Marc Kroon


‧ Position: Pitcher.

‧ Height: 6-foot-2.

‧ Weight: 190 pounds.

‧ Bats: Right.

‧ Throws: Right.

‧ Age: 31.

‧ Acquired: Signed as a minor league free agent from the Anaheim organization
             Dec. 4, 2003.

‧ Status: He is in the mix for one of three open spots in the bullpen.

‧ Career highlights: Has averaged 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings during his
                      minor league career . . . Big-league experience consists
                      of 20 appearances over four seasons with San Diego and
                      Cincinnati . . . During the winter, pitched for Culiacan,
                      which won the Mexican Pacific League title and finished
                      second to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Series.

‧ Personal: Made only four appearances in 2000 and missed the entire 2001 and
             2002 seasons because of shoulder surgeries . . . Born in the
             Bronx, N.Y., but his family moved to Phoenix before his junior
             year in high school . . . Played only one year of high school
             baseball, his senior year . . . Originally signed with the New
             York Mets as a second-round draft pick in June 1991.

‧ Who had the biggest impact on your career?
             "My mom has always been there for me, no matter what. The last
              three years - when doctors were telling me I'd never play again,
              that I was going to have to face reality and retire - my mom was
              there, believing in me."