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2025 Roswell Invaders Season Recap - The Invaders Hit Rock Bottom in the Worst Season in Franchise History
For most of their history, the Roswell Invaders had been one of the most successful and consistent franchises in the Pecos League. The 2025 season was something completely different. Under manager Garrett Totty, the Invaders collapsed to a 9-42 record and experienced what the team's own official history describes as the worst season in franchise history.
Roswell won only nine games all season. The Invaders finished with a .176 winning percentage, missed the playoffs and ended a season that demonstrated just how far one of the Pecos League's traditional franchises had fallen. For comparison, Roswell had gone 20-30 and reached the postseason in 2024. The Invaders had gone 29-23 in 2023, 27-22 in 2022, 30-26 in 2021 and 37-21 in 2019. Nothing in that history resembled 2025.
The season represented rock bottom for the Invaders. By the time preparations began for 2026, a managerial change was coming. Totty would not return as manager of the Roswell Invaders in 2026. Derick Dominguez would be hired to take over the club while Totty moved to Blackwell.
Garrett Totty Takes Over the Invaders
Garrett Totty entered 2025 with the responsibility of leading a Roswell franchise accustomed to competing for playoff positions. The Invaders had missed the postseason in 2023 after a late-season collapse, but returned to the playoffs in 2024 with a 20-30 record.
That meant 2025 offered an opportunity to move the franchise back toward the top of the Mountain Division. Instead, the Invaders went in the opposite direction. The .176 winning percentage wasn't simply a disappointing season by Roswell standards. It was the lowest point in franchise history.
A Briefly Promising Start
The season did not immediately look like it would become a disaster. Roswell lost its opener against Pecos in Amarillo and then lost 4-3 at Trinidad on May 29, but the Invaders responded.
Roswell defeated Trinidad 10-8 on May 30 and 16-9 on May 31. The Invaders followed those victories with a 4-3 win over Trinidad on June 2. After the difficult opening games, Roswell had won three straight.
For a brief moment, there was reason for optimism. It didn't last.
The Season Begins to Collapse
Once Roswell's early winning streak ended, victories became extremely difficult to find. By June 14, Roswell was only 4-13 despite an offensive explosion in a 23-14 victory over the Pecos Bills.
The losses came in virtually every form. There were close games Roswell couldn't finish, games in which the offense produced enough runs to win but the pitching couldn't hold the opponent and blowouts in which the Invaders simply couldn't stop the opposing offense.
Pecos beat Roswell 15-6 on June 12 and 22-6 on June 13. Garden City defeated the Invaders 11-5 and 15-6 on June 16 and 17. Tucson beat Roswell 28-9 on June 20.
The season was quickly getting away from the Invaders.
Five Wins and 23 Losses
By June 29, the Invaders were 5-23. That meant Roswell had lost more than four games for every game it had won.
The record was especially stunning because of the history of the franchise. Roswell wasn't accustomed to spending an entire summer at the bottom of the standings. This was a franchise that had regularly qualified for the Pecos League playoffs and had spent many seasons competing for championships.
In 2025, simply finding the next victory had become a challenge.
There Were Still Individual Bright Spots
The team record shouldn't erase the fact that several Roswell players had productive individual seasons. Sloan Laird was Roswell's most productive hitter statistically.
Laird played 43 games and hit .392, collecting 65 hits in 166 at-bats. He scored 29 runs, hit eight doubles and drove in 29 runs while striking out only 14 times. His 65 hits led the Invaders.
Ty Murray provided another strong season. Murray hit .349 in 41 games, collecting 53 hits while scoring a team-high 52 runs. He hit five doubles, one triple and three home runs while driving in 22 runs.
Murray also stole 24 bases and was one of the few consistent threats Roswell had both at the plate and on the bases. Shane Marrow played 41 games and produced 44 hits, seven doubles and four home runs. He drove in 31 runs and drew 44 walks.
Najay King supplied much of Roswell's power. King hit seven home runs in only 35 games, the most on the team, and drove in a team-high 34 runs.
Maikol Perez hit .382 in 23 games with seven doubles, four home runs and 19 RBIs.
Those players gave Roswell legitimate offensive production, but the Invaders could not turn enough of that production into victories.
If there was one area that best illustrated why Roswell hit rock bottom in 2025, it was the pitching staff. The numbers were brutal.
Roswell used a large collection of pitchers throughout the summer, but the club never developed enough consistent pitching to stop losing streaks. Tyler Rich went 0-6 with a 13.60 ERA in 11 appearances and 10 starts. In 48 innings he allowed 89 hits, 82 runs and 73 earned runs while walking 51 hitters.
Nester Perela appeared in 31 games and went 2-4 with an 18.90 ERA. In 38 innings, he allowed 87 runs and 80 earned runs while issuing 81 walks. Ervis Solis went 0-3 with a 10.80 ERA. Connor Wilt went 1-2 with a 13.00 ERA. Michael Martinez went 0-3 with an 8.72 ERA. Gerson Cadzillia went 2-3 with an 8.33 ERA.
The constant traffic on the bases made it extremely difficult for Roswell to control games.
There were a few pitchers who provided better results. Phillip Sanders went 1-6 but posted a 5.12 ERA over 58 innings, including two complete games. He struck out 51 hitters.
Ira Clifton went 2-4 with a 5.90 ERA over a team-high 61 innings and also struck out 51. Angel Rios went 0-2 with a 6.90 ERA over 28.2 innings.
But there simply wasn't enough depth behind them. Roswell had too many innings in which walks, hits and defensive pressure accumulated into huge innings for opponents. The results showed up repeatedly on the scoreboard.
A Team Searching for Pitching
The 2025 statistics also reveal how far Roswell had to go simply to complete games. Position players were required to pitch. Outfielders, infielders and catchers all appeared on the mound during the season.
Even manager Garrett Totty officially appeared in a game as a pitcher, recording one-third of an inning. That wasn't the sign of a stable pitching staff. It was evidence of a team trying to find enough outs to survive a difficult season.
The Invaders' pitching page contains ERAs of 10.80, 11.50, 13.00, 13.60, 15.30, 18.00, 18.90, 19.20, 24.00, 24.30, 25.20, 27.00 and higher among pitchers who appeared during the season.
It was almost impossible to build sustained winning baseball around those numbers.
By July 10, Roswell's record had fallen to 7-32. Then, strangely enough, came the best stretch of the season.
Roswell defeated Alpine 7-3 on July 10. Ira Clifton threw eight innings to earn the victory while Shane Marrow went 2-for-3.
The next night, Roswell beat Alpine 8-2. Gerson Cadzillia delivered one of Roswell's best pitching performances of the season, throwing six innings with eight strikeouts while allowing only four hits. Sloan Laird went 4-for-5.
Roswell completed the three-game sweep of Alpine and reached nine victories. For a moment, it appeared that perhaps the Invaders could salvage something from the final weeks of the season.
Instead, those would be the final victories of 2025.
Nine Wins - And Then Nothing
The official Roswell Invaders franchise history summarizes the end of the season in one devastating sentence: after sweeping Alpine in a three-game series in July, Roswell did not win another game that month.
The Invaders finished 9-42. They never reached double-digit victories.
That number alone illustrates the scale of the collapse. Roswell had won 20 games in 2024, 29 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 30 in 2021 and 37 in 2019.
Roswell had gone from 29 victories in 2023 to 20 in 2024 and then only nine in 2025. The Invaders had reached the bottom.
The End of Garrett Totty's Time in Roswell
A 9-42 season made change inevitable. Garrett Totty would not return as manager of the Roswell Invaders in 2026.
On January 11, 2026, the Pecos League announced that Derick Dominguez had been named the new manager in Roswell. Dominguez had managed the Kansas City/Iola Hormigas in 2025 after previously managing the Austin Weirdos in 2023 and 2024.
The announcement made the managerial transition official. Dominguez replaced Totty in Roswell, while Totty moved on to manage in Blackwell.
The Pecos League announcement made no attempt to disguise the challenge facing the new manager. Roswell was coming off a nine-win season and needed a complete turnaround.
Dominguez's message was simple: the goal was to bring Roswell's history of winning baseball back.
Every long-running baseball franchise eventually experiences a season it would rather forget. For the Roswell Invaders, that season was 2025.
The official team history calls it the worst season in franchise history, and there is no better description. Roswell finished 9-42, won only 17.6 percent of its games, never reached 10 victories and missed the postseason.
The pitching staff never found stability. Position players were forced onto the mound. Losing streaks overwhelmed the few productive stretches the club managed to put together.
Even the team's best stretch, a three-game sweep of Alpine, became a reminder of how difficult the season had become because those were Roswell's final victories of the year.
There were good individual performances. Sloan Laird hit .392. Ty Murray hit .349, scored 52 runs and stole 24 bases. Najay King led the club with seven home runs and 34 RBIs. Maikol Perez hit .382.
But baseball seasons are ultimately measured in wins and losses, and the final number was impossible to escape.
9-42.
It was the low point for one of the Pecos League's longest-running franchises. It was the end of Garrett Totty's time managing the Invaders, and it left Roswell entering 2026 with nowhere to go but up.
The question following the 2025 season wasn't whether the Invaders needed to improve. The question was whether a franchise that had fallen this far could rebuild itself in a single offseason.
What happened next would make the 2025 collapse even more remarkable.
