Asked last month whether the Mets were interested, Alderson responded: “Are you insinuating we need a Hail Mary at this point?” “I’d say it’s probably unlikely but that’s without any real information on his baseball background”.
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Tebow will likely train with the Mets to be a corner outfielder, since he didn’t look comfortable as a center fielder during his workout.
Tim Tebow took his first big swings at a baseball career on August 30, showing off a powerful bat and other developing skills during a workout in front of dozens of major league scouts and reporters.
Tim Tebow is officially a Met, sort of. If there’s a downside to Tebow’s being around in camp, it would be all the media attention and whether that starts to detract from the team’s focus as it prepares for the season.
“The goal would be to have a career in the big leagues”, Tebow said in a recent statement.
Tim Tebow is a longshot to make the Majors, but he has been in that situation before as a quarterback. The worst that can happen is the Mets sell more tickets, jerseys, hats and hot dogs during spring training and one of their minor league affiliates gets a boost in ticket sales. There are dozens of players in independent baseball who have put in the work and effort to earn a shot in organized ball. He also spent one season with the New York Jets. According to his representatives, the 6-3, 255-pound Tebow has 7.3% body fat.
“The body is just outstanding”, a scout said.
Scouts reaction to Tebow ranges from “waste of time” to ‘better than I expected’.
Players who have played in both the NFL and Major League Baseball include Bo Jackson, Brian Jordan and Deion Sanders.
Tebow, who once led the Denver Broncos to a hail mary playoff win and whose plane was tracked by media nationwide when he flew to NY to sign a deal with the Jets as a backup quarterback, hasn’t played baseball regularly since his junior year of high school. “We get to do what we want”.
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Only two of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams – the Chicago Cubs and the Oakland Athletics – did not attend his open workout at the University of Southern California.
