Fossum went 0-2 with a 8.10 ERA over three starts with the Portland Beavers. In 13.1 innings he allowed 26 hits, walked seven and struck out seven.

Notes:

Fossum attended Texas A&M University, leading the Aggies to the 1999 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned All-Big 12 honors in both 1998 and 1999, highlighted by a 12-7 record and 3.64 ERA during his junior campaign, establishing a single-season school mark with 162 strikeouts. Fossum also won the C.E."Pat" Olsen Outstanding Pitcher Award in 1999 and was a second team All-American in 1998. Selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 1999 June draft as the third pick in the first round (48th overall), Fossum started his major league career in 2001.

During three years with Boston, Fossum moved between the bullpen and the rotation, compiling 14 victories with two saves in 75 games. After a recurrence of tendinitis in his pitching shoulder, he went surgery in September 2003. Two months later, he was sent to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the same trade that brought Curt Schilling to the Red Sox.

In 2004, and for the first time in his career, Fossum was used exclusively as a starter, finishing third on the Diamondbacks staff in starts (27), innings pitched (142.0) and strikeouts (117), despite missing the first 5 1/2 weeks to recover from surgery.

Fossum was traded to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for outfielder José Cruz, Jr. before the 2005 season.