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- Updated: December 7, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — When the Mets decided to ship Tim Tebow out to the Arizona Fall League in October, they did so fully believing he was “overmatched” — general manager Sandy Alderson’s word — by the competition there. But the Mets sent him anyway because they believed if Tebow were to succeed at age 29, his crash course in baseball would need to include as many actual games as possible.
With that in mind, the Mets are all but certain to assign Tebow to Minor League camp this February — not to big league Spring Training, where the lights and attention would be brighter. But the Mets do plan to borrow Tebow from the Minors on a regular basis, giving him exposure to Major League pitching in Grapefruit League games.
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“We understand he’s a little bit older so the process needs to accelerate at some point,” Alderson said. “But we still need to be prudent about it, and put him in situations where he can succeed, and not be viewed as a — I was going to say ‘circus animal,’ but …
