Donavan Tate's career has taken another pit stop. The Padres' outfielder, taken No. 3 overall in 2009, will not report to spring training on Friday for "personal reasons."

That's as much as Padres VP of player development Randy Smith would divulge during Thursday's announcement.

"There's Donavan the ballplayer and Donavan the person," Smith said. "He needs to work on one before he can work on the other."