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Jeffrey Alan Byrd (born November 11, 1956 in La Mesa, California) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher in 1977 for the Toronto Blue Jays. Byrd was drafted out of El Capitan High School in Lakeside, California in the second round of the 1974 MLB Draft by the Texas Rangers. He turned pro in 1974, playing with the Rangers Gulf Coast League team, earning a 4-1 record and an ERA of 2.87 in nine starts. In 1975, Byrd moved up to the Anderson Rangers of the Western Carolinas League, in which he had a 7-11 record in 22 starts for the club. The following season in 1976, the Rangers moved Byrd... MORE

Jeffrey Alan Byrd (born November 11, 1956 in La Mesa, California) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher in 1977 for the Toronto Blue Jays. Byrd was drafted out of El Capitan High School in Lakeside, California in the second round of the 1974 MLB Draft by the Texas Rangers. He turned pro in 1974, playing with the Rangers Gulf Coast League team, earning a 4-1 record and an ERA of 2.87 in nine starts. In 1975, Byrd moved up to the Anderson Rangers of the Western Carolinas League, in which he had a 7-11 record in 22 starts for the club. The following season in 1976, the Rangers moved Byrd up to AA baseball, where he joined the San Antonio Brewers of the Texas League, where Byrd once again posted a 7-11 record, however his ERA went up to 5.22, as well as 106 walks in 143 innings pitched. On November 5, 1976, Byrd was left unprotected in the 1976 MLB Expansion Draft, where the Toronto Blue Jays selected him with the 21st pick in the draft. The Blue Jays, an expansion team in 1977, did not have a AA team affiliated with their club that season, sent Byrd to the Cleveland Indians AA team in the Eastern League, the Jersey City Indians. Byrd had a poor record of 1-4, however, he had a LESS