PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - New York Mets fans can buy a few jerseys featuring names of players in the team's instructional league.
Cespedes jerseys, they're big sellers.
Cone jerseys, available as throwbacks.
Of course, those are for Yoenis Cespedes and David Cone, and not the instructional leaguers - Ricardo Cespedes and Gene Cone. No, the only of the 58 players getting a spotlight in this camp with the Mets is Tim Tebow, the quarterback-turned-baseball-hopeful whose No. 15 jersey is already a hot seller even though he has yet to take one professional at-bat.
The Mets are cashing in already, and Tebow has a book coming out next month. Yet both the team and its new star-of-sorts insist this is no publicity stunt, even though the odds seem stacked very high against a 29-year-old former football player finding his way to the major leagues.
''The good thing is that I don't have to say anything,'' Tebow said when asked what he would say to those who think it is a stunt. ''I don't.''
Day 2 of the Tebow experiment with the Mets comes Tuesday, when he returns to the minor league complex in Port St. Lucie for more running, throwing, catching and hitting.
Mets manager Terry Collins said the debut workout was well-received.
''I heard about it,'' Collins said Monday in New York. ''I called down. I called down. I wanted to wait 'til the crowd had finally left before I called. But they said it was pretty interesting. He said he was in tremendous shape.''
The Mets' website listed the $119.99 jerseys and $29.99 T-shirts as top sellers Monday, and some of the hundreds of fans who turned out on a steamy day on Florida's Treasure Coast were asking where they could get their own items with Tebow's name and number on the back.
''I heard that was something that they might be selling. What do I think about it? It's cool,'' Tebow said.