New Haven County Cutters
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| New Haven County Cutters Founded in 2004 New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Owner(s)/Operated By: New Haven County Cutters Ownership Group | |||
| General Manager: Marie Heikkinen Webb | |||
| Manager: Mike Church | |||
| Media: New Haven Register | |||
| Website: www.cuttersbaseball.com | |||
The New Haven County Cutters were an independent baseball team based in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2004 the team played in the now defunct Northeast League. From 2005 through 2007 it played in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball (the "Can-Am League"), an independent league that is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or with the Minor League Baseball organization.
Prior to the 2004 season, the Cutters played their games in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and were called the Berkshire Black Bears. The team's home was Wahconah Park.
In their four seasons in New Haven, the Cutters had varying degrees of success. Their first season saw them leading the Northeast League South Division for most of the first half of their season, but the team severely faltered down the stretch of the first half and ended up losing the division to the eventual league champion New Jersey Jackals in a one-game playoff at Yale Field. The bad streak continued, and the Cutters fell to last place in the division in the second half and cost first-year manager Jarvis Brown, a former Minnesota Twins prospect, his job.
In 2005, led by first-year manager Mike Church, The Cutters' fortunes started out badly in the first half with an 18-28 record. However, in the second half, they had a complete reversal of fortune and won their first half-season division championship, with a 28-18 record, and qualified for the Can-Am League playoffs. However, the Cutters' luck ran out in the first round of the playoffs, as they were eliminated 3 games to 1 by the eventual league champion Worcester Tornadoes. In 2006 the Cutters kept pace with league leading North Shore Spirit with the second best overall record in the league. The Cutters once again were defeated in the first round of the Can-Am League playoffs by the Brockton Rox 3 games to 1.
On October 30, 2007, Cutters' President David Boyle, Chairman Jonathan Fleisig and Vice Chairman Rick Handelman announced that the team would "not be playing baseball at Yale Field in 2008." The Cutters will join the North Shore Spirit in no longer being part of the Can-Am League in the 2008 season. On November 9-10, 2007, the Cutters held a sale at Yale Field to sell-off any remaining Cutters merchandise to those interested in getting their piece of New Haven baseball history.
[edit] 2007 New Haven County Cutters Roster
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| Atlantic City Surf | Brockton Rox | Nashua Pride | New Jersey Jackals | Ottawa Rapidz | Quebec Capitales | Sussex Skyhawks | Worcester Tornadoes | |
| Former teams: Aces | Adirondack | Albany-Colonie | Allentown | Bangor | Elmira | Grays | New Haven County | North Shore | |
| Other Independent Baseball Leagues: American Association | Atlantic | Continental | Frontier | Golden | Northern | United | |
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