Tim Tebow has been a huge draw in the Mets minor league system.
His games with Single-A Columbus draw hordes of fans, all hoping to see something they have never seen before – like a 29-year-old former NFL quarterback trying to break into a sport he hasn’t played in more than a decade.
It hasn’t happened often in a statistically mediocre season for the Heisman Trophy winner – he’s batting .228 with 63 strikeouts in 197 at-bats – but on occasion, Tebow still amazes. This time, he did so in the midst of one of those strikeouts.
During an at-bat Saturday night against the Yankees’ Single-A affiliate, Tebow flung his bat into the stands with a ferocity he used to reserve for heaving passes downfield.
Tebow cleared the entire field-level section and sent the bat several rows deep into the next section up, meaning for what it lacked in a tight spiral, it had some distance.
He then grabbed a new bat and followed up his hammer throw with a strikeout.
So, while it may not have been like hitting a home run in his first minor league at-bat or turning an errant throw into a souvenir, Tebow still knows how to give the fans something new.


