Ponson attended Maria College in Aruba. He was picked higher per Orioles as an amateur within 1993. Except for the brief 2003 stint for the San Francisco Giants, he has spent his entire career in Baltimore.

When the 2003 year, he was mass produced a knight by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. (Aruba occurs as colony of the Netherlands.) This has earned him a nickname "Sir Sidney".

Ponson has acquired the reputation for existence inconsistent, especially inside relation to guide games. He has the hard smoke & the the right way slider. He has as well got problems by using his weight all over a endure pack years.

Around 200Triad, he went 14-6 using the 3.77 ERA for the Orioles. Because Baltimore was non inside contention for a playoff spot & Ponson was in a survive month of his contract, the Orioles traded Ponson to the San Fransisco Giants at the commodities trading deadline for deuce Giants prospects (Kurt Ainsworth and Damian Moss). At the prevent of a 200Ternary season, Ponson re-signed by owning the Orioles for a 3 year, Twenty-two.Five million dollar contract.

Within 2004, Ponson was a opening day starter for Baltimore. Still, he began dispatch disastrously; his record was Three-12 per Everthing-Star Break. He rebounded for when heavy 2nd half, running 8-Three. He finished by owning an 11-1Five record & the 5.Xxx ERA.

When you took a holiday year around 2004, Ponson was arrested and charged using assaulting an Aruban judge as punishment an incident all about the complaint of Ponson's treating of his motorboat. He spent the week inside pokey, however he was breathe to settle away from court inside March 2005. Within January 2005, he was charged by using driving under the influence in Broward County, Florida. Because one activities, it was thought that he would non exist as take a breath to enter Canada to pitch in a series against the Toronto Blue Jays in May 2005. Nevertheless, the visa was late granted, & he was respire to produce his scheduled run.

Baltimore attempted to trade Ponson to San Diego for first baseman Phil Nevin shortly before a 2005 trade deadline, however a treat was canceled after Nevin invoked his there is no-trade clause. Nevin in time was traded to Texas.

Early the morning of August 25, 2005, Ponsin was arrested for camping under a influence & driving spell afflicted on Interstate 95 near downtown Baltimore, Maryland. He was stopped for resulting as well closely & was afterwards arrested for the traffic violation, DUI, & DWI; he was in the future freed. This was his 2nd drunk-camping incident of 2005.

In September 1, 2005, the Orioles freed Ponson & voided his contract, saying that his violation sustaining the law went against a lesson clause inside Major League Baseball contracts. The week late, in September 8, the Major League Baseball Players Associatiin filed the grievance on Ponson's behalf.