Since returning from the disabled list, Jose Tabata has been the Pittsburgh Pirates best hitter. He has 12 hits in 29 at bats with 2 doubles, a triple, a home run, and 3 walks. That's good for a .414/.469/.655 triple-slash line.
Here's his spray chart for the 7 games he's played in since returning from his injury:
These are the locations for the pitches he has swung at; you can see that Tabata is really working the counts to get the pitches he likes. There's a lot of stuff right where a hitter likes it, and he's taking advantage of it.
And here are the pitch types and information for what the pitchers he's been facing are giving him. He's doing a great job against the fastball and really not missing any of them (whiffing only 2% of the time).
Tabata is absolutely on fire and it has come at a great time, right after he was extended for 6 years. This is the kind of player that he can be all the time (he's not going to hit .414, but you get it), and it would be a huge boost for this franchise if he could turn into the all-star that he has the potential to become in the next 5-10 years.
