Marcus Jensen

Marcus Jensen was a baseball catcher who helped the United States win a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also took home a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Jensen was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the first round, with the 33rd selection, of the 1990 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft. He was once called the Giants’ “catcher of the future,” but he struggled in the major leagues.

Jensen played in the bigs from 1996-2002, for two years with the Giants, and then had brief stints with the Detroit Tigers (1997), Milwaukee Brewers (1998), St. Louis Cardinals (1999), Minnesota Twins (2000), Boston Red Sox (2001), Texas Rangers (2001), and Milwaukee Brewers (2002). He then played minor league ball for a few seasons before retiring as a player in January 2007.

Jensen went into coaching, becoming a hitting coach with the Oakland Athletics in 2007. From 2009 through 2013, he was the manager of the Arizona Athletics of the Rookie-level Arizona League. In 2015, he became a hitting instructor for the Oakland Athletics in MLB.