re: Has anybody looked at Tim Tebow's minor league numbers recently?

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Don't be fooled. Tim Tebow has been awful this year.

Tim Tebow drove in a pair of runs on an eighth-inning single on Sunday – his lone offensive contribution of the evening in a 7-6 loss for the Columbia Fireflies – pushing his season RBI total to nine. This milestone prompted the Fireflies' Twitter account to send a post that makes it seem like Tim Tebow has had a very productive season.

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In 37 plate appearances, Tebow is hitting .176/.243/.596. Tebow's OPS ranks sixth out of the eight Columbia players that have 20 or more plate appearances so far this season. And he's playing in a league where he is, on average, more than seven and a half years older than every other player.

That's not to say there isn't reason to think Tebow's production could improve. He's not walking much at all (5.4 percent of all plate appearances), but his strikeout rate (24.3 percent) isn't all that bad considering his .176 isolated power. If his .174 batting average on balls in play takes a turn for the better, he could be an all-power, no-OBP slugger, which has a certain amount of value.

But that's a very limited sort of value from a corner outfielder or DH, even at the Major League level. Tebow isn't doing this in MLB, though. He's a 29-year-old on a single-A team. So if he's a limited player at this level, there's not much reason to think, at an age where most hitters are already beginning their decline, he's going to have a breakthrough in AA or AAA – or, heaven help us, in MLB.

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But he sells tickets, which goes a long way in minor league A ball.

But led his team to a playoff win.....

Tebow is not good at baseball or football. He has had so many opportunities at he still can't make it. Tebow sucks

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Hadn't played in almost a decade before he decided to give it a try. And people are shocked he's not killing it right out of the box?

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Michael Jordan had better numbers in AA ball after not playing baseball for 13-14 years and 31 years old. No one is shocked at Tebow being terrible. It's just reaffirmation of the circus him playing at all is