Tim Tebow Makes the Eastern League All-Star Team

Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow. Photo by Gary Mccullough/CSM/REX/Shutterstock

On Friday we got another proof that baseball career of former Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is for real. It was announced that Tebow, who plays as an outfielder for the New York Mets’ Double-A affiliate Binghamton Rumble Ponies, made the Eastern League All-Star team. Four other Rumble Ponies’ players – Patrick Mazeika, Levi Michael, Nabil Crismatt and Daniel Zamora – also made the team.

Tim Tebow played 67 games in 2018 season and has been getting better with each passing month. He is batting .261 with 12 doubles and has five home runs alongside 30 RBI. His good games obviously didn’t go unnoticed and even the coaches around the league recognized his progress.

I saw him last year at [Single-A] Columbia. He’s come a really long way,” -Class AA Hartford manager Warren Schaeffer told New York Post. “He’s a tough out right now. We had a really tough time against Tim Tebow. He hits fastballs well. He’s a strong kid. His approach has gotten a lot better. He’s spitting on pitches now he wasn’t early on this year. You can tell he works hard. Before, you could beat him with a lot of stuff. You beat him hard in, beat him soft away. He had a quite a few holes [in his swing] earlier on. Now the holes have gotten smaller and smaller.”

After winning Heisman Trophy and two National Championships as the quarterback for Florida Gators, Tim Tebow was selected 25th overall by the Denver Broncos in the 2010 NFL Draft. His game, however, didn’t translate to NFL and he didn’t play a single game in the league since 2012.

In 2016, when it became evident that he will not get another chance in NFL, Tim Tebow declared an interest to play baseball professionally. He ended up signing a minor league contract with the New York Mets and played for several affiliates before getting promoted to Binghamton Rumble Ponies.

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