NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — In his suite here at the Gaylord National, Sandy Alderson stood, smirked and fielded a fair question from a reporter:
Would there be any benefit for the Mets to put baseball neophyte Tim Tebow in their major league spring training, as opposed to placing him in their minor league camp and sending him over to Tradition Field for a handful of Grapefruit League contests?
“No,” the Mets’ general manager said. Then came the proper pause for full comic effect. And then: “Except for advertising purposes.”
The Mets have gone pedal-to-the-metal on the questionable enterprise of turning the Heisman Trophy winner Tebow into a ballplayer.