Diamondback Journal

The Diamondbacks signed Joe Saunders to a one year, $6 million deal after letting Saunders test the waters last month.  They didn’t offer him arbitration but they were still able to come to terms to bring Saunders back for another year.  He was part of the deal that sent Dan Haren over to the Angels back in 2010.

Saunders is a reliable left hander and he went 12-13 with a 3.69 ERA last year.  He’s not a big strikeout guy and he always seems to win more games then you’d expect from someone who barely gets more then 100 strikeouts in a season but he has 69 major league wins.  Last year he became a work horse of sorts with 212 innings.