Tim Tebow turns to Daniel Murphy as a baseball mentor

Getting ready for his first professional spring training experience, Tim Tebow has turned to a former New York Met for guidance.

Current Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy spent seven years in New York and Tebow says the two are “next-door neighbors” in Jacksonville.

“It’s not that we talk that much about the Mets organization, although they have been great to both of us,” Tebow told The New York Post at Super Bowl LI festivities in Houston. “It’s just about the pursuit of baseball, the ins and outs.

"He is a total analyst of the game and works like crazy. For us, it’s been going over the little things over and over and over again. Talking pitches, out of the hand, how we’re picking stuff up. That’s what Daniel does that’s such a different level.”

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Murphy finished second in National League MVP voting in 2016, batting .347 with 24 home runs and 104 RBI – all career-highs.

Tebow said he has also worked with former major league outfielder Gary Sheffield and current Mets hitting coach Kevin Long.

The 29-year-old former Heisman Trophy winner was not invited to Mets' major league camp, but manager Terry Collins has said that he wants to get Tebow involved with the team.

“I certainly hope we’ll see Tim Tebow in some of our games," Collins said in December at the Winter Meetings. “If he’s not in our camp, I’ll get him over."

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