Dodgers News: David Peralta Shares What He Learned Right Away Joining LA After Years as the Enemy
When you change companies after a long time, there's a sense of unfamiliarity and uneasiness that may hang over you.
Sure, you may know what to do, but as far as how your new place of employment does things? That may take an adjustment.
For Dodgers left fielder David Peralta, acquired before this season after nine fruitful years with the Arizona Diamondbacks, he got right to work in his new surroundings, hitting to the tune of a .726 OPS with seven home runs and 45 RBI, but he quickly figured out just how different things were in Los Angeles -- a significant question of his after plying his trade in the desert for so many years.
“Let me tell you something, I was on the other side for long time playing against this team,’’ said Peralta, who spent the first nine years of his career with the Diamondbacks. “I was always wondering, 'The way they go about their business, how do they do it? What they so successful? Why do they do everything so good?'"
As for the answer to his query, it proved to be a simple one, but it's a mentality that can break otherwise great teams if they don't have it.
“The moment I walked into the clubhouse in spring training, you feel comfortable, and you start tapping into the culture and everything here. There’s no selfishness. Everyone is together. There’s so much energy. It’s about how are we going to work as a team to win?’
'You hear stories on other teams, teams with all of the talent in the world, but they have a lot of egos. They don’t like each other. And you can see it by the way they play.
'We’re just the opposite.’’
via USA Today
So far, Peralta has proven himself to be a top employee in his new workplace -- including hitting a 2-RBI single to sink his old team in the city he'd made his home for so many years just last week.
And now he'll try to keep up his performance as both he and the Dodgers try to lock up the NL West and, potentially, make a deep run in the postseason.
