Mets sign Tebow to minor-league contract

Tim Tebow has signed with another orange and blue team and is headed back to NY!

Tebow will report to the Mets’ instructional league in Port St. Lucie, Fla., according to a news release. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said on the conference call that signing Tebow was a “classic player-development opportunity”, for the organization.

Tebow was a first-round draft pick for the Denver Broncos in 2010 before being traded to the New York Jets in 2012.

Tebow last played baseball during his junior year in high school in 2005, when he hit four homers and batted.494.

For the Mets, the signing of Tebow will have some benefits. The highlights of his collegiate career include winning the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and capturing BCS National Championships in both 2006 and 2008.

As is plainly visible, the Mets tweeted their signing of Tim Tebow this morning, along with a large picture of Tebow’s face for anyone who had forgotten what he’d looked like.

Brodie Van Wagenen, Tebow’s baseball agent at CAA, told reporters that several clubs stayed after the workout to meet face-to-face with Tebow.

Speculation will invariably begin to swirl about Tebow’s chances of ever playing in Major League Baseball.

The Atlanta Braves were among the teams that had expressed an interest in signing Tebow. If the former quarterback turns out to be a two-sport whiz kid, he gets a new career and the team has at best a promising prospect and at worst a marquee name for the Brooklyn Cyclones over the summer.

It’s easy to make fun of Tebow for this; good luck trying to figure out how he can be fully committed to the experiment when he’s not fully committed to the experiment.

Tebow was an accomplished high school baseball player before fully turning his attention to football where he would enjoy a storied college career for the Florida Gators.

He spent one preseason each with the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, but was cut before the regular season. If Tebow has success, it will help a Mets’ farm system that is rather weak at this point.