Posted on 07/21/2017 5:54:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Last statistic I saw said that maybe one A league player in ten will make it to the majors for at least one game, and one A league player in twenty five will stick in the majors for any length of time. Tebow still has a ways to go.
love love LOVE Tim Tebow!
Single A is above college level. It’s not easy. Reminds me of how remarkable Michael Jordan was. I think he made it to AA?
I’ve read speculation that Tebow may get a September call-up when the rosters expand. That would be cool to see.
Tim Tebow is really and Truly a GOOD man.
He’s got his sea legs....
HUGE Michael Jordan fan here. Got to see him play his first year with the Chicago Bulls when walking up to Chicago Stadium and getting a game night ticket for face value at the box office window was still possible.
Having said that, the only reason Michael Jordan made it to AA and had one game with the White Sox was, well, because he was Michael Jordan and Jerry Reinsdorf (Owner of the Bulls and White Sox) was a personal friend of Michael Jordan.
The Sox started him at double A Birmingham so he didn't have to move up through the system. He didn't play in 1995 because of the players strike. I think he had one game resembling major league - an exhibition game between the Cubs and the Sox.
Isn’t there a Netflix documentary on Michael Jordan’s baseball career? It was amazing esp the part when his team mates played three on three half court basketball with him. They said he was like lightening.
He will never see a pitch in the majors. Tim is a nice guy, but he has zero major league skills. Most anyone can hit a fast ball. Was watching the MLB show a short while ago that shows all the high lights of last nights games. Some guy from Cincinnati, not bigger than 185 pounds max, turned on a 100 MPH fastball and hit it over the right field wall. Fast balls can be hit out. This season is proof of that in that so many are hitting homeruns while you have 95% of the leagues throwing 95 MPH or greater. The THING is, can you hit a pitch that has “wrinkles” in it? Can you hit a 90 or 95 MPH slider that breaks your back? You have to hit curves, sliders, cutters, etc., to hang in the majors. If you don’t hit those “a little bit”, you might as well go sell Lady Kenmores at Sears. The inability to hit breaking balls is why you see so many guys hitting .235, but have 25 HRs and 55 RBIs, and striking out 150 times a year. When I was a kid playing, I played from age 8 until 19, and then played baseball and fast-pitch softball in the Army, but when I played, it was a embarrassment to strikeout. You simply felt like a total failure to strikeout. Not today. They think a strikeout is just another out, but it is not. IF, if you put the ball in play, other things can happen. They can make an error, you move a runner up a base, etc. But, on a strikeout, you walk back to the dugout and the runners stand there and scratch themselves waiting on the next hitter to do something. No, Tim cannot hit MLB pitching and he will never play MLB. Some team might, MIGHT bring him up for “show” at the end of the season for drawing fans to a losing team or something, but not to a team to win. Ain’t going to happen.
He threw a football like one throws a baseball.
Unless a player is a first-round draft pick, chances are less than 50-50 he will ever get an MLB AB.
As to doing better at higher minor levels, there are players who have explained that pitchers at higher levels are much better at pounding the strike zone, so a talented batter doesn’t feel such pressure to hit bad pitches just to impress.
The original scouting on Tebow was that he wouldn’t be a great hitter, but might hit enough to make MLB with defensive skills. It’s his defensive OF skills that have been a bust. He’s still just a PR stunt, but a money-making one!
Anyone who mentions Lebron James in the same sentence as him just cannot be taken seriously IMO.
I respectfully disagree with that. He won't see a pitch in the majors because his talent take him there, but he still has freak-show value and he may get a call up after Labor Day just to hype attendance.
Tim is a nice guy, but he has zero major league skills. Most anyone can hit a fast ball.
He is, by all accounts, a very nice guy and I wish him well. But professional sports isn't where his future lies.
I think it was a 30 X 30? No?
I’m from Chicago, and I relished those years. The game where he corners the stuffs Shaq, stealing the ball was amazing. And the final game he played with a 102 fever.
The Mets are seven games under .500, and don’t have a snowball’s chance in Orlando during a thunderstorm of making it to the playoffs this year—it will be the division winners, with DBacks and the Rockies wild cards. Tebow will be called up in September for pinch-hit duty, and that will either convince him to go back to SEC football analysis, or fire him up to train off-season in order to make AA or AAA next year.
If he makes it to AA and hits 300 that would be amazing. AAA? Doubt it, but then again who knows. There are a lot of guys who never make it to the majors, but play a long career in the minors.
That would make two of us. I haven't been able to watch a basketball game since Michael Jordan retired. It's just not the same.
The Jordan/Bird/Johnson era was the greatest in basketball, period.
Still, it takes amazing talent to attempt to enter this level of baseball not having played it since high school. I would give odds 1 in 1,000.
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