The Mets threw away a spring coaching roster place of residing after they invited Tim Tebow to camp

The Mets possess executed properly in constructing their roster this offseason. The front self-discipline of work is showing a bigger dedication to profitable below contemporary owner Steve Cohen.

But then they went and invited Tim Tebow to main league spring coaching all over again.

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Let’s be insist: They wasted the invite. They might be able to deserve to possess assigned him to minor league camp as a substitute. They might be able to deserve to possess popular the roster place of residing on a free agent who’s in actuality in a position to play in the majors. Group president Sandy Alderson will deserve to possess in the kill ended the Tebow “publicity stunt.”

Tebow hasn’t done properly satisfactory in the minor leagues to receive the invite. His most contemporary season, 2019, ended with him injured and carrying a .495 OPS and 37.1 strikeout price at Triple-A Syracuse. Accidents interrupted his 2018 season, too, when he confirmed promise at Double-A. 

Now he’s 33 and he hasn’t swung a bat in a aggressive environment in a 365 days and a half.

At this stage, the group’s Tebow indulge in shouldn’t factual be about selling tickets or generating publicity. Attendance shall be restricted for exhibitions in Port St. Lucie and for the early portion of the Triple-A season in Syracuse. Demand for tickets must peaceable easily be met, with out Tebow’s support.

This transfer, then, must be about baseball, too. Does Alderson peaceable deem that Tebow has main league potential? From this vantage level, he’s incorrect if he believes that.

Here is a partial checklist of on hand free-agent outfielders the Mets could perchance possess tried to ask to camp as a substitute: Cameron Maybin, Kevin Pillar, Yasiel Puig, Danny Santana. Jay Bruce, furthermore 33, signed a minor league maintain the Yankees on Saturday. He’s a actual left-handed-hitting depth fragment.

Even a minor league free agent like Braxton Lee, who done with Tebow at Syracuse, would possess made more sense.

Cohen stated in his introduction as owner, “I am no longer on this to be mediocre.” About a months later, the front self-discipline of work threw away a spring roster place of residing on Tebow, who hasn’t shown he’ll even be even mediocre as a spacious leaguer.

Alderson desires to let it hasten. Tebow’s a excellent guy, but he’s no longer a honest participant. The Mets shouldn’t possess notion twice about interesting somebody who’s better.