Mets promote Tebow to Double-A Binghamton

NEW YORK » Tim Tebow has been promoted to Double-A after going 1 for 18 with 11 strikeouts in big league spring training for the New York Mets.

The Mets said Wednesday that the outfielder has been assigned to start the season at Binghamton of the Eastern League. The Rumble Ponies open their season at home on April 5 against Portland.

The 30-year-old Tebow, a former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback, split last season between a pair of Class A teams, Columbia, South Carolina, and St. Lucie. He hit .226 with eight homers and 52 RBIs in 126 games.

Tebow, who is not on the Mets’ 40-man major league roster, was hampered during spring training by a left ankle sprain. FOXBOROUGH, MASS. » A second suspect charged in connection with a burglary at New England Patriots player Rob Gronkowski’s Massachusetts home has been arraigned.

Eric Tyrrell, of Foxborough, was held on $1,000 bail Wednesday after pleading not guilty in Wrentham District Court to two counts of receiving stolen property.

Prosecutors say Tyrrell sold rare coins that had been stolen from one of Gronkowski’s roommates. Court records show nothing belonging to Gronkowski was stolen.

The Foxborough house was burglarized in February while the team was in Minnesota to play the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. Authorities have recovered an Apple watch, a Rolex watch and the coins.

Tyrrell’s attorney says there’s no evidence his client was present during the break-in.