will play in the majors this season.Tebow is listed at +160 to make the majors this season Bradley Zimmer Jersey , giving him a 38.3% chance, according to the odds.The 30-year-old former Heisman Trophy winner has a .730 OPS in Double-A this season.Last April, rookie outfielder Tim Tebow dug in for his first at-bat for the Columbia Fireflies. I remember it very well because I was working for Minor League Baseball at the time. He was facing San Francisco Giants prospect Domenic Mazza (the 666th pick of the 2015 draft), and my boss was not amused.“There’s only one thing he can do here to ruin our night,” he said. “And quite possibly our lives.”The ex-Florida Gators quarterback did just that by taking Mazza 鈥?who ended up throwing a perfect game later in the month 鈥?deep to left-center field for a home run.Download The Action Network App to get real-time MLB odds and track all of your baseball bets.When the Mets signed Tebow in late 2016, it was derided as a jersey-selling publicity stunt. That is still the case, but some 15 months after the most famous minor-league dinger since Crash Davis set the record with his 247th career homer for the Asheville Tourists, things are getting quite real.One book has odds up on whether Tebow will play an MLB game in 2018. They list Yes at +160 Brandon Guyer Jersey , which gives him an implied probability of 38.3%, and No at -180 (61.6%). Before the season, a prop that offered 6-1 odds for betting on the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner to make it to the majors by the end of 2019.Since I’m being told I need to break this bet down by the powers that be, here goes it.Tebow’s numbers with the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies aren’t all that embarrassing. He’s slashing .271/.332/.398 with six homers and 36 RBI in 295 plate appearances. While those numbers aren’t bad 鈥?in fact, they earned him a spot in the Double-A All-Star Game 鈥?the former Denver Bronco has struck out in 35% of his trips to the dish this year. Yowza.To his credit, Tebow has improved on his numbers from 2017, when he slashed .226/.309/.347 with 24 doubles, eight homers and 52 RBIs in 486 plate appearances.Sign up for The Action Network’s daily newsletter to the best sports betting content delivered into your inbox each morning.However http://www.indiansfanproshop.com/authentic-b.j.-upton-jersey , the bigger part of this bet is the franchise that currently employs the sometimes missionary, sometimes football analyst and current minor-league outfielder?the New York Mets. The Mets are currently 39-55 and have a worse record than the Miami Marlins.They’ve made fools of themselves on several occasions this season to the point where calling up Tebow in September, when rosters expand to 40 and the minor-league season ends, would be like the 10th-most embarrassing thing the Amazins have done in 2018. CHICAGO (AP) — The sputtering New York Yankees got some good news Monday when left-hander J.A. Happ moved a little closer to returning from hand, foot and mouth disease.Manager Aaron Boone said Happ is no longer contagious. Assuming everything goes well over the next couple of days, Happ is on track to start Thursday against Texas in the opener of an 11-game homestand.“He’s out of the woods, virus-wise,” Boone said before New York’s game against the Chicago White Sox.Happ came over in a July 26 trade with Toronto for infielder Brandon Drury and minor league outfielder Billy McKinney. He pitched six crisp innings in a win against Kansas City in his New York debut Josh Tomlin Jersey , but the illness took him out of a critical four-game series in Boston and the Yankees were swept by the major league-leading Red Sox.Happ, who turns 36 in October, is 11-6 with a 4.05 ERA in 21 starts this year.The wild card-leading Yankees arrived in Chicago early Monday morning after a difficult 5-4 loss at Fenway Park. New York carried a 4-1 lead into the ninth, but Boston rallied against All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Benintendi hit a game-ending RBI single off Jonathan Holder in the 10th.They responded with a 7-0 victory against the White Sox, stopping a season-high five-game slide. They improved to 16-15 in their last 31 games.“Look, we know we’re really good,” Boone said, “and the guys I don’t think have any doubt in there. I think Carlos Carrasco Jersey , to a man, they understand what we’re capable of.”Miguel Andujar served as the designated hitter a day after he committed two errors against Boston, running the total for the rookie third baseman to 10 in 92 games in the field. But Boone said he had planned on starting Neil Walker at third for the opener against the White Sox.“Miguel I feel like is equipped to deal with the successes and failures that you inevitably have up here, so I don’t worry about putting him back out there,” Boone said before the win.
