{"id":65,"date":"2016-08-14T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-10-31T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T03:51:03","slug":"tim-tebow-baseball-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/08\/14\/tim-tebow-baseball-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tebow, Baseball Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We may be seeing some possible identity theft going on here. Get<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksbo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bo Jackson<\/a><\/strong> on the phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TeboTi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Tebow<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s agents, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sextoji01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Sexton<\/a><\/strong> and<strong> Nick Khan<\/strong>, announced today that the former <strong>Heisman Trophy<\/strong>\u00a0winner and former <strong>NFL<\/strong>\u00a0quarterback is now actively pursuing a career in professional baseball. Of course, Tebow would not be the first star athlete to play in multiple professional sports leagues (i.e. Bo Jackson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a>). However, this situation is a bit different.<\/p>\n<h2>Tim Tebow, Baseball Star?<\/h2>\n<p>Tebow is making this change after not playing competitive baseball for 11 years. The last time he played was in 2005, his junior year of high school. In his junior season, Tebow earned a .494 average. He accumulated four home runs and 30 RBIs, including all-state honors in the state of Florida, according to <strong>Aaron Torres<\/strong> of Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow is known for trying to make comebacks, after spending two years with the <strong>Denver Broncos<\/strong> and one with the<strong>New York Jets<\/strong>. He hasn\u2019t played for a team since 2012, despite persistently trying to make rosters. He most recently got cut from the <strong>Philadelphia Eagles<\/strong> roster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally posted on our parent site, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Sports<\/a>. It can be read in full at the site. We are now expanding, with a dedicated site for all your baseball analysis, news and opinion. So stay tuned to <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Baseball<\/a>, where we will bring you all of your favorite Last Word features, and much more, from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be seeing some possible identity theft going on here. Get Bo Jackson on the phone. Tim Tebow\u2018s agents, Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan, announced today that the former Heisman Trophy\u00a0winner and former NFL\u00a0quarterback is now actively pursuing a career in professional baseball. Of course, Tebow would not be the first star athlete to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-tim-tebow"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}