At least one Major League Baseball team has reported legitimate interest in signing former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.
According to ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick, Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella confirmed that the team had multiple conversations with Tebow’s representation in hopes of signing the former quarterback. Crasnick said that Coppolella called Tebow a “low-risk” investment. But Crasnick also points out that Tebow is very well known and loved in the southeast for obvious reasons.
Coppolella reiterated that it was Tebow’s potential that has Atlanta interested, and it would be strictly a baseball move:
“We are interested in Tim because of his potential as a baseball player, not as a gate attraction,” Coppolella said during the Braves’ series with the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. “We have spoken with his representatives multiple times and all parties involved want this to be a pure baseball thing on every level.”
Along with the Braves, apparently the Colorado Rockies have expressed interest in Tebow. Per Crasnick, Tebow’s representatives would like him to sign a contract in time to attend the instructional league and possibly play in the Arizona Fall League this offseason. There is also the possibility of Tebow playing winter ball.
The Braves have been known to sign two-sport athletes in the past. The team has had Deion Sanders and Brian Jordan on rosters in the 1990s. While it’s not the same organization up top, it does seem like a Braves move.
Surely it would make a lot of folks in SEC Country happy as well.
[ESPN]
