Tim Tebow indicates signs of life like a baseball player within his second year within the Mets’ minor-league system. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner had improved significantly using the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, batting .273 with six home runs through 84 games and in many cases earning some only-slightly-dubious Eastern League All-Star honors within the process.

But he won’t have a chance to make MLB The Show 18 Stubs on that in August and September. A broken hamate bone will probably end the burly left fielder’s season and extinguish any slight chance he’d had for a late-season promotion to AAA or older.

What can this mean for Tebow?

Tebow could happen to be a late-season callup thanks towards the Mets’ inept 2018. New York currently sits in last place within the NL East — behind perhaps the fire sale Miami Marlins — that has a 40-56 record. They just traded away their top reliever for pennies within the dollar. One of these starting pitchers is currently for the disabled list with hand, foot, and mouth disease.

So, huh, nothing the Mets do is likely to ruin the integrity of an season that’s already in freefall. If Tebow kept plugging — and that he was batting .297 in the last 10 games ahead of the injury — there’s a non-negligible operate a franchise struggling for positive headlines can have called him nearly struggle for 10 games to shut out a meaningless year. Except that last-ditch option is away from the table.

The nice thing about it for Tebow is his injury is usually a fairly common one inch MLB circles. According to former Marlins infielder Jeff Baker, it’s on the list of better broken bones to deal with from the hand/wrist area:

“I’ve seen guys ever coming back anywhere from 2 1/2 weeks to 6 weeks,” Baker said. “I had surgery. The biggest thing is you contain the wound heal. After that, it’s annoying tolerance thing, therefore you’re good to visit.”

”You must have it removed,” Baker said. “They take out. There is not any strengthening, no therapy. I don’t say this lightly, but when you’re likely to break something with your hand, the hamate is going for being the way to search.”

The bone rests with the base in the hand — right where Tebow’s bottom hand can be while holding a MLB 18 Stubs bat. He’ll likely contain the bone removed before undergoing a four-to-six week recovery.

Giancarlo Stanton, notably, suffered a broken hamate way back in 2015, ending his season after 74 games. Though he’d struggle in 2016, he’d return in the major way by 2017 when he won NL MVP honors and smashed 59 home runs.

So that’s the top of the bound for Tebow’s return. The lower one gets called up because of the Mets next September and immediately getting rabies.