5,500,000
2012 Status		not updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$10,480,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

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