Late scratch. Reyes, 3b Cabrera, ss [crossout]Cespesdes, lf[/crossout] Tebow, lf Granderson, cf Flores, 2b Bruce, rf I'm So Loney, I Could Cry, 1b d�Arnaud, c Gsellman, sp
"The Mets may have signed Tim Tebow to play in the Instructional League, but you're not likely to ever see him in a Met uniform. Here he is in a Mets uniform."
Also notable that two recent Met draftees -- David Thompson and Witt Haggard -- went to college to play quarterback but gravitated toward baseball when faced with a Division I depth chart.
I'm just remembering, besides Dozier, there was another all-America Florida-quarteback type who labored as a Mets minor leaguer for a bit. Gave up about six or seven years ago. And last I checked, they still hold the rights to NFL receiver Bradley Marquez
I have no problem with the notion of who has earned what. Athletes have skills to sell, some they have been blessed with and some they have honed. I have no reason to believe his are worth more or less than Will Barring's or Hengelbert Rojas'. Nor any reason to believe there is some sort of hard limit on developmental league roster spots. Hmmm ... forty-nine posts and not a single D.J. Dozier reference.
Remember (two months ago!) when it was common wisdom that Harvey's thoracic outlet syndrome proved the Nats did everything right with Strasburg and the Mets everything wrong with Harvey?
soupcan wrote: He's 29! Who signs a 29 year-old if not for the publiciity? It's been done. And I've got nothing against Baseball Michael Jordan either. There ain't a lot of 31-32 year-olds who haven't played since high school who could start their careers in AA and hit .202. Good for him for trying.
Lefty Specialist wrote: Pointless distraction. I'm not angry, just that they've got better things to do. When he throws the ball in from the outfield does it drop short of the second baseman? Getting an early start on the pre-emptive mocking. I doubt this ever distracted anyone from anything. Signing players to develop is always part of what they are doing no matter what else is going on. Half of the Tebow non-story is people getting distracted complaining about the distraction. I don't know that he'll be an outfielder, but I doubt he'll have the worst arm the league. metsmarathon wrote: i am thoroughly ok with this, and quietly hopeful that it actually develops into something. because tebow is a seemingly genuinely good dude who does not deserve all the bullshit that people give him for being a seemingly genuinely good dude. Hope! It's fun and doesn't cost you anything! Sign Usain Bolt while you're at it!