With Jerry Sands’ demotion earlier this week, it became pretty clear that Jose Tabata will start 2013 out in Pittsburgh, most likely as Travis Snider’s primary backup/platoon partner in right field. Tabata’s only 24, but this is almost certainly his last chance to play regularly for for the Pirates. If he can’t hack it in the early part of this season, Sands will be at Triple-A waiting to relieve him and Tabata will probably be ignominiously non-tendered or appended as an inconsequential throw-in in a trade to some other poor Neal-Huntington-in-2008-type sap, loading up on ex-blue chip prospects to try and accelerate his club’s rebuilding process. Tabata is on fire this spring, with four doubles and a home run in 26 at-bats. People are raving about his conditioning
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Is there any upside left to Jose Tabata?
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