How Joe Saunders's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players
Joe Saunders posted a career Games Started % of 97.45, well above the starting pitcher average of .674 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 2005, posting 100.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .755 that year. The lowest point came in 2014 at 57.14, well above the starting pitcher average of .797 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 100.0 in 2012 to 100.0 in 2013 and 57.14 in 2014. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 10 seasons.
Joe Saunders Lifetime Games Started %
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| Joe Saunders
Games Started % |
|---|
| Career | 97.45 |
| Season Avg. | 97.45 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 97.45 |
| More Info | See More |
Joe Saunders Games Started % Per Season
Joe Saunders's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Joe Saunders Games Started % by Team
Joe Saunders's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Joe Saunders Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Joe Saunders's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Joe Saunders Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Joe Saunders's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Joe Saunders Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Joe Saunders's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.
Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
