Rosehaven River Dogs
Chester Caulder     14 years 1,344-924   4 World Series  8  Divisions

    Manager Record Post-Season G O+S HR RBI IP Wins Saves ERA (min 81 IP)
1994 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 102-60, 1st Won World Series Sosa/Caminiti/ Conine/Piazza  162 Piazza  .838 Sosa  38 Sosa  116 Cone  246 Bones 19 D.Hall  19 BJJones  2.17
1995 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 95-67, 1st Won World Series Edmonds/ Caminiti  162 Piazza  1.104 Piazza  49 Piazza  120 Cone  230 Cone  17 Henneman  19 Valdes  3.22
1996 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 103-59, 1st Lost WS Palmeiro  161 Piazza  .984 Piazza  36 Piazza  110 Valdes  216 Valdes  17 Shuey  33 Manuel  2.91
1997 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 104-58, 1st Lost WS Jeter  161 Piazza  .993 Piazza  35 Piazza  129 Valdes  202 Park  16 Myers 21 Mesa  2.19
1998 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 116-46, 1st Lost CC Sosa/Rolen 162 Rolen  .989 Sosa  67 Sosa  166 Belcher  220 Belcher/ B.J.Jones 21 Timlin 33 Cone 2.51
1999 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 98-64, 2nd Lost DC Sosa/Jeter  162 Palmeiro  1.071 Sosa  71 Sosa  162 Valdes  222 Valdes  19 Timlin  36 Valdes  3.06
2000 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 109-53, 1st Won World Series Sosa  160 Sosa  1.182 Sosa  71 Sosa  179 Park  216 Suzuki  18 Leskanic  24 Tam  2.85
2001 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 100-62, 1st Won World Series Sosa/Palmiero  162 Palmiero  1.094 Palmiero  58 Palmiero  139 Park  222 Bere  20 Isringhausen 29 DeJean  2.57
2002 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 100-62, 1st Lost DC Rolen  162 Sosa  .959 Sosa  47 Sosa  128 Nomo  235 Nomo  18 Isringhausen 33 Reed  3.07
2003 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 96-66, 2nd Lost CC Palmeiro  162 Edmonds 1.024 Edmonds 46 Sosa  120 Franklin 222 Franklin, Lohse  16 Isringhausen 20 Franklin 2.72
2004 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 76-86, 2nd   Edmonds  154 Edmonds  1.021 Edmonds  37 Rolen  102 Lawrence  205 Lawrence  13 Isringhausen  24 Lawrence  4.62
2005 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 60-102, 7th   Jeter 158 Edmonds  .982 Edmonds  39 Edmonds  108 Lawrence  207 Cabrera  10 Baez  13 T.Walker 2.63
2006 Rosehaven River Dogs Chester Caulder 84-78, 4th   Jeter 161 Jeter .914 Rolen 30 Rolen  120 Moyer  207 Cook  15 Julio  16 Cook  3.43

 

  2005 Signings 2006 Signings 2007 Signings
1b   Shelton, Huber  
2b Belliard Belliard  
3b Rolen Rolen, Crede Rolen
ss Jeter Jeter Jeter
lf   DeJesus DeJesus
cf Edmonds, DeJesus Edmonds Edmonds
rf Sosa   Victorino
c Piazza   Kendall
ut      
sp Lawrence, Franklin, Bautista Cabrera, Bautista, M.Wood Cabrera, Bautista, Cook, Meche, Belisle
cl Isringhausen, Baez Baez Dotel
rp      

Personnel History

Chester Caulder has been the most successful owner in IIBL history, winning 4 World Series and 8 divisions. Their run of 12 consecutive playoff appearances is an IIBL record. Most of this was built around the big six of Jeter, Sosa, Edmonds, Piazza, Palmeiro, and Rolen, who played together largely between 1996 and 2004. Sosa, Palmeiro, and Piazza rank 1st, 7th, and 10th in lifetime IIBL homers. Edmonds is 18th overall and the newcomer, Scott Rolen, is 42nd.

The pitching staff has been less dependable. David Cone did the heavy lifting in the early years of the franchise, and later, for a while, Ismael Valdez and Chan Ho Park provided a core. More recently, anyone decent who can eat innings and keep the ball within the spacious confines of San Diego's stadia has been good enough. Witness the following 15 game winners in River Dog history: Tim Belcher, Ryan Franklin, Steve Parris, Glendon Rusch, Mac Suzuki.

With numerous draft picks, albeit without top ones, the River Dogs should have developed at least one other player to go with their big six. They really haven't. Tony Batista and Roy Halladay were solid picks, but were cut before reaching their potential.

The 2006 franchise was successful enough to provide 7 of the 12 signed players, as the River Dogs realize that wholesale changes are needed to get them back to their previous standards of glory.

2006

The River Dogs' high water mark was at 69-56 in late August. That was good enough to lead the division in a close 4 team race, but an 8-17 mark thereafter was enough to drop them from post season consideration.  It was a 24 game improvement over the 2005 version of the River Dogs. Offensively, the team was led by Derek Jeter (.353/.414./.500) and Scott Rolen, (30 HR and 120 RBI); after that there wasn't too much as the River Dogs were in the middle of the pack offensively. The pitching was the big improvement from the previous year. First round pick Aaron Cook won 15 and posted a 3.43 ERA and other picks Gil Meche and Jamie Moyer were also respectable. The less said about the bullpen the better.

2005

Ouch! Worst River Dog team in history, losing over 100 games and continuing on the downward trend started the second half of the prior season. The pitching was deplorable, with a team ERA of nearly 5, and only Daniel Cabrera winning as many as 10 games. Three starters lost 16 or more. In the past, secondary starters (see Bere, Jason or Suzuki, Kaz) could win a host of games because there was Rolen, Sosa, Palmiero, Piazza, Jeter, and Edmonds, but only the last two were much of a factor. As such, the offense was worse than average and certainly could not support a pitching staff as bad as the River Dogs. In early June, the River Dogs were 26-32, but then won 6 of their next 22 to pose no threat to .500 the rest of the way.

2004

.500 in the early going, an 11 game winning streak in early June pushed the River Dogs into a first place tie with Seoul. 21 of the next 24 games, though, were with teams who finished with winning records, and Rosehaven was not a match, winning only 7 of them. A 3-17 streak in August sealed the team's fate. It was the franchise's first time out of the playoffs since 1993. Pitching was the main culprit, finishing 19th of 26 despite playing in an extreme pitchers' park. Only Jason Isringhausen had an ERA below 4. Offensively, the big 6 showed signs of breaking down. Derek Jeter hit .252/.321/.367, and Sammy Sosa slumped to a .302 OB%. Raffy Palmeiro hit only 15 HRs, and Mike Piazza compiled a pedestrian .820 O+S.

2003

At the end of July, Rosehaven stood at 65-41 and the Scorpions at 65-42, 1/2 game back. The River Dogs came to Rio Salado and got swept. It was the start of a 44-11 run for the Scorpions, against which Rosehaven could not compete.  Ninety-six wins was the worst Rosehaven total since 1995, a year in which the River Dogs, by the way, won the World Series. The big six were reduced to the big five and a half, as Mike Piazza's injuries limited him to only 283 plate appearances. That said, Matt Stairs chipped in handily with 22 homers, the most by a non-big sixer since 1996.

In the playoffs, Rosehaven had little trouble with Maui, and then again faced Rio Salado in the Conference finals. In three games at Rio Salado, the River Dogs were outscored 26-7 (4 of the 7 coming after all doubt had been erased), and that was that.