Day 245

Fresh Start_245: Just go home Tebow, you’re drunk
This should just be short and sweet; Tim Tebow will not make the Major Leagues, or even come close to it. Just because he is hitting a few homers in A ball for the Mets, doesn’t mean he will even touch a 95+ MPH fastball from a guy like Clayton Kershaw. Officially Tebow is batting .218 with 2 homers, and 9 RBI’s for the Columbia Fireflies. Tebow has also stroke out 14 times in 55 at-bats which says something about his eye in the lowest competition in baseball.

Single A baseball is Single A baseball and is basically high school players taking a slight step up and trying to make it from having two offseason jobs to just one while in Double A.

History is also not on his side. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever and one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports. Jordan was just a below average to average Double A player, and you expect Tebow to be better? Tebow was a fantastic college football quarterback, a below average back-up quarterback in the NFL, and good pre-game analyst for the SEC Network. Tebow turned down that job to peruse a dream to play baseball.

Honestly, I cannot stand behind it. While it will grab the headlines, yes, and it’s the New York Mets, but you cannot just will things to happen in baseball. There will be a spot for Tebow where he just can’t hit anymore. There is a reason why Tebow went to the University of Florida to play college football AND get drafted into the NFL, not being drafted into baseball.

Not playing this game for 6+ years is not a good way to go about playing baseball. As one of the best baseball movies ever (Money Ball) says; “everyone is told at some point that they can no longer play the child’s game.” For Tebow, that was 6+ years ago when Tebow took the scholarship to play football at the University of Florida. Trying to will your way to the Major Leagues, will be exposed at some point soon, because that’s just baseball, and that’s okay. Tebow can just go back to the SEC Network, with everyone forgetting this happen 3 years from now.
Sources:(theringer.com, baseballreference.com)

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