Joe Freaking Saunders

After blanking the A's for 8 innings tonight, Joe Saunders is 5-0 for the month April.  As mentioned by CBSSports.com, he and Frank Tanana (1978) are the only Angels to accomplish this feat in the organization's 48-year history.  The only thing that kept him from going 6-0 was a no-decision in which he gave up only one earned run.

Saunders' strikeout numbers aren't that impressive (4.2 K/9), but with a WHIP of 0.95 he's managed to get through 8 innings in 4 of his 6 starts.  What is it that Saunders is bringing to the table this season that has lead to his quick start?  Is he just getting helped out by the defense or can we expect this type of performance all season?

Baseball Jones ~~ Hustling since 1980

And you know I have to mention my boy Brandon Wood helping us win a game last night. I would love to see he up there everyday but it most likely wont happen with Aybar playing as good as he is and Kendrick is about to come back also.

its great your 3 and 4 spots have 5-0 record i can not wait until lacky comes back we will have 3 aces in the rotation.

Joe Saunders for president.

Ervin Santana now also has 5 wins...2 less wins that he had accomplished all of last season.

Best 1-2 punch in the AL right now.

Sam boy, although it may be somewhat sacreligious to disagree with you, even when Lackey returns I think the Diamondbacks will still have the best rotation in baseball.  With the recent addition of Max Scherzer, the starting five of Webb-Haren-Owings-Johnson-Scherzer may actually be the best we have seen since the Atlanta Braves of the mid-90's.

No doubt the Angels rotation will be one of the best in the game (in a few weeks), but the D-backs have something special in Arizona.