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Marlon Byrd
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 834 of 1271 players
Byrd
Marlon Jerrard Byrd
Born: August 30, 1977 at Boynton Beach, Fla.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.00 Weight: 225

Marlon Byrd was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on January 26, 2019, July 8, 2023, August 27, 2024, and December 30, 2024.

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First Mets game: April 1, 2013
Last Mets game: August 26, 2013

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Paul Zibben
July 25, 2013
 Give Sandy Alderson credit for this one. He got Marlon Byrd off the junkheap, and the guy is currently leading the team in homers, is playing an excellent outfield, and seems to be a good guy in the clubhouse as well. Everyone keeps waiting for him to fall on his face and it hasn't happened yet. I know he's not so young, but he may be a keeper anyway.

Mitch
August 28, 2013
 The Mets have a knack of bringing players off the junk heap and getting career years out of them. In the spring of 1986, Ray Knight seemed washed up and the Mets were on the verge of releasing him. He responded with a .298 BA, 11 HR and 76 RBI. In the 1996-97 offseason, the Mets signed former "scab" Rick Reed, a nobody from nowhere, and he ended up being one of the great Mets pitchers of the late 1990's. In 2006, the Mets signed 36 year old Jose Valentin, who was at the end of his career, and he responded with an 18 HR, 62 RBI, .271 season that was a big part of the Mets NL East crown. Marlon Byrd was another of these diamonds in the rough. Coming off a 50 game PED suspension and without a dominant season since '09, Byrd had a fine year (21, 71, .285) and was one of the stars of the club. He was a good guy, by all accounts and a team leader for the young guys. Good luck to him with the Pirates.

Hot Foot
September 6, 2013
 Marlon was great for the Mets this year. His professionalism was apparent from the beginning. I remember hearing about how he used to run extra wind-sprints in the outfield before games to get ready around the time Juan Lagares was first called up. Terry Collins said it set an example to young players like Lagares. When I heard that, I was like, YOU BETTER be running as much as Marlon is.

I gotta say, Marlon was my favorite Mets right fielder since Darryl Strawberry. He played with heart. He played consistently excellent defense - how many great diving catches did he make? He had power. And most of all, he was a great influence in the clubhouse.

I hope the Pirates make a run in the playoffs this year, just for his sake.

Murphy
April 1, 2014
 My 2013 memory of Marlon Byrd wasn't even with the Mets. I was at PNC Park for the one-game playoff between the Pirates and the Reds. Second inning - Byrd's first postseason plate appearance - and he ripped a Johnny Cueto fastball into the leftfield seats. The crowd went ballistic, and Cueto went into a complete meltdown. It was great for Byrd, who was one of the few Mets hitters in 2013 that was worth watching on a daily basis.

Earl
August 11, 2015
 Great pick up at the time, and they got a good trade out of him as well, picking up a solid reliever who if only he could stay healthy and a pretty good young 2nd baseman in Dilson Herrera.

Alex
May 2, 2022
 Marlon Byrd was awesome. A totally unexpected diamond-in-the-rough that truly exceeded all expectations. He was a top prospect at one point, but had never really found his groove. By the time he reached the Mets, he was more than a decade into his career and he had never hit more than 20 home runs in a season.

With the Mets, he knocked 21 in just 117 games. He was having his career year, an All-Star quality campaign, at age 35 (granted, he was an actual All-Star in 2010 as well). And this was coming off two thoroughly mediocre seasons; in 2012, he hit .210 in 143 at-bats.

So of course, the Mets traded him away toward the end of the season for nobody of consequence, and now all Byrd is is a fond memory and a Met evanescent.

Alex
September 4, 2024
 I liked Byrd with New York, but in a way, his stay was bittersweet. His resurgence started with the club in 2013 and began a run in which he averaged 24 home runs and 82 RBI per year through 2015.

Well done, New York, you resuscitated Marlon Byrd.

The bummer, of course, is that Byrd didn't even spend one full year with New York, so that little run of excellence mostly happened elsewhere, including with the division rival Phillies.

Doh!

(And to make matters worse, I've sent him four autograph requests in my day, the first in '07 and the most recent in 2020, but he hasn't responded.)

William Iovelli
May 2, 2025
 To many Marlon Byrd was just an above-average to very good player whose short time with the Mets means nothing but to me his time with the Mets was very special. I came into the fold around 2012 with my first game being a late August 2-1 victory against the Florida Marlins in 2011 (for context I was born in 2006) so I grew up with the awful teams of the early 2010s. I saw Colin Cowgill and Andrew Brown start opening day; wow those times were rough.

I fell in love with Byrd in the early part of the 2013 season. I was a six year old I wanted to see some serious power and as lucky I was to see the latter half of David Wright's prime with him hitting many memorable homers, his power numbers fell after 2005-2011ish. This was before I really started watching every game late in the 2012 season. At the beginning of 2013 Byrd was the first true slugger I watched on the Mets every single day. I saw Marlon club numerous clutch home runs both on TV and at a number of games I went to.

I still very clearly remember where I was when I heard the news he was traded to Pittsburgh (Weird to think of them as a playoff team) I was in my grandparents basement in Brampton, Ontario. My dad calmed me down after I was done crying saying how the Mets got a future star in Dilson Herrera whom I thought was the real deal his entire time with the org because we gave up such a good player in my eyes to get him.

Byrd's time in Queens is overall very nostalgic to be and is connected to a bunch of completely random tidbits of that era of Mets baseball from late 2012 to 2014, basically everything from when I started watching to when we won the 2015 NL Pennant. For example when I think of Byrd I imagine the 2013 ASG, the bright orange Los Mets jersey and last but not least the short but very fun peak of Jenrry Mejia.

Marlon is very much a random player to associate with all of this but he was without a doubt my favorite player when all of the things I mentioned above were happening. His 2013 season is still one of the reasons why I have loved the Mets all these years later.








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