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Mets players weigh in on Tebow signing
- Updated: September 10, 2016
ATLANTA — Like most fans, Mets players found out about Tim Tebow’s signing with the organization via news coverage, friends and family members. They absorbed it, collectively shrugged, then moved on to Friday night’s opener against the Braves.
“What are there, 300 other Minor League guys that are there? Probably more than that,” outfielder Jay Bruce said of the Mets’ system. “I don’t even know. I don’t particularly care — nothing against or for [Tebow]. He’s become a number at this point. There are a lot of other guys there working and trying to get to the Major Leagues. Now he will be as well, and we’ll see what happens.”
A day after Tebow’s signing to a Minor League deal, general manager Sandy Alderson went out of his way to stress that the idea was his alone — not something stemming from ownership or other corners of the front office. Alderson recalled his own experience in 2007 when, as Padres CEO, he signed former Marine Cooper Brannan, who had sustained wounds to his left hand during duty in Iraq.
“I don’t put that in the same category as this one, but my response would be the same, which is, ‘Why not?'” Alderson said. “From …
