{"id":107055,"date":"2016-09-08T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107055"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:13:39","slug":"tebow-lands-with-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107055","title":{"rendered":"Tebow lands with Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-107077\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"tebowtimbb\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TebowTimBB.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow (TEE&#8217;-boh) has signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets. The former quarterback, whose deal includes a $100,000 signing bonus, will take part in the Instructional League in Port St. Lucie, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of the signing bonus was obtained by The Associated Press from a person familiar with the contract who spoke on condition of anonymity because the figure was not announced.<\/p>\n<p>Mets&#8217; general manager Sandy Alderson says the club is intrigued by, &#8220;the potential Tim has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tebow won the 2007 Heisman Trophy at Florida and played on the 2006 and 2008 national championship teams with the Gators.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow played for the Denver Broncos and New York Jets in the NFL from 2010-2012. He was with the New England Patriots in 2013 preseason and Philadelphia Eagles in the 2015 preseason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow (TEE&#8217;-boh) has signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets. The former quarterback, whose deal includes a $100,000 signing bonus, will take part in the Instructional League in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The amount of the signing bonus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107079,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107055\/revisions\/107079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}