After Hitting A Cool .056 This Spring, Tim Tebow Will Get A Promotion To Double-A To Start The Year

I feel like every time that I write about Tim Tebow, I have to preface it by saying that I’m not a Tebow hater because there are rarely very many things to write about him from a baseball perspective that could be positive. That being said, yes, I am rooting for him. I want him to do well. I think it would be cool if he made it to the big leagues and actually earned it. And yes, I think he actually could get called up to a major league roster some day. It’s a different question of whether or not he will have earned that honor.

When he first worked out for major league teams prior to being signed by the Mets, I said that he looked like a Hollywood fitness model who was auditioning to play the role of a baseball player in a movie. You know, the guys who look like they’re in excellent shape to play baseball but also look like they’ve never played in a single game of organized baseball in their entire lives. That was Tebow.

After a year in pro ball, I came off that assessment and wrote that his ceiling was Double-A. Knowing now that the Mets plan to start Tebow at Double-A to start the year after hitting .056 (1-for-18) with 11 strikeouts during his time in big league camp and posting a .664 OPS in 242 plate appearances at High-A last year, then yeah. He’ll eventually get the call up to the big leagues, because it’s obvious now that the Mets are throwing a puppy in the deep end and seeing if it can swim.

His promotions have never been based on actual results, and have purely been decisions to experiment with how well or how poorly he actually looks against better competition, when truth be told, he never excelled by any means at even the lowest level possible, yet he continues to climb the minor league baseball ladder. And I’m sure there are minor league guys who can’t stand that this is happening, but from an organizational perspective, I get it. The minor leagues are all about promotion, and there’s no bigger minor league attraction than Tebow. Spread the Tebow attraction at every level you’ve got. I’m fine with that.

But if and when Tebow gets called up to the big leagues, he’d better have earned it. And I’ve got a feeling that A.) He is going to get called up to the big leagues before he calls it a career, and B.) He’s not going to have even remotely earned it.