That's what winning teams do - communicate, help each other. There's not selfishness here. Even if I got an out, I'm going to tell my teammates coming back, 'This guy has this and this. The ball does this.' So my teammate can be ready for whatever. That's what makes teams on another level - a winning team.
A prime example of the Padres excelling at this was on Sunday, when Jake Cronenworth saw three sliders from Mets closer Edwin Diaz... It was on his way back to the dugout when Cronenworth told Jackson Merrill that the slider wasn't moving. Merrill got a hold of a slider that did not break very much and hung in the center of the strike zone sending it out of the park for a walk-off home run.
Peralta has played for the Dodgers, Diamondbacks, and Tampa Bay Rays during his career and says the Padres are 'a lot more' committed to sharing scouting information in-game than any team he has been on.
The team nipping at the Dodgers' heels in the division standings has been using this form of scouting all season to the point where it is second-nature.
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