Tim Tebow homers in first High-A game and passes Michael Jordan

Tebow went deep in his first game at his new level.

Tim Tebow is not a good minor league baseball player. He just posted a .648 OPS in 64 Low-A ball despite being eight years older than the average player in that league, but the Mets decided to promote him anyway to High-A Port St. Lucie. The former Florida star and NFL famous person was probably not promoted on the merits. I know, objectively, that Tebow is not en route to a prosperous major league career.

But we’re alway going to have these moments:

That’s Tebow going deep on Wednesday night for Port St. Lucie, his fourth home run of the year and his first in High-A — coming in his very first game at his new level. It’s worth pointing out, as our Florida blog did, that Tebow’s four bombs this season give him more than Michael Jordan’s three during his 1994 foray into professional baseball.

(But, Jordan was playing in Double-A the whole time, a devout Bulls fan might say. But, he was also two years older than Tebow at the time, I might retort, if we wanted to argue about this, which we do not. The facts are merely the facts.)

Tebow is not going to be Mike Trout, but it takes extraordinary athletic ability to hit four home runs as a 29-year-old in A ball. I’m not even kidding; baseball’s really hard, and Tebow has demonstrated that he’s better at it than the vast majority of baseball-playing humans in our world. Good for him for going deep.