Tim Tebow's baseball critics are suddenly not laughing anymore
Don’t look now, but much to the chagrin of his harshest critics, Tim Tebow is looking more like an actual baseball player for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies than a glorified PR stunt.
Things had steadily been declining for Tebow in Double-A baseball after a raucous debut.
A 3-run home run off the first pitch he saw in Double-A ball.
Tim Tebow is settling in nicely with the @RumblePoniesBB. (via @PastrickSean) pic.twitter.com/eDmBUu9njH
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 6, 2018
After he blasted a three-run home run in his very first at-bat for the Rumble Ponies, Tebow began to look overwhelmed at the plate as he struggled to adjust to Double-A pitching. Tebow proceeded to go a frigid 1-for-14 following the home run, with eight strikeouts and zero walks.
Naturally, this drew some of his harshest critics out of the woodworks.
“Tim Tebow Update: Yikes,” read one headline at The Big Lead.
“See ball, hit ball has become a challenge for Tim Tebow,” reads another article, this time from 247 Sports.
Everyone was ready to call Tebow a failure and jettison him off to be the quarterback for the Alliance of American Football’s Orlando team.
Now? Those critics are a little harder to come by.
That’s because Tebow has rebounded handsomely from his atrocious start, notching five hits in his last four games.
And Tebow’s not just making contact and getting lucky. He’s flashing some power, and seems to be finding some consistency with doubles.
That's three doubles in two games for @TimTebow.@Mets @RumblePoniesBB
WATCH: https://t.co/jjZLsoUI3S pic.twitter.com/dmvecxQ63V— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) April 18, 2018
Tebow’s recent hot streak has catapulted his batting average. At his lowest, Tebow was hitting a meager .133 at the plate. Now, he’s batting a much more respectable .241, which is actually a career high.
In fairness, and Tebow would likely be the first to agree, there is still much room for improvement. He hasn’t launched a home run since his very first Double-A at-bat and is still striking out far too often.
But a four-game hit streak is still a four-game hit streak, and it proves that it’s still too early to make any final calls on Tebow’s baseball career.
Besides, he has only 27 more games to go to set the minor league baseball record for hits in consecutive contests.
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