Baseball teams will bring just about anyone on board if they think that they are capable of helping, and the fact Tebow didn’t straight-up embarrass himself in this showcase is probably a good sign. “Those would be the two things that I really want”. This is a logical thing to do for the player since there’s no guaranty that an Major League Baseball team would add him after he concluded his tryouts with them.
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ESPN reports that Tebow hopes to play in the instructional league in Arizona next month, and perhaps play winter league ball in Latin America after the season.
Tebow performed in front of the scouts at the University of Southern California baseball field, said The New York Times, and got mixed reviews.
So when he heard former major league pitcher David Aardsma, who pitched to Tebow during the football star’s hyped workout Tuesday, compared his batting stance to Teixeira’s, there was only one way the Yankees’ first baseman could respond.
He ran a 60-yard dash in 6.6 seconds, which John Morosi of the MLB Network tweeted, “By @MLB scouting standards, he’s an above average runner”.
He definitely has the skills and athleticism to make this transition happen, and nobody has ever questioned Tebow’s will to win. “I think it’s low risk, high reward for Zulia”. He shared that there is a lot that goes into all of this and that means that there is a lot of pressure, as well as a lot of nerves.
NFL Media’s Andrew Siciliano was on hand for the workout, and posted this clip of Tebow launching a home run.
Tebow was a star baseball player in high school as a sophomore and junior before concentrating on baseball.
“I thought he was OK”.
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Manager Joe Girardi said he’s rooting for Tebow, too. “It’s definitely not about money”. He feels that whether he falls flat or fails, at least he tried and it is all about making sacrifices. When did pursuing what you love become a bad thing, regardless of the result? That’s the best I can say.
