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Tim Tebow, the Heisman winning college QB turned marginal NFL quarterback turned ESPN broadcaster is now going to try his hand at … professional baseball?
That was the word from Tebow's agents, who told ESPN and other outlets that their client has been training to be a professional ballplayer for the better part of a year.
It sounds like part Michael Jordan (who tried his hand at baseball before going back to hoops) and part Brett Favre (who had a hard time staying out of the spotlight, even after his career was over).
That said, Tebow isn't starting from nowhere — given he was an all-state baseball player in high school and is clearly a gifted athlete (jokes about his passing accuracy aside). He hasn't played baseball full-time for a decade, but he has been training hard lately — specifically with Chad Moeller.
If that names sounds familiar it's because Moeller is a former MLB catcher who was drafted by the Twins and played for them as a rookie in 2000 before bouncing around to several other teams in an 11-year major league career.
Moeller tweeted a short video Tuesday of Tebow taking some left-handed swings in the batting cage.
As for whether Tebow's baseball career will amount to anything more than publicity? That remains to be seen. But I did reach out to the St. Paul Saints to see if there might be any interest.
Sean Aronson, the Saints' Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting, said he brought up the subject of Tebow to manager George Tsamis and was told — paraphrasing here — that the Saints would love to have a left-handed hitter like Tebow, especially one who would be considered a rookie, at CHS Field.
