Tim Tebow gave it his all on the diamond but the reaction from scouts was decidedly mixed.
The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback went through the gauntlet in his first baseball workout while scouts from multiple teams, including the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Boston Red Sox, watched his display with varying levels of interest.
The general feeling among scouts was that Tebow, who hasn't played baseball since high school, showed off some skills but did nothing spectacular.
"I thought he was OK. Better than I expected, to be honest," one anonymous scout told Bob Nightengale of USA Today. "For not having played as long as he had, I thought he did OK."
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Where Tebow did impress was at the plate. The 29-year-old hit one home run against pitchers David Aardsma and Chad Smith, and even hit a curveball off the wall. At least one scout gave Tebow's power an "80" grade on the 20-80 scout scale and called his "raw power ... irreplaceable," according to Scout.com's Taylor Blake Ward, though another from an American League team placed him at 60.
Scouts, however, seemed somewhat unimpressed by Tebow's defensive skills. One scout, according to Scott Miller of Bleacher Report, graded his arm as a 40 on the 20-80 scouting scale; another gave him a 30.
Watch: Tebow's 1st pro baseball workout
"He looked like an actor trying to portray a baseball player," an anonymous scout told Nightengale, in what was one of the most scathing critiques of Tebow's baseball skills.
Tebow's representatives told Ward that at least five or six teams have expressed some level of interest in signing him. He already has one offer of employment from a winter-league team in Venezuela.
