Tim Tebow assigned by Mets to Class A ball

[True Dough]

Makes sense. He might have a degree of success at that level and he will be a draw based on his name recognition.

Tim Tebow will begin his professional baseball journey in 2017 with the New York Mets' Class A team in Columbia, South Carolina.

The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner was told Monday that he will be assigned to the Columbia Fireflies, the Mets' affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

"Sending him to a full-season club is what we hoped to be able to do," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson told Newsday. "And based on what he's done in spring training, and his whole body of work since last fall, we feel comfortable with him going to Columbia."

Tebow is hitting .235 (4-for-17) in six games for the Mets in spring training, entering Monday's Grapefruit League play. The Mets have been playing him in the outfield.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18960670/tim-tebow-play-new-york-mets-class-club-columbia-fireflies

[CanonRay]

1. Jesus will not make that little ball any bigger for Tommie

[tazkcmo]

2. At an age when most athletes

are retiring. I guess he's saved a lot of fair wear and tear on his body due to his lack of professional level athletic ability. Good on him.

[brush]

3. We all know he can't throw. And batting .235 now we all know he can't hit either

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Give it up Tebow. You shoulda stayed in football and played tight end or fullback.

Star quarterback or star outfielder for the Mets is just not in the cards for you.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. And, He Ain't Hitting Off Verlander. . .

. . .or Kershaw or Baumgardner or Arieta or Hendricks. As Lou said in "Major League 2", "yeah off a guy that'll be bagging groceries in a couple weeks."

[brush]

10. Yep! And if he wasn't Tebow, with those stats he'd be bagging groceries too

His name will get him another sports network job until he gets his next notion to play another sport...Maybe boxing or MMA or hockey. He's big enough to be a good enforcer on the ice, if he can skate that is.

And speaking of boxing (I assume everyone responding on this thread are the DU sports fans), I just saw a video on ESPN of Floyd Mayweather during halftime at an NBA game, 40-years-old now, in street clothes and shoes, all 5' 9" of him, starting from the top of the key, dribble to the basket, elevate and dunk the basketball.

Jaws dropped throughout the arena, including the players.

And I mean he didn't just barely dunk, he had his hand in the rim past his wrist.

I saw that and thought to myself, if Connor McGregor sees that, he may back out of their fight. I mean I had no idea he was that spectacular an athlete.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Funny Note

As a b-ball player my one real skill was leaping. I could dunk when i was 5'6". In fact, years later the coach and i were talking at a reunion and he told me (he was brand new to the school that year) that i made the team before the first practice even started because he saw me jump up and grab the rim with both hands from a standing start. He said he told himself that he could teach me basketball but he couldn't teach that.

Grew to 5'9" but couldn't have gotten hear the rim by the time i was 40.

The fact that Floyd could still do that is pretty remarkable even to me, who actually could do that at that height, albeit a heck of lot younger.

[brush]

12. Hats off, man. You still play?

[ProfessorGAC]

13. No Way

I'm 60 years old. I was never the "shooter dude". With the way i played, from 35 years old on, b-ball was a knee injury waiting to happen.

That and i have had MS for 20 years. Doesn't affect my life much, but any quickness i still had at 39 years old went away in a big hurry when that happened.

I did love playing pick up games and guys would enjoy me on the team because i actually craved playing D. Used to frustrate the crap out of taller guys when a guy 8 or 9 inches played physically, made them work for the ball, and then had a chance to block their shot anyway. That could really take a guy out of his game. The little guy blocked his shot. Start forcing stuff, charging, making dribbles moves they really can't make and start tossing the ball away. Kind of fun to be that annoying little bugger.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Woohoo, Class A, baby!

Will this be apex of his baseball career?

[Docreed2003]

5. If he weren't Tebow, with similar stats would he even make a single A roster?

[True Dough]

6. Hmm...

[Docreed2003]

7. Lmao...

[ProfessorGAC]

9. He Could At Least Steal Bases

And cover a lot of ground in the OF. And, if they made him mad, he might have bought the team and fired everyone.

[JonLP24]

27. I think Jordan improved as the season went on

He put in a lot of time but he just went back to basketball. I wouldn't expect Tebow to blow them out but if he puts in the time and gets better. My cousin never even made it to an affiliated minor league team. He went to the title game with the Tucson Toros as the team's starting short stop.


On, September 7, 2009, the Toros captured their very first GBL South Division Championship by defeating the St. George RoadRunners 3 games to 2 and advanced to the GBL Championship Series in their inaugural GBL season. They faced the North Division champion Calgary Vipers, and lost to the Vipers 3 games to 1 in a best of 5 championship series.

On October 27, 2010, it was announced at the GBL website that the Toros would take 2011 off due to the Triple-A Tucson Padres playing their season at Kino Stadium (formerly Tucson Electric Park).[17]

On July 21, 2011, the Toros announced on their website that members of the Yuma Scorpions would play as the Toros in a doubleheader and that it would be the team's final night in action.[18] The reason for their farewell was that the franchise received an eviction notice from the city of Tucson that their lease of Hi Corbett Field was terminated.[19]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_Toros

Afterwards he played a couple seasons with Sioux City. A lifetime .273 average in Independent League baseball. Here's the thing, he played baseball his whole life. His dad, my uncle had the 7th highest BA in Colorado High School baseball and he played in baseball leagues year round until high school and he was good too so what Tebow is accomplishing is something people work hard all their life and never threaten to make it.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. That's Pretty Cool, Jon

As to the Jordan/Tebow thing, the truth is neither get the shot if they don't have that name recognition. But, at least in the case of Jordan, Reinsdorf owed Jordan big. The value of the franchise octupled due to MJ's presence. And, he spent over half his Bulls career not even among the top 10 best payed players. (I know they made it up at the end with that 2 year windfall contract.)

With the money MJ made Jerry, the organization had no problem sending MJ to Birmingham.

[True Dough]

14. Yes, it's only Class A ball...

but Tebow hit a home run in his first AB.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19096354/tim-tebow-homers-first-bat-minor-league-debut-class-columbia-fireflies

[Brother Buzz]

15. The pitcher, Domenic Mazza, throws blistering 84 mph fastballs

Domenic is in the Giants farms system and is know for great placement control (whoops, your welcome Timmy), and will most likely become a professional golfer when he gets all this baseball stuff out of his system.

[bluedigger]

16. Followed by three strike outs and a ground out.

[True Dough]

17. Spoil sport!

Way to give the story a sour ending!

[bluedigger]

18. I don't write the stories.

I just tells 'em like I sees 'em.

[True Dough]

19. That's 2 homers in 3 games!

Positively Babe Ruthian! Put him on the mound too!

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/4/9/15237564/tim-tebow-hit-his-2nd-home-run-third-game-columbia-fireflies-baseball-mlb

[bluedigger]

20. The kid could be AAA material by 32, I tells ya!

[Brother Buzz]

21. .231 batting average, baby!

3-for-13 with five RBIs (all made on his two homers). He struck out five times and left 13 runners on base.

Keep your duffel packed, Timmy, you'll get that phone call yet.

[True Dough]

22. All the Hater-ade for Tebow here!

Good grief!

[Brother Buzz]

23. Good grief, a team needs players who can make base hits....

not 'go for broke' prima donas aiming for the damn fence.

[True Dough]

24. Some guys have made the bigs doing just that

[hughee99]

25. I was actually thinking Rob Deer

[True Dough]

26. Great on the base-paths too!

Nothing runs like a Deer!

[Brother Buzz]

28. Timmy has to hit the ball first. He's presently in a minor slump, batting a measly .174, BUT...

Timmy's minor league coach says he has MLB talent, so he has that going for him.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/12/tim-tebow-minor-league-coach-team-leader/

Keep that duffel packed, this is just a bump in the road, Mr MLB Talent.

[True Dough]

30. Tebow hits his first triple, goes 3-for-4

Raises his average to .246

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19252595/tim-tebow-columbia-fireflies-hitting-246-first-triple-3-4-day


Haters gonna hate!

[bluedigger]

31. The Mets' AA outfielders must be looking over their shoulders now.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. .246 in Single A?

And haters gonna hate? Are you kidding?
246 in A ball. 1 in 50 pitchers in A ball make the majors and he is hitting under .250
I'm not a hater. I'm a realist
BTW He can't play outfield any better than me, and I'm 60

[True Dough]

33. One step at a time,

Grasshopper!

[ProfessorGAC]

34. At This Rate...

..I'll be dead before his first MLB at bat

[True Dough]

35. Tebow edging closer to a promotion

That's right, you anti-Tebow types. Drink in the media coverage of the Mets potentially moving Tebow up to AA ball after the all-star break, if his performance continues tracking in the direction that it has been going, which is upwards!

His slash line in 28 games for the Class-A Columbia Firelies is .250/.330/.370 overall.

However, in his past 16 games, he is .327/.413/.436 with four doubles, one triple, six walks.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/tim-tebow-get-summertime-promotion-mets-152538071.html


Maybe someday, maybe...





One step at a time!

[True Dough]

36. Walk-off homer for Tebow; batting .327 in 11 games for Class A Port St. Lucie Mets

Link to tweet

HI BROTHER BUZZ!!!

[joeybee12]

37. And this is why the Mets signed him, months later this post lives

He attracts attention, good or bad. As the saying goes, all publicity is good publicity

[True Dough]

38. It's true

He's a polarizing figure. Fans love him or love to cheer against him. They all want to know how he's performing.

[joeybee12]

39. Yup

Sometimes I think hes an.evil genius and knows how to work the system and this was his plan all along

[True Dough]

40. Tebow ON FIRE since joining the Class A St. Lucie Mets

In 23 games his slash line now sits at a healthy .320/.407/.520. If he had enough plate appearances to qualify for rate stats, his .927 OPS would be third in the league.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-month-tim-tebows-ridiculed-163844102.html


TEBOW IS GOD!!!

[True Dough]

41. This one goes out to Brother Buzz!

[Brother Buzz]

42. Timmy ended his baseball season and returned to the college football analyst gig

[True Dough]

43. You forgot to mention

8 dingers and 52 RBI.

You, on the other hand, would be the team's closer because...

BROTHER BUZZ SAVES!!!

[joeybee12]

44. Kick. This thread has the potential to outlast the infamous

Suck on it you jealous douchebags theead!

[True Dough]

45. Sandy Alderson is still a believer in Tim!

Mets GM Sandy Alderson says he believes Tim Tebow will play in majors at some point

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson has an answer for anyone wondering why Tim Tebow is in the team's major league spring training camp less than two years after he returned to the game after a 12-year absence:

Tebow is going to play in the major leagues and the Mets want to get him there as quickly as possible.

"Somebody asked me whether I think he'll be a major league player at some point," Alderson said after a Sunday workout at First Data Field. "I think he will play in the major leagues. That's my guess. That's my hope, and to some extent now after a year and a half, a modest expectation."

It's the first time Alderson has been that definitive about his anticipation of the former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback's future, but he is pleased with the progress Tebow has made since the team signed him on Sept. 8, 2016. That's why Tebow was one of the 15 non-roster invitees who will work in the Mets' big league camp over the next six weeks.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22493923/new-york-mets-general-manager-sandy-alderson-thinks-tim-tebow-play-major-leagues

[True Dough]

46. I blame the bad karma from Brother Buzz! ;)

Tim Tebow has broken hamate bone, likely out remainder of season

New York Mets minor leaguer Tim Tebow has a broken hamate bone in his right hand and is likely out for the remainder of the season, an MLB source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Tebow is scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday.

The Binghamton outfielder sustained the injury in Friday night's game against Eastern League opponent Trenton. Binghamton is the Mets' Double-A affiliate. He was placed on the disabled list Saturday.

Tebow played in the Eastern League All-Star Game earlier this month. He is batting .273 with six home runs and 36 RBIs and a team-high 103 strikeouts in 83 games.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24175258/mets-minor-leaguer-tim-tebow-broken-hamate-bone-likely-rest-season