Tim Tebow’s promotion is all about money—and the money trail ends at Citi Field.
You can look for a more polarizing active professional athlete than Timothy Richard Tebow, but you won’t find one.
So it came as no surprise that the news of his recent promotion to the St. Lucie Mets, New York’s High-A minor league affiliate in the Florida Gulf Coast League, was met with a fair amount of ridicule.
After all, Tebow, 29, had done anything but crush opposing pitchers with Single-A Columbia. Over 64 games in the South Atlantic League, the 29-year-old hit just .