Tim is trending on Twitter right now. Footage from his workout available for those who give a flying you know what.
Looks like legit skills to me...+ speed, + power. Would have loved to have seen him do it 5 years sooner. Would think there's going to be a long learning curve to hitting professional pitching and tracking professional fly balls in the outfield.
bigcubbiefan posted:Looks like legit skills to me...+ speed, + power. Would have loved to have seen him do it 5 years sooner. Would think there's going to be a long learning curve to hitting professional pitching and tracking professional fly balls in the outfield.
Funny I don't see that all.
granted there are many ways to swing a bat but I don't think he is all that close.
I probably could have said it better...looks like legit tools to me. The skills have to be developed and they haven't been over the past 10+ years. Don't see it happening but he looks a heck of a lot better swinging a bat than my all time sports hero Michael Jordan did in my eyes.
Man, I watch this: https://twitter.com/TaylorBlak...s/770685383797383168
and think he should be playing football (though not quarterback). 6'3" 255 lb and he was clocked today at 6.65 - 6.82 in the 60. If he were willing to not be a QB, he'd be in the NFL now, IMHO.
Dude has power. Whether it will translate to in-game . . . I'm skeptical.
bigcubbiefan posted:Looks like legit skills to me...+ speed, + power. Would have loved to have seen him do it 5 years sooner. Would think there's going to be a long learning curve to hitting professional pitching and tracking professional fly balls in the outfield.
Watched the video, based on the throws from RF, I can see why he couldn't make it in the NFL as a QB. He runs flyball routes like a DH, too, which even given decent enough speed isn't going to hack it unless he hits a ton.
Jerry. Did you get to go to this?
Tebow's showcase
Insulting.
Interesting article on the workout here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...?tid=pm_sports_pop_b
It winds up:
MLB scouts weigh in on Tim Tebow’s baseball workout - The Washington Post
One scout said he would expect a team to take a flyer for, say, a bonus of around $100,000 and send Tebow to instructional league this fall. Another wondered if any club would want the inevitable sideshow that would come with signing him.
But the Tebow baseball experiment, according to a few who are paid to evaluate such things, almost certainly didn’t end Tuesday.
“I would say at least half of the teams that were here today would have some interest,” the AL scout said. “I don’t know to what extent, and I’m still processing my own thoughts. But at the end of the day, he’s interesting, for sure.”
Well, he won't have to live on $1,500 per month:
Dave Dombrowski wouldn't comment on Tebow's potential. He didn't feel it was right to comment and affect his chances. He did say it's very unlikely the Sox would be involved.
Just read between the lines on what he did say. However, the Sox don't need any 30+ outfielders. They have three young starters (Bradly, Betts and Benintendi), capable backups (Young and Holt) and a loaded farm system.
I find it really funny that the scouts who liked him are willing to give their names. The scouts who didn't all remain "anonymous". Seems some of those guys had already decided that he wasn't going to get a shot. I'm guessing they want to remain anonymous so they don't look like fools if by chance he ends up being worth something. Kind of like him in football.....I think for whatever reason a lot of teams just weren't willing to give him a shot even if they thought he could play. Not sure what this guy has ever done to people....but it seems like the ones who hate him....just hate him
I wished he would of just signed to a team that is willing to work with him and give him a chance. I don't see the need of a tryout and go to the highest bidder type environment.
The Doctor posted:I wished he would of just signed to a team that is willing to work with him and give him a chance. I don't see the need of a tryout and go to the highest bidder type environment.
You see the need. ... hype. The man misses the spotlight.
RJM makes a good point. The sports spotlight is all this kid has known for most of his adult life. The only thing he knows how to do is be an athlete. He has been told how great an athlete he is for so long that he just can't let it go. He has few other marketable skills. His major in "family, community and youth sciences" doesn't give him many options, at least not the options he wants. He's grasping at straws at this point.
You and RJM have made completely unfair conjectures as to the man's motives. Furthermore, the guy has plenty of money, and despite his degree, could go out an do any number of things. His name would get him by in insurance, pharm. sales, opening a car dealership or whatever he wanted. He would kill it.
If Tebow were interested in lime-light, and riches, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't go the minor league baseball route. Not real glamourous.
If Tebow were a high school senior, people would be drooling over his potential. It's not like he sucks. Is he too old for his level of raw potential? Maybe. But the minors are full of guys who are roster fillers for the real prospects. Are they delusional? Are they in it for the lime-light? Are they taking a true prospect's place?
Matt13 posted:2020dad posted:G There are so many horrific back up and third string qb's in the nfl. I truly believe he is out of work because of his strong religious beliefs. What a sad world we live in.
No, he's out of work because he's no good as an NFL quarterback, not because of some made-up Christian persecution.
Agreed. His strong religious beliefs have nothing to do with it. The real problem is that he can be a good NFL quarterback, but only in a specific system built around him. So, if he's your starter, you're SOL if he goes down because you'll have to change your system entirely for the backup to take over and, if he's your backup, you will need to change your system if he has to take over.
And the scouts that downplayed his baseball performance are realists. He can obviously hit BP, but so can all sorts of people. It's not remotely clear that he's capable of playing a defensive position, and he's almost 30, and the only guys who debut at his age haven't taken a decade off from baseball beforehand.
Teaching Elder posted:You and RJM have made completely unfair conjectures as to the man's motives. Furthermore, the guy has plenty of money, and despite his degree, could go out an do any number of things. His name would get him by in insurance, pharm. sales, opening a car dealership or whatever he wanted. He would kill it.
If Tebow were interested in lime-light, and riches, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't go the minor league baseball route. Not real glamourous.
If Tebow were a high school senior, people would be drooling over his potential. It's not like he sucks. Is he too old for his level of raw potential? Maybe. But the minors are full of guys who are roster fillers for the real prospects. Are they delusional? Are they in it for the lime-light? Are they taking a true prospect's place?
yes the minors are full of those guys...guys who aren't good enough, lucky enough, missed the window - whatever. Is Tebow one of them? yes I think it is highly probable (I actually think it is certain but it doesn't matter) most of those guys have no skills outside of baseball, no professional network, they have little no name recognition outside the hometown they grew up in and little to no earning potential outside of the game...so where are they are going?
They stay there and get what they can, built the personal network, try get a job with an organization, college, travel team - sell lessons on the line of "former pro-player" Honestly who has spent any reasonable amount of time in higher levels of baseball and doesn't know 10 to 20 former pros coaching u-15 or some random age and giving lessons??
Tebow in theory doesn't need to do that, he isn't going to make the MLB and he is just creating a show...he may be genuine, talented and very good man...I also believe he is an attention freak.