Tim Tebow officially began his baseball career Monday when he had his first workout with the New York Mets at the club’s instructional-league camp in Florida.
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“Tebow”s debut on Monday drew about 600 fans, 70 media members and a TV news helicopter. (AP) – Mets fans can buy a few jerseys featuring names of players in the team’s instructional league.
“When Giambi got older, he started being more upright because he had the bad knees and stuff”. And in the only way it can be covered, we received an over-the-top amount of details about Tebow’s first home run and workout with the Mets.
“That’s not a lot of weight for me to carry, ” Tebow said. The hype or no hype. “I try not to pay attention at all and just focus on being a baseball player.”. A player evaluation after 48 hours, and based upon simple drills and batting practice carried out by an athlete who hasn’t played organized baseball since high school, may be daunting for any talent evaluator. Tebow has already ventured out on a shopping trip and mingled with some locals, who enthusiastically welcomed him to his temporary home in Port St. Lucie.
Tebow said he will just focus on the workout between the lines. “It was great to just go through a warmup and go through drills, just have fun, take (batting practice), get to know all the guys, try to remember as many names as possible”. Getting into the building. “Felt like I did a little bit better and just trying to improve”.
Still, it wasn’t as if he just fit into the crowd, not when you’re 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, with a Heisman Trophy and two national championships on your resume, and moonlighting as an SEC analyst on the weekends, working the Auburn-LSU game on Saturday.
Cespedes jerseys, they’re big sellers. Third was the Chicago Cubs’ NL Central champion T-shirts.
Samardzija was asked such a question Tuesday.
And, of course, it marked the Mets’ first opportunity to sell Tim Tebow jerseys, which hit online stores this past weekend.
“We don’t need to be answering hypotheticals right now, ” Tebow said.
“I’m going to play”, he said. “He said the logistical issues from the first day “ how to get to the clubhouse, where the practice fields are, meeting his campmates (some of whom are teenagers) “ are behind him.
“I’m a fan because he’s philanthropic, I’m a fan because he’s done so much for children, I’m a fan because he speaks around the world and has opened hospitals and I just think he’s an fantastic person”, Guercio said. “So I’m going to do the best I can at that”. “Then it’s all about trying to stand for it the right way”.
“I think it’s cool, ” said Mets starter Steven Matz, who spent two days in camp with Tebow before leaving Tuesday afternoon for a scheduled bullpen session Wednesday in NY, and a potential Friday night against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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As the interviews and autograph requests recede, Tebow will work on forming relationships with his coaches and teammates and traveling the hard, improbable road to extended baseball employment.
