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Tim Tebow rates 'chance' to reach majors, Mets hitting coach Kevin Long says

Some fans probably think Tim Tebow should be in the Mets' opening day lineup next season. Those people are irrational.

It's not irrational to say Tebow could, in a year or two, make himself a serviceable baseball player. Count Mets hitting coach Kevin Long in that camp.

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“He’s put together like no other athlete I’ve ever seen,” Long said Wednesday in an interview with Indianapolis radio host and ESPN college basketball analyst Dan Dakich. “He’s got a lot of work to do, he understands that.