Rose played baseball for San Dimas High School in California,[1] where he had a .515 batting average during his senior season in 1985.

[6] Rose sat out the 1987 season, working for a graphics company in Orange County, California, before returning to baseball the following year.

On October 16, however, the Angels sold his contract to the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

[9] After Rose's contract was sold by the Angels to the then-Yokohama Taiyo Whales of NPB's Central League (CL),[10] the team was renamed as the Yokohama BayStars prior to the 1993 season.

Rose's success continued over the next several seasons and he became a central figure in Yokohama's famed "machine gun" batting lineup as its cleanup hitter.

[24] Rose was next the hitting coach for the High Desert Mavericks, a Class A-Advanced Rangers farm team in the California League, during the 2015 and 2016 seasons.

[25] In 2017, he served in the same capacity for the Down East Wood Ducks, also a Rangers Class A-Advanced farm team, in the Carolina League.

[26] Rose moved to the Baltimore Orioles organization for the 2018 season, as hitting coach of the Delmarva Shorebirds in the South Atlantic League.

[27] In February 2019, he was named hitting coach for the Frederick Keys, then a farm team of the Orioles in the Carolina League.