Former NFL quarterback and current college football analyst for ESPN, Tim Tebow is going to try his hand at professional baseball. That sport is not football; it is baseball. Not even the best baseball player could take 11 years off from the game, pick up a bat and glove, and have the ability to hit a 95 miles per hour fastball on the outside corner and stay back on a nasty curveball or wicked slider.
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“As far as the skill aspect I think hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things, so it’ll be interesting to see his progress”, Decker said. Tebow has been training on the west coast for the past year, hoping to find the magic he had in high school when he was an All-State player for Nease High School in Florida.
As CBS Sports points out, even if a team picked up Tebow, it would likely start him in the minor leagues.
But just a few months after he said that, it looks like Tebow could be on the baseball diamond – not the football field. Tebow announced Tuesday through his agents that he wants to pursue a baseball career.
Rosenthal also released a statement from Chad Moeller, a former Major League catcher who has been training Tebow at Chad Moeller Baseball in Scottsdale. “I’ve never seen him play”.
The Yankees have a roster spot opening up this week, so who knows what could happen. He chose to dedicate himself to football because he loved the sport more than baseball; although, he was almost a draft pick of the Los Angeles Angels, who play in Anaheim.
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Tebow won a pair of National Championships under center for Florida and was drafted 25th overall by the Denver Broncos in 2010. “If he would have been there his senior year he definitely would have had a good chance to be drafted,” Red Sox Florida scout Stephen Hargett, who worked with the Angels, said. A left-handed hitter with power – and a good arm, of course – he was named all-state that year.
