Selected in the third round of the 1996 amateur draft by the Colorado Rockies.
Product of an African-American father and a Latina mother. His mother placed him in a Greeley, Colorado foster home at age 4, where he was adopted.
(June 26) Put on waivers by the Houston Astros a day after a physical altercation with general manager Ed Wade. If another team doesn't claim Chacon by 29 June, the Astros will release him and terminate his contract for cause.